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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 22 Mar 2017
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      Like how the German word for oxygen ("Sauerstoff", i.e. "sour stuff") sounds silly to us even though it's the same as "oxygen"

      2 replies 5 retweets 14 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      "Oxygen" is just "sour stuff" in Greek (or "source of sourness"), bc oxygen gas was discovered through studying acids

      3 replies 5 retweets 15 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      I'm reminded of someone saying Chinese culture was brutal to animals and you can tell bc the word for "animal" is just "thing that moves"

      3 replies 7 retweets 18 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      And I'm like... ok, what do you think "animal" actually means (think "animation")

      4 replies 7 retweets 34 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      English speakers think it's messed up other languages don't distinguish "cow" vs "beef" but it's actually fucked up that we do

      4 replies 4 retweets 42 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      Also interesting which animals we care enough to make that distinction for (we're ok with eating "chicken" rather than "pullet")

      6 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      Anyway it is interesting how strongly people react to this distinction, everything sounds more legitimate with classical roots

      2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      Hence Poul Anderson famously making RL basic science sound like fantasy magic by using Anglo-Saxon roots in "Uncleftish Beholding"

      3 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      But anyway yeah, that's the deal with calling a movie "cerebral" vs calling it "brainy" when that's the exact same thing

      10 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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      What's interesting to me is genre fiction doing this deliberately, to use elevated language to imply something is special without saying how

      3 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017

      Like how a "portal" is a door, and therefore languages primarily based on Latin don't have different words for "portal" and "door"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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          Or how "artifacts" in fantasy games are special somehow and you know that bc of the word "artifact"

          1 reply 4 retweets 11 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 22 Mar 2017
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          When "artifact" just means "thing that was made", so most things you use are artifacts

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        1. Lindsey  🐉 |  ♿‏ @techevangelista 22 Mar 2017
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          tbh the Latin in regular English largely came from French and low/high class distinctions based on classism at time

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