• oppy1984@lemm.ee
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      9 hours ago

      You really think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and lie?

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        7 hours ago

        That’s exactly what I said last night when I was in a hot tub with David Bowie and Harry Potter.

        Anyways, it’s time for me to go and see my girlfriend. You won’t know her as she goes to another school, an errrm an astronaut school.

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          4 hours ago

          Oh look at Mr. Big shot over here. The rest of us can only get hootie and the blowfish in a kiddy pool. Oh well good for you.

          No worries, I should get going too, my girlfriend is waiting for me in Canada.

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          Oh look at Mr. Big shot over here. The rest of us can only get hootie and the blowfish in a kiddy pool. Oh well good for you.

          No worries, I should get going too, my girlfriend is waiting for me in Canada.

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        In American English, a stool can also mean furniture and poop. (I am guessing this comes directly from German.)

        The comment, you replied to, makes sense because in American English a stool and a chair are different types of sitting furniture. The difference being a stool has no or limited back support and can be counter height.

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          1 hour ago

          Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!


          I am guessing this comes directly from German

          The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:

          Chair:

          Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere (“chair, seat, throne”), from Latin cathedra (“seat”).

          Stuhl:

          […] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ […]

          (Old high German stuol meaning ‘seat’ or ‘throne’

          Das Wort Stuhl […] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.

          (The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix ‘l’ to the root ‘*stā’ or ‘*stǝ’ which means ‘to stand’)

          So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool. “Schemel” seems to come from “scamilla”, Latin for small bench.

          I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it’s interesting :D

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            whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool.

            So what you’re saying is that the meme doesn’t work in German either, because the furniture in the meme would be referred to as a “Schemel” rather than a “Stuhl”

            This meme is an abortion of human language smh

          • frog@feddit.uk
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            1 hour ago

            Yes always good to see a fellow frog!

            So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.

            That is interesting.

            Thanks for the info.