ScrollerBall
@ScrollerBall@lemmy.world
- Comment on A secret is something you keep, whilst a surprise is something you give. 2 months ago:
I think you need to add in the concept of ‘confidental’ as well to this. Your address isn’t a secret, but you don’t tell somone on the internet, even a ‘friend’ on the internet where you live.
- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 3 months ago:
You got a link to your source on that?
Merriam-webster says mousquet came from the Old Italian moschetto meaning a small artillery piece. It’s also a term for a male sparrow hawk. Which there was a traditio of naming weapons after animals.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musket
The Wikipedia page for musketeer says this:
The Musketeers of the Guard were a junior unit, initially of roughly company strength, of the military branch of the Royal Household. They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the “carabiniers”, created by Louis’ father Henry IV) with muskets.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer
So the term Musketeer comes from the fact that they are armed with muskets. I cant find anything about a mousquet being a place on the belt to hold stuff.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 months ago:
Melancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
- Comment on Elevated 6 months ago:
- Comment on That would be cool if movie theatres had VR headsets that I could wear and it would provide closed caption subtitles. 7 months ago:
It’s not VR, but there’s this: www.regmovies.com/sony-access-systems
- Comment on Fun Fact 8 months ago:
- Comment on Let's all make fun of this stupid astrapotherium. 9 months ago:
Heeeeeeey yoooooou guyyyyyyyyys!
- Comment on Worst amusement park ever. 1 year ago:
I beg to differ