holy shit it just dawned on me that temperature in centigrade means graduated (grade) in 100 (centi) steps, jesus fuck I am dumb
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but like 38 years to have any neurons consider the etymology of that word seems a little extreme
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enh, it's not like they didn't have a couple other things to distract them in the meantime i'm always randomly unpacking etymologies that are obvious when you think about them, they're everywhere also randomly generating totally inaccurate folk etymologies
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oh sure I mean etymology unpacking is awesome and fun, but I rarely just like literally slap myself on the head when I figure one out.
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yeah, i think that one is more headslappy because it's part of a context where technicalized piecewise word assembly is normal, but just far enough off the most common conventions that you don't necessarily notice the seams
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