Encyclopedia Briannica

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Encyclopedia Briannica: Speak volumes. You'll find sentences without judgment here. Technical Writer/Editor and Historical Linguist. she/her
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Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaJun 14
@cwwilkie I watched a couple seasons - started with the original Japanese one. Canada, England, Ireland, Nigeria. It's an odd thing. Turns into a lot of people hurting themselves for comedy or catching people who let their guard down after a failed planned joke. What does it make you think about?
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaJun 9
@mandatory Hi! No I don't. The closest I can think of is a book called Dictionary of Proverbs by Delfin Carbonell Bassett that has idioms in English and Spanish. Idiom dictionaries between English and another language are pretty common, but are not really compiled together except for listicles. The eggcorn database shows how people mis-hear English idioms: https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ Snowclones aren't quite idioms but memey English phrases with room for variables: https://snowclones.org/. (Hope you're doing well, please don't use these for evil.)
The Eggcorn Database

Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
@hugovk Wow! Good catch. It's definitely a syntactic freeze like or "Cease fire!". People still say "Whoa, Nelly" but as an interjection to tell people to stop or slow down. It's definitely worth adding WHOW BALL to the list, reminds me to look for other milkmaid terns. I'll let future curators decide where they draw the line on entries like these. Thanks!
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
@hugovk !! I'll add it to the list! I've found 2 modern nonce examples describing this tool with animal variants: scare-shark and scare-elephant, and then the historical variants of fray-boggard, fray-bug, flay-crake, gally-beggar, scare-beggar, gally-crow, fear-crow. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching
Encyclopedia BriannicaApr 7
Hugo van KemenadeApr 7

@E_Briannica
New #CutthroatCompound: Scatterbird

"The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers."

It's a scarecrow!

https://portek.co.uk/product/scatterbird-mark-4-birdscaring-gas-gun/

Scatterbird MK4 Birdscaring Gas Gun - Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products

Designed and developed to incorporate ALL the features requested by farmers over the past 35 years. The Scatterbird MK4 is the next generation of gas powered bird scarers. Like it’s predecessor, the Scatterbird MK4 is a sturdy, purpose built bird scaring gas gun designed specifically to meet the needs of the farmer. The Scatterbird range has for many years set the industry standard for durability.

Portek Birdscaring and Agricultural Products
Encyclopedia BriannicaNov 17, 2024

Hello hello, I'm still here but I'm also now on Blue Sky as E-Briannica.

Hope you got to pet an animal today.

Ok that's all bye for now.

Encyclopedia BriannicaNov 3, 2024
Today I learnedNov 3, 2024

TIL: IKEA has its own "dictionary" where the quirky product names are actually derived from Swedish words, places, and categories.

https://lar5.com/ikea/index.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1givulu/til_ikea_has_its_own_dictionary_where_the_quirky/

The IKEA Dictionary

Encyclopedia BriannicaOct 30, 2024
Today I learned that the Beanie Babies founder was Ty Warner, so that’s why the tags said ❤️ty, and that it’s not short for anything - he was named after Ty Cobb (but Ty Cobb’s full name was Tyrus Raymond Cobb).
Show threadEncyclopedia BriannicaOct 27, 2024
@actuallyautistic @redsad Good luck! Don’t stop everything you’d normally do. Build in quiet time separations - parallel play in the same room is good but I need genuine nobody-is-perceiving-me time every day or i burn out from Hosting Mode Mask.
Encyclopedia BriannicaOct 26, 2024
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024

Short reminder: Tonight, Europe switches from DST back to regular time. The US will not switch until *next* weekend.

So check your calendars whether regular appointments have suddenly moved. Everything scheduled in European time will be 1 hour later for US folks, everything scheduled in US time will be one hour earlier for Europe folks.