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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldTIL
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    23 hours ago

    There was a meme recently about Columbus naming everything they found “pepper”. I suspect it’s a result of language at the time.

    Since English has borrowed heavily over the centuries, we now have multiple words for these different things as words for the same thing come in from other languages.

    German seems to build compound words for things.






  • I simpler terms, broader appeal means less complexity.

    If you want more people to “get” a piece of music, by definition it must be less complex.

    For example a current pop song will be more approachable by more people than Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”, simply because everyone can get the former, but only some people can grok Miles’ music (and those people also get the pop stuff, even if they don’t listen to it much, or if the listen to it a lot).

    It’s not a free market thing, it’s simply the old distribution curve applied to art. Marketing just utilizes the nature of people.

    I “get” Miles stuff much more than the average person, but when it comes to visual arts I know fuck all, so only the most fundamental stuff has any appeal to me.

    I’m essentially the same in visual arts as someone who only listens to pop music.










  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    I’ve known many average folks with mountain/lake/beach property. They’re not wealthy, just their first home wasn’t in an expensive place, same as the “cabin”. I’ve been to “lake houses” that were just an old trailer home, or an inexpensive, minimalist construction.

    The ones I know also rent out the cabin when they’re not using it to subsidize it.

    But yea, this isn’t typical at all. The people I know are very much the exception.


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    Hahahaha, a home in Manhattan? Some of the most expensive real estate in the world at something like $1300 per square foot.

    Typical New Yorker (city, that is). Many people there think they’re the center of the world, that NYC is the place to be and everywhere else wants to be NYC.

    Yea, he’s way the fuck out of touch. I don’t know anyone with a “weekend home”.

    I know people with vacation homes, but they bought those when they were older (50’s), and they’re usually small places say at a beach/lake, etc, that often gets rented out when they aren’t using it (as that’s how they pay for it).



  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWrist breaker 2000
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    5 days ago

    Kid could mean a lot of things.

    By the time I was ten, we had major safety rules branded into our brains about all sorts of dangerous things, including guns.

    Growing up in a shop, we’d catch hell for even pointing the air hose in someone else’s direction.

    We had drills that could easily break your arm if you weren’t super careful.

    It all depends on the parents.