Apparently some people claim it’s actually “big lake” (or the more influenced-by-the-English-name-for-the-region translation “great lake”), and I seem to have misremembered *which* Iroquoian language it was, but everyone seems to be in agreement that it’s about impressive lakes. Because unlike the Cucamonga Desert, we have us some goddamn lakes.
(I guess that means there’s a little bit of Hillhillhill Hill going on with Lake Ontario, but anyway.)
Interesting!
I’m very pro hillhillhill Hill style names, and adopting foreign language synonyms to refer to a specific variant (like chai tea or kimonos in english).
however I’m down on calling arbitrary kitchen equipment french.
>>I’m very pro hillhillhill Hill style names
It sure beats naming everything Stratford all the time [link].
And yeah, there is a certain elegance in solutions like “using the Persian word for bread to mean ‘bread made in the Persian manner’”.
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Apparently some people claim it’s actually “big lake” (or the more influenced-by-the-English-name-for-the-region translation “great lake”), and I seem to have misremembered *which* Iroquoian language it was, but everyone seems to be in agreement that it’s about impressive lakes. Because unlike the Cucamonga Desert, we have us some goddamn lakes.
(I guess that means there’s a little bit of Hillhillhill Hill going on with Lake Ontario, but anyway.)
Related poll: what time period is covered by “the other day”? (If you wouldn’t mind, please add your approximate or exact age as well; I have a working hypothesis that “the other day” spans greater stretches of time as one gets older)
My dad uses “the other day” to mean basically any point in the past. He has used it to refer to events more than 8 years ago. It used to drive me up the wall when I was young, but now I find myself doing exactly the same thing.
Hypothesis falsified; I guess my dad is just weird and it rubbed off on me.
Several = definitely 4 – 8, maybe 9 or 10
The other day = if I knew how long ago it was I probably wouldn’t be calling it that; likely not more than a couple weeks or so though, after that it defaults back to “a while ago” which could be any temporal distance
Age = 26
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Fun fact, the airport there is Ontario International Airport. It’s a crappy small airport, but it has crappy small flights that cross the border, so it’s an international airport!
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#one can’t help but hate Ontario California #fuck you and your search-engine poisoning #(what have you even done to deserve that name?) #(do you have even *one* beautiful lake??) #(you’re a fucking *desert*) #(go name yourself after the Seneca word for sand or something) #our home and cherished land #home of the brave #names
I think TV shows should stop wasting their money hiring a different C-list actor for every minor or one-off role and go back to how they did things in the 90s, where each show had a small pool of bit part performers and one really good makeup artist, and over the course of a couple of seasons you’d end up with like half a dozen apparently unconnected minor characters all played by the same guy, leading the fans to construct elaborate theories explaining how all of them were secretly the same character.
I’m sure there’s plenty of examples but I’m wondering if this is a Jeffrey Combs post
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one of the best parts of horses and the horse world are the dramatic names, it’s honestly my favorite. i want my professional job to be naming racehorses stupid things. i write fiction about racehorses sometimes, and the best parts aren’t the dramatic crime scenes, they’re the the racehorse names i get to come up with. like:
i have literal lists dedicated to this
I had an extremely vivid dream a few months back that I was trapped in a fire tower (to watch for wildfires) that was surrounded by wildfire and my manager emailed me and told me I had to legally name every single horse owned by the national park service and enter them all in a database as the flames grew closer.
The dream mostly consisted of trying to figure out the Secret Horse Naming Rules of the Offical Horse Database so that I could name all Sixteen Thousand Horses. Rules included “Must contain real, whole words” “No Profanity” and “No repeats at all ever, for any horse that ever lived”.
I kept thinking of new things like “I’m pretty sure I know more swear words than the Horse Database” and “I bet there aren’t horses named just strings of random nouns” and “I bet I can gives horses last names”
Some of the names I remember, as the flames howled around the tiny tower and I was filled with vengeful rage:
Valid-To-Eat-Fingers-O’Malley
Dishwasher
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
dinosaur chicken nugget
The First Third Of The Bee Movie Script Before I Hit The Secret Character Limit
Brinens and Things 