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Old 03-29-2018, 01:12 AM   #126
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Being in love with Nurse Joy is nothing to be ashamed about.

A new human organ has been discovered, and those of you familiar with science can probably believe it. Having done some histology work, I felt too much of it was...inexact?
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Old 04-01-2018, 05:24 AM   #127
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Back to the Future got it wrong, but AT&T didn't.
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Old 04-02-2018, 09:48 AM   #128
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Apparently they don't say "gotten" in the UK anymore.

Man, that is so weird. It sounds so uneducated to my ear to say "He had got sick" or "He has got over it." He had gotten sick. He has gotten over it. The only time I can think of off the top of my head where "has got" would be allowed would be when you're saying the phrase "has got" to mean "must", e.g. "He has got to stop doing that!" I guess there's another one, the case where you're filling the void that results from contracting "has" or "have", as in the sentence "He's got two kids" (instead of simply "He has two kids" or "He's two kids"). And that one would never have worked with "gotten" anyway, it's a totally different grammar role as far as I can tell. But yeah, other than those few cases... the past participle of "get" is totally "gotten." Man. So weird that in the UK it's shifted away. Now I'm curious to know how recently this happened.

http://grammarist.com/usage/got-gotten/ indicates that already by the 1700s the British were drifting away from using "gotten". Man. That is so weird but so fascinating.
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Old 04-02-2018, 09:58 AM   #129
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Really? "Gotten" is the weird one in my mind.
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Old 04-02-2018, 10:14 AM   #130
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Really? "Gotten" is the weird one in my mind.
It would be like any of the following examples:
"He had swam for seven hours." (Should be swum. Swim, swam, swum.)

"He had awoke." (Should be awoken. Awake, awoke, awoken.)

"I have came to understand." (Should be come. Come, came, come.)

"He has wrote a new book." (Should be written. Write, wrote, written.)
In the same sense that all of the previous examples should sound weird to your ear, "has got" as in the specific sentence "He has got better" sounds super weird and ungrammatical.

A sister example that I've found brought up a lot while lightly researching this is "forgotten", as apparently some English speakers might say it's forget / forgot / forgot while in America it is undoubtedly forget / forgot / forgotten, e.g. "I've forgotten your name" and never "I've forgot your name." The latter, while understandable, sounds super low-class.
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Old 04-02-2018, 10:41 AM   #131
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Dropping syllables or vowels is vulgar and typical of the lower-class.
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Old 04-02-2018, 11:29 AM   #132
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Interesting. Talon, in your examples I would actually say swam sounds the best. Agreeing with come and written though. I'm also definitely a proponent of forgotten.
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Old 04-25-2018, 05:13 PM   #133
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African elephants and Asian elephants are not closely related, relatively speaking: they are in different genus and have over 6 million years of genetic separation. In fact, the woolly mammoth is more closesly related to the Asian elephant than the African elephant is. The degree of difference is so great, it's comparable to that of humans versus chimpanzees.

Yet, an african-asian elephant hybrid did live at one point. More a footnote proof-of-concept in evolutionary history, it nonetheless shows that cladograms are still nothing but simplifications and that they can't tell the whole story when it comes to genetic compatibility.

Back on the mammoth: while it's not possible to bring them back to life, mammoth-specific genes taken from carcasses have been inserted into Asian elephant cells, and are expressing proteins for cold adaptation. It's very possible, within the next two decades, we could see a mammoth-like elephant adapted for cold roaming the steppe of Pleistocene Park.
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Old 05-26-2018, 10:51 AM   #134
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17% of the land in the Netherlands used to be underwater. Through some cool feats of engineering the Dutch were able to reclaim this land.

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Old 05-26-2018, 06:02 PM   #135
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The domesticated/feral bactrian camel's binomial name is Camelus bactrianus, while the wild bactrian camel is Camelus ferus.

How did that happen?
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Old 08-29-2018, 06:54 AM   #136
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Taco Bell is named after its founder.
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What I already knew: in Japan, Officer Jenny is called Junsa-san and Nurse Joy is Joy-san. Junsa and Joy. Cool.

