yo I just found out "male" and "female" might not be etymologically related and it's fucking me up
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literally did not know this thank you
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You probably already know this but the etymological roots of the word barbarian are very weird/funny
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this one i actually knew lol
The scholarly version is so dry, it’s kind of wonderful in an odd way that racist Greeks thousands of years ago, mocking how foreigners talked, has come down to modern language unchanged
It’s like if I called Norwegians Ingabingaians and people still used it in the year 4000
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