Anschel

queer quaker commie cat

In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate

Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish

I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried

רעד מיט מיר ייִדיש

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jeroknite
@jeroknite

Found out that "faggot", "fascist", and "fajita" are cognates (that's the word that means they share the same origin, something I also didn't know)


NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

If I had a nickel for every time the etymology of the name of an authoritarian regime from twentieth century Europe had a connection with the name of delicious Mexican food, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.


Anschel
@Anschel

I'm trying to think of delicious Mexican foods with European etymologies, but none of them have any visible connection to 20th-century authoritarianism in Europe. So far I have

  • taco, from old French "tache" meaning bolt or nail
  • quesadilla, ultimately from PIE "kwat-" meaning to ferment, via Latin "caseus", cheese
  • burrito, via an especially silly etymology tracing back to Greek "πῦρ" meaning fire

...did @NoelBWrites just make this up to drive us crazy??


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