What I didn't know until just now: 巡査 junsa is actually a word, not a name. ... It means "police officer."

What I realized immediately after: so it isn't Joy-san, either: it's Joi-san. As in 女医. "Lady doctor." Joi.

Mind blown, I never knew this all this time. Always just thought Junsa was some uncommon girls name I hadn't come across before outside of Pokémon. Never questioned Joy in a million years. Holy fucking shit they've been Officer and Nurse Lady Doctor this entire time. My God ... #mindblown
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Old 10-23-2018, 05:35 PM   #138
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Rachel Lillis turned 40 years old this year. She was 19 when she started Pokemon.

To me that's surreal, because I always imagined all of the original dub cast being two decades older than myself. The idea that it's been 20 years since Pokemon debut and Misty is still young enough to marry most of the original UPN posters is surprising.

With all the media interest in Pokemon at the time, you'd think this factoid would have been disclosed early and widely disseminated.

Like, Aoi Yuuki has been around forever in the voice acting scene and she just turned 26. But this is less surprising because she was like 17 when she did Vampire Bund and that information was well circulated through the new modes.
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Old 10-24-2018, 04:06 PM   #139
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When ExHentai leaks into the real world.
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Old 10-25-2018, 12:06 PM   #140
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Marshall Mathers, the rapper called Eminem chose his name from a philosophical concept called an Eminem which is a name for a philosophical rampart of hard litorical writings related to music, which is also a similaic term for the technique of reading a hard litorical writing while playing a piece of music on an instrument like the guitar, or piano, espescially when does a hard performance as before a crowd, like within a talent show. Not many know this. Or even the concept of what an Eminem is. This is also a direct synonym and father of what rap is (by father I mean, the adjectival philosophical hard-word term to describe a philosophical word creation) The philosophical word concept.
So ya'll should probably consider this new knowledge because this is a little known educational fact, which makes this post perfect for this thread.

Glad to enlighten ya'll and please respond for discussion, because this is a fascinating concept.
Enjoy this topic and please post with good discussion.

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Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero don't take place in the same universe, timeline, or continuity.

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Old 01-31-2019, 09:25 PM   #142
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All dinosaurs had bipedal skeletons, that is their common ancestor with other reptiles was originally bipedal. Quadrupedal locomotion re-evolved in dinosaurs like the Stegosaurus, Triceratops and sauropods, because these massive creatures needed four limbs to support their incredibly weight.

When you look at dinosaur skeletons, the hind limbs seem longer than the forelimbs, and are underneath the animal, rather than at the side as with crocodiles, monitor lizards and turtles. That's what was leftover from their bipedalism.
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Old 02-14-2019, 06:48 PM   #143
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Fix-it-Felix Jr. was loosely based on the original Donkey Kong, with Felix as the Mario-like character and Ralph as the Donkey Kong-like character.

Ralph only has a vague resemblance to DK, however Felix is a fitter Mario without a moustache:

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Today I learned that cashews come from a fruit.

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Old 07-05-2019, 10:42 PM   #145
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The main Jojos in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are voiced by actors who all have the same last name, despite being unrelated. The intent was to suggest that they are related, as if it were an actual family voicing the Jojo family members.

Daisuke Ono (Jotaro)
Yuki Ono (Josuke)
Kenshou Ono (Giorno)
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Snake imitates bug.
Bug imitates snake.
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A few years ago, it was discovered that alligators are omnivorous as one was observed deliberately eating kumquats.

We also learned of a vegetarian spider Bagheera kiplingi.

Now, we have veggie-eating sharks.
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If it's brown, lie down
If it's black, fight back
If it's white, good night

Apparently, that ditty doesn't apply to polar bears themselves. They fear grizzly bears and will run from them, despite weighing more and being more dangerous to humans.
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Size isn't the only factor in a fight. Honey badgers have been known to chase off larger predators i.e. lions, hyenas.
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