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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:20 am 
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While most colors exist* as some saturation/brightness value of a segment on the visible spectrum, PANK does not. PANK is actually most accurately described not as a color on its own, but an absence of another color: green. You could even say that PANK is negative green. Green tends to lie in the middle of the visible spectrum, while PANK is actually formed of a combination of red and violet waves (two opposite ends of the spectrum, unrelated to each other).


*Note that color is not a concrete property, rather, one observed in a myriad of different ways by anything that has sensory abilities. Color is derived from the chemical energies radiating off of a material, and our eyes just happen to process the data from that energy as color. So colors technically don't EXIST as anything, but if we temporarily assign them a more permanent status, then the concept of a fake color is interesting to me.


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 Post subject: get it PANK salmon ahahahahahahahaha fuck you
PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:06 pm 
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I always knew there was something fishy about PANK.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:15 pm 
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While it is difficult to determine exact wordcounts for languages, due to whether or not we go entirely by graphical and phonetic identity, or also connotative, grammatical and inflective variations, English is the language that has the largest minimum number of distinct, real words, clocking in at upwards of 250,000 (a quarter million). This is likely due to the sheer number of synonyms we have from word-borrowing over the last thousand years, and that a very large portion of technology-related words start in English.

Taki Taki, which is a creole language found in South America, has the fewest distinct, real words at around 340. (This is around the vocabulary of your average English-speaking 3-4 year old)


These are minimum estimates, however, as there is kind of a blurry line on what should be counted. Should plurals be counted? Ownership modifications? Nominalization (turning a verb into a noun, like "run")? It's generally agreed that contractions and recent mutations that wouldn't fly in a graded paper ("Supposably", or "irregardless") don't count. But that's about it.

If these grammatically correct variation types are counted though, and words that are the same phonetically or graphically, but occur in different functions are also included, the number of distinct words in English immediately jumps up to almost a full million.
And out of that quarter-to-full million words, the average, native-English-speaking, American adult knows a whopping 20k. And uses less than half that in conversation. (Sorry I don't have stats about other countries or languages.)


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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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Holland is not actually the same as the Netherlands, but is two provinces that consist of about half the country. Nobody actually cares about this, including the Dutch.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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All polar bears are left handed

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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Polar bears don't have hands, though.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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theyre left paw-ed then do i look like a bear scientist

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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The square root of the hypotenuse of any isosceles triangle is equal to the sum of the square roots of the two remaining sides.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:07 pm 
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Barabba wrote:
The square root of the hypotenuse of any isosceles triangle is equal to the sum of the square roots of the two remaining sides.


Which does not mean, however, that squaring both sides of the equation will yield the original lengths, because math is bullshit.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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the official weight that is used to measure a standard kilogram has been slowly losing weight


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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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No, my weight hasn't been going up, the kilo has just been depreciating in value. Duh

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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Chinmaster wrote:
the official weight that is used to measure a standard kilogram has been slowly losing weight



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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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"Buzzword" is a buzzword.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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With its abundance of hogs and horses, West Texas is ripe for LoZ reenactments.

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 Post subject: Re: "Did You Know?" - The Thread!
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There are no known or living carnivores that have horns. Unless you count narwals.
They're more pescatarian.

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