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Today, my etymological doublet series is coming to an end with an episode on German, on request of several people.
The orange German words on the right have the same origin as the blue ones on the right, but they took a very different path.
Many of the examples are courtesy of Matthieu Pierens.
![Comic. [Top panel: Long-necked dinosaur with red X over it.] [Bottom panel: two smaller dinosaurs the same shape except their neck isn’t long, while in the background there’s an extremely long neck criss-crossing the frame like a snake. Green check mark in center.] [caption] Thanks to modern paleontological reconstructions, we now know that most sauropods had short necks, and all those extra vertebrae belonged to the sauropod colony’s queen.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigjcepbb3hjlvpjzmj6msuydmem6gdakkl5svr4kh4q7qi3c4m2fu@jpeg)
Comic. [Top panel: Long-necked dinosaur with red X over it.] [Bottom panel: two smaller dinosaurs the same shape except their neck isn’t long, while in the background there’s an extremely long neck criss-crossing the frame like a snake. Green check mark in center.] [caption] Thanks to modern paleontological reconstructions, we now know that most sauropods had short necks, and all those extra vertebrae belonged to the sauropod colony’s queen.
Sauropods
xkcd.com/3185/
Stones. On an asteroid. The view is distorted because of the camera lens. The bright splotch at the top is the Sun. Honestly this looks like a riverbed.
This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid
It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid
By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox
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The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour.
While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.
Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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How exciting!
CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.
CRISPR has so many applications.
🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The enabling crooked lawyers for past 50 years in Washington and beyond.
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This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.
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Comic. [Two people in a hot air balloon] PERSON 1: 0 mph... 0 mph... Ooh, 1 mph with that last gust... 0 mph... 1 mph... 1 mph... *2 mph!!!* PERSON 2: *Yessss!* [caption] Breaking the hot air balloon level-flight airspeed record
Airspeed
xkcd.com/3161/
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