UnverifiedAPK

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[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blame the French actually, they invaded and screwed everything up beyond repair.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing it was someone doing translations, getting confused, playing it safe, and accidentally recreating Old English.

This is either Chinese or Japanese on the sign. But Japanese derrived from Chinese so both langues have the same origin for a lot of words:

Male 男 is a compound word of Field and Strength.

Woman 女 is a pictogram of a woman with breasts kneeling. A bit easier to see in the non-modern symbol. And pretty blatant when you compare it to the modern symbol for mother 母 which is taking the old symbol and adding two nipples.

So nothing in the original language for this translation error to make sense.

But English has roots for "feman" to technically make sense. In Old English there used to be "man" meaning "person" and "wif" meaning "female". This turned in to "wifman" meaning woman. Recently "wif" turned into "wife" and "wifman" turned in to "woman".

In their language there are two distinct words for "woman" and "man" so when they got "male" for 男 they went "ok cool now on to 女", and got "female". Now that's basically the same word... So they backed up and retranslated 男 to "man"... Then got "woman" for 女.

Now pretty unsure they looked up "man" and got that it could just mean "person". Then they put "male" "man" for male person. Then they got really confused and instead of "female" "man" for "female person" they cut out the "male" and put "fe" "man" essentially re-inventing the word "wifman".

And finally somewhere along the way they found out about prefixes which fe- kinda acts like so that's why there's a space in "male man" and no space in "feman"

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is listening to the radio still popular in Sweden or is it dying off like in the US?

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

/c/ThatsTheJoke

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Workout for 45 minutes at any point before 6pm

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

3am is an "ungodly hour" no matter your sleep schedule

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wasn't France dropped by the USA for Australia two years ago?

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You fly to cities/airports, not countries. There's no way people are screwing that up.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Because algae is an ecological nightmare. OP doesn't know what they're suggesting.

  • For it to grow you need an excess of something like nitrogen in your water supply

  • It's nearly impossible to cull

  • It is commonly toxic

  • If the bloom is big enough it will block all sunlight from entering the water. Killing off everything else that makes oxygen in the water. Algea releases oxygen into the air so everything in the water will use the remaining oxygen and suffocate.

  • If a bloom dies, the microbes that decompose it use more oxygen than the algae gives off in the first place. Again suffocating fish and anything else in that water.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nah, competitive Pokemon requires like 3 of the modern games.

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

/b/ is general

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