(Not actually a shower thought, saw an old document that labeled it air-port.)
I’ve found this community can be nasty about word breakdowns, but I’m posting it anyway. Be better.
Dog food is food for a dog. Wtf is this?
An airport is an air-port. A port via the air.
Submitted 4 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Be better.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
peanut butter is butter made from peanuts
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I once saw sweet n sour sauce in a French supermarket, “sauce aigre-doux”
I looked up aigre to see what it meant and right enough, it just means sour.
At that point it clicked that French for wine is “vin” so sour wine is vin aigre
Or vinegar
Plum@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I had the same kind of brain fart shower thought about the refrigerator brand Frigidaire.
Frigid+air
The air is cold.
I was in my 30s.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Then the word alphabet comes from _alpha_and beta, the first two letters of the Greek writing system.
If we had gotten the word directly from the Phoenicians instead, we might probably call it alephbeth instead.Just a couple of nights ago it suddenly hit me that the word geometry comes from Geo: Earth and metron: measure.
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Algebra is an Arabic word Al-gebra Presummably it translates to “The Pain”
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You are going to hate Trigonometry and Calculus
whostosay@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve never felt more like the smartest dumbass for realizing one on my own.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I live in Phoenix, our airport is called sky harbor…
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
Pretty sure they did that on purpose
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No shit?
lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
wait until you find out about USB port
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You mean how you plug it in, oops wrong way…flip it…no, right the first time, flip it again, ah, there it goes!
Even USB-C
Batbro@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
USB-c? Buddy, that might be a you problem
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
USB-Aggravating.
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Or the washing machine.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And why isn’t a train station called a rail port?
Missed opportunity to keep it all tidily labeled similarly, if you ask me.Plopp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Train station and bus station. Why isn’t it called boat station and plane station?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Because a station is a place you pull up to an leave going the same direction, and a port is a place you enter and then go back out the same way.
Airplanes come down to a port, then go back up.
Boats come into a port, then back out to sea.
Buses come into a station, then go along their way. Same as trains.
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hmm there is rail yard just like ship yard, though I think they’re used a little differently.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Funnily enough in Russian the word for train station is Vauxhall… spelt Russian. People say that Russian engineers studying in London mistook the name of a specific underground station - Vauxhall - as the generic word for station and imported it into their language before anyone realised the mistake.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
… like a seaport, but for the air, dude. Sea. Air. Dude. <Toking noises>
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TIL
psilotop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I am perfectly WHELMED by this discovery.
Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Here I am calling them air fields.
Of course it’s the folks taking it back to the ancient Greek and calling them aerodromes that are on the real next level.
Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Side note: port isn’t the only terminology aviation has stolen from seafaring. For example: airspeed is measured in knots. Captain, pilot, and first officer were all used aboard ships first as well.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t forget mile high club!
…of coarse, pirates were at sea for months with a boat full of drugs, and no women.
What? You never considered the possibility that old timey pirates were a boat full of gay dudes high off their ass?
Speaking of their asses…
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
Oh! In Dutch they’re called that!
Well, they’re actually called “vliegveld” (/ˈfliːχ.fɛlt/; vlEEh-vElt); vlieg=fly(ing), veld=field. It’s a flying-field!
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Just wait until you realize where the world alphabet comes from.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I just want to say the guy who voices the commercials for Draft Kings Sportsbook has the worst voice I have ever heard.
waz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
After years of learning Spanish my brother pointed out that the word for umbrella, paraguas, is simply “for water”. Similar to how parasol is “for sun”.
So obvious, but somehow my brain missed it.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The reason people are rude about word breakdowns is they assumed you to be a native English speaker, and these should seem obvious.
The internet is full of Americans, unfortunately.
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think it’s the native speakers that don’t break it down. You just take the word as a word.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
See? This is what happens when I assume you to be non-American. When someone assumes me to be an American, I’m apparently also the wrong one.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Our best understanding of neurology is like a blank map. As we grow and learn, we discover places on the map. We discover where the feelings on our fingers grow, and how to imitated the noises we hear. We discover the balance and coordination to walk and run and flip. Each place on the map is connected like pathways through a forest. The more we run along the path, the wider and more permanent it becomes.
The true power of the human mind is the ability of language. We have a superpower, to create an infinite number of sounds and shapes that arbitrarily describe an unlimited set of concepts. There are things we never dreamed of that our grandchildren will name, and it is this capacity to observe, remember, and describe things that has given rise to every great human accomplishment.
You learned the word “airport” as a place on your map. You never needed to connect it to the etymological history of the word, so you never needed to walk those paths. They were always there, which is why it seems obvious to you now, and also why a lot of people have the initial inclination to say “duh, of course.” That’s an expected response.
But we should all appreciate and marvel at the enormity of civilized history that has us here, scribing words on glass and light and copper, sending them instantaneously around the world, to discuss how the place where our flying machines engage in cooperative commerce and transport, how that concept is so mundane that you never even bothered to glance at the constituent words as separate concepts.
This is an amazing world, and we are all marvelous creatures. We are the absolute quintessence of stardust, and our progeny will look back on us as quaint.
Man, these are good drugs.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lucky 10,000