Wizard originally meant a wise or learned person

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as an older Australian (60) it was used in my youth by older people to mean very good at eg “they are a wizard at maths”. I haven’t heard it being used for decades though.

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• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like that the bottom one is standing in a town in Skyrim, a world that also has the spell casting kind of wizards.

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As someone currently actively modding Skyrim, your Skyrim will not look like that unless you’re applying, at minimum, 2 Gbs of mods and modding utility programs. Not least to change the architecture of a town. And to make the stone textures not look like pixelly mud, and the mud textures not look like pixelly shit.

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• karashta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The ending “ard” meant being in a specified condition.

  Coward- in an easily cowed condition, Dullard- in a dull condition, Drunkard- in a drunk condition, Wizard- in a wise condition

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  • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh no someone Shard my pants

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  • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What about bastard?

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    • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bastard is ‘having been conceived on a bast’, old French word for ‘saddle’. I take it to mean something like not having been conceived at home with the usual suspect (the wife) but elsewhere.

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    • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bass - born in fishy circumstances

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  • TacticalToothbrush@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bard

    Bee

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    • NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Board

      Image

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks, I love me some entomology facts

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  • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks, I love me some etymology facts :3

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