Bird Brand

Catholic. Language Autist specializing in semantics. Technically not a meteorologist.

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@musical_ipseity @BossCatholic @conan_esq I redefine terminology because I'm the Language Autist and am compelled to rectify names and stand in judgement over the dictionaries and vocabularies of men.
Do not misunderstand.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Important: if we had borrowed the word “mammal” from Latin during the Roman Empire instead of the 1700s, it’d be “mammol” in Old English and “mamble” today. Leave a comment if you like mambles.

[Borja Guillén | Consultor de negocio @Borja_G_G]

Lo mas parecido a que se te acerque un dinosaurio

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@MillieMarconnni Why does a Japanese guy have a Chinese name?

[mist 𓅨𓅻 @hirundinifaye]

birders frequently suffer from "the grass is greener" syndrome

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@MasteredUl78284 @GarbageHuman24 >in every manner.
Do you know what “manner” means?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A crow in the UK casually asking passers by if they’re alright

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

Around 1902 Cherokee elders in Georgia were still talking about the vagrant scissor-tailed flycatcher they saw one time forty years earlier.

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

The Spanish word “puño”, meaning “fist”, is clearly from the Latin word “pugnus” of the same meaning

From this we can conclude that “gn” in Iberia underwent the same sound change that it did in Italy to produce “balogna” and “lasagna”, and that “gn” is a valid alternative to “ñ”

[onionweigher 🧅⚖️ @onionweigher]

@24meebo puño 👊

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@EdgyMuhgee I love this joke

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

When I was a tutor at a local college, I saw a woman use a calculator for an equation as simple as 2*3=6. It might’ve been 6/2=3 or 6/3=2, I don’t remember exactly.

[Quetzal Writes 🇺🇲| 🇬🇹 @QuetzalThoughts]

Unrelated, but once when taking Organic Chem, we were having a review session before the final. Guy shows up 45 minutes late, dishelved and then asks "what do the double lines between the Carbon and Oxygen mean." The room went deathly silent 💀

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

Incredible that “now” didn’t change pronunciation even slightly for 6,000 years straight, from PIE down to Early Modern English, at which point it got obliterated by the Great Vowel Shift

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

God, and most of His target audience, aren’t autistic.

[Packers @IslamicPackers]

Jesus isn’t God.

Jesus said the mustard seed is the smallest seed on earth

The smallest seeds on earth are orchid seeds.

Christians, what do you think?

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@Ronnie_Rockit @kojimaicmatters Let people speak foreign languages!

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

when mount tambora in indonesia erupted in 1815, the volcano killed all 10,000+ tambora people and wiped out their culture entirely. their extinct language was uniquely non-austronesian & we only know about it from a 48-word vocabulary list collected by colonial officials in 1814

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@owenbroadcast So that he looks good. See Mat 6:29

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@kojimaicmatters What do you think of the term “moneybags” as a term for moguls or tycoons?

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@RoboLarry2000 @SwaineLevi @LibertyCappy Indeed, effeminacy is one of the primary significations of “gay”, which is in turn the primary reason “gay” doesn’t function as a generic insult.

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

>’Gay' in the derogatory term has no actual meaning other than being generically negative
No, calling something gay is not negative, as there is no negation involved.

[Levi Swaine 🇨🇦 @SwaineLevi]

@Machine_Baron @LibertyCappy 'Gay' in the derogatory term has no actual meaning other than being generically negative.

Racism is negative in the generic sense.

Ergo, racism is gay.

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@heroesahead This happened once in legends and The Executor’s shields tanked a collision of 5 light speed ISDs

[Bird Brand @Machine_Baron]

@wylfcen Why does g keep turning into y?