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Just been told the Latin for diver is "urinator", and I can't help but feel someone is taking the piss
Jul 4, 2023 at 8:26amWeb
Show threadAdmiral BademeisterJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips Interesting. Maybe something to do with diver's diuresis? 😄
Show threadJim CampbellJul 4, 2023

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The 'romance' languages are related and French for 'swimming pool' is 'la piss-in' (sp?).

Show threadDeterioratedStuccoJul 4, 2023
@JustJimWillDo @DreadShips
'la piscine', Latin root nominally related to fish but more closely to swimming.
Show threadxsv (mode: mixed)Jul 4, 2023
@DreadShips https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/urinator#Etymology_2 I mean, yes, its related in a way
urinator - Wiktionary

Show threadTHRILLHOJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips Latin for baker is "pistor", which as far as I'm concerned just extracts the urine
Show threadDeterioratedStuccoJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips
Probably @doot. They generally do.
Show threadRob AbramJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips
Reading Patrick O‘Brian's "Treason's Harbour", by any chance?
Show threadDreadnought HolidayJul 4, 2023
@robabram funnily enough, no - been a couple of years since I last did
Show threadDr Jo KershawJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips there's a joke about this in Patrick O'Brian, because of course there is.
Show threadDreadnought HolidayJul 4, 2023
@mthr_jo I'd completely forgotten it, but glad to see I'm treading in the footsteps of giants
Show threadadbJul 4, 2023
@DreadShips That was covered by O'Brian in the passage where Maturin obtains some diving gear and takes a look underwater after proudly announcing to Aubrey that he's a urinator.