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escuerzoresucitado

bimbogollum

Damn

f-identity

[Image description:

Cropped image of medieval-stylized printed text, focused on a line which reads: “This wenche thikke”

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bimbogollum

Thank you for adding this image description! Just wanted to clarify that it’s not stylised, but actual Middle English. The text is from The Canterbury Tales.

kiralamouse

Okay, had to track it down. It’s from the Reeve’s Tale, and it’s a description of a 20yo young woman:

This wenche thikke and wel y-growen was, With camuse nose and yën greye as glas; With buttokes brode and brestes rounde and hye, But right fair was hir heer, I wol nat lye.

In modern English (had to look up “camuse”, so that’s as good as my source, but I know the rest)

This wench was thick and well-grown With a pug nose and eyes grey as glass; With buttocks broad and breasts round and high, But right fair was her hair, I will not lie.

The fact that Chaucer had “big butt” and “I will not lie” within two lines of each other is causing me disproportionate amusement. Also the fact that “this wenche thikke” works equally well in Middle English and in modern slang.

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rococo-crow

ihaveapproximately4bones

escuerzoresucitado

toxictiktoks

debian-official

Rating prompt symbols

$

The dollar sign is a classic. Default on bash and familiar to everyone. Does remind of capitalism though. 7/10

#

The hash symbol is almost universally used for root shells. They say it protects users from accidentally copying in dangerous commands but I'm not convinced. 9/10

%

The percent sign is the default user prompt symbol for zsh and csh. Effective and straight to the point. 8/10

>

Never seen the greater-than symbol in a shell but here and there in custom prompts. Makes me feel like im talking to the machine. 10/10

yawnbrendan

You've GOTTA get out of the Basic Latin block my friends.

I'm currently using ❯❯ but there's a whole world of beauty in the Basic Multilingual Plane alone!

Maybe ❥

#unicode

Honestly the je ne sais quoi levels are absolutely through the floor in this meeting

#je ne sais quoi