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[bob-belcher]

[cheapginandweed]

Fall’s coming soon you guys

[fishgummy]

this made me laugh so hard i started coughing

[teathattast]

Thieves Guild

[batsinmybelfry-deactivated20260]

A tale as old as time

[junk-junk-junction]

高井麻巳子　

『スコラ』 1988年5月12日号 / No.146

株式会社スコラ

[obsessedbyneon]

St. Louis Centre, Missouri, 1985.

Scan

[iamwizzzzz]

[brandynorwood]

[hitmyvape-deactivated20251006]

[socalgal]

you want some big dog

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7230/

archived on 2009-04-26 04:04:52

[witchrealms]

(x)

[goatsandgangsters]

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

[chastecaress]

[fehyesidollica]

[mi-ki-ki-m]

Miki Kim

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Possibly in Michigan (Cecelia Condit, 1983)

[kragehund-est]

dont piss me off. next time you go on a trip im filling your house with galapagos finches. by the time you return, they've evolved to fill your niche. they're a better spouse to your partner. they're a better parent for your child. and? they're a better friend to me than you ever were.