Spyke
lemmy.world

Fucking barbarians not knowing Latin and Greek. Literally means horse racing course

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lemmy.world

But horse-apotamus makes no sense (unless "apotamus" means "big fat") - I'm not the most cunning of linguists.

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lemmy.world

The Roman Hippodrome was AFAIK much more popular and used almost every day. It was also much, much bigger.

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lemm.ee

Homo means gay, trans means changed sex and hippo means fat, semi aquatic mammal.

Not to confuse anyone. English laziness strikes again!

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Skullgridreply
lemmy.world

homo means same, trans means across/other side, hippo means horse.

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Yeah I was being sarcastic sorry. People go around saying stuff like "are you a homo?" And "look at that hippo!" We know what they mean, but they're not saying what they think they're saying

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lemmyngreply
lemmy.ca

hippo means fat, semi aquatic manual.

Is there an automatic version?

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BossDjreply
lemm.ee

Oops, mammal. Also, I think some didn't know I was being sarcastic and mocking our general lack of understanding of roots.

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AA5Breply
lemmy.world

Like taters and carrots and onions? Oh I understand roots, alrighty.

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Noooooooo, that was a nightmare, it wasnt real. I dreamt I had to stay up late last night help my teen with math, taking derivatives of negative and fractional exponents

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