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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted

      "Hippopotamus" literally means "river horse" though https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1316076159315005442 …

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    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 13 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I kinda wanna get the explanation of FIRE CHICKEN and SEA PIG

      3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      At a guess, turkeys are probably "fire chickens" in Chinese because of the bright red heads and necks (It's not like English speakers calling them "turkey-fowl" after the country Turkey even though they don't come from there makes more sense, it's one of those long stories)

      4 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

      The Chinese word for dolphin being "sea pig" is, in fact, just borrowing an alternate (and easier to translate) English word for dolphins, "mereswine"

      11:17 AM - 13 Oct 2020
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        2. Hyza‏ @Hyza87 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          Wooow? Meer Schwein (german: sea pig) are guinea pigs. Sooo confusing.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Jacob Wisner‏ @JacobWisner1 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Hyza87 @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          Because... sailors used to eat them?

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          The word "dolphin" itself is kind of an interesting word "Delphos" in Greek means "womb", hence "adelphos" ("same womb") meaning "sibling" and "philadelphia" meaning "brotherly love" "Delphine" therefore means "has a womb", because dolphins are mammals with uteruses

          1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          So "delphine" itself is one of those terms that entered English to mean being graceful and lissome in a liquid feminine way (especially if you're Kim Stanley Robinson) But technically it just means you have a uterus Ha ha it's a TERF word

          5 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I am...extremely confused by the dolphin/pig association, although amusingly it's apparently not necessarily that far off evolutionary ancestors-wise?

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent

          They make similar squealing noises when they come up for air

          0 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
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        2. Pat Kelley  🐋 #teargas‏ @gritmonger 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          So... the origin of Grampus or Grampus Whale?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @gritmonger @loudpenitent

          Apparently "Grampus" is just the result of someone in English slurring the Latin "grandis piscis" ("big fish")? Look new words can't all be clever

          2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
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        2. Kristjan Wager‏ @kriswager 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          Funny thing, Danes use "marsvin" (mereswine) for porpoises ... and for guinea pigs. I have never figured out why Danish uses the same word for two very different animals

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Oct 2020
          Replying to @kriswager @loudpenitent

          Arthur Chu Retweeted Arthur Chu

          https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1316082307707535360?s=19 …

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          Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
          Replying to @tamamonomog @loudpenitent
          Yeah, that's definitely weird considering guinea pigs aren't, you know, in any sense aquatic Wikipedia says they were named "Meerschweinchen" because their little squealing noises sounded more like dolphin speech than pig grunts, at least to Germans
          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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