The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agoA bunch of collective nounslemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1358
arrow-up1358imageA bunch of collective nounslemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 day agoIt’s even easier than that with most people I know They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just … stuff Flock of geese? … stuff A stack of books? … stuff group of cars? … stuff A planet? … stuff A solar system? … stuff A galaxy? … stuff A galactic neighbourhood? … stuff The universe? … stuff
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day ago The universe? … stuff I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI never disagree with ol’ Georgie
minus-squareweker01@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 day agoSounds like German plane - flying stuff Lighter - fire stuff Vehicle - driving stuff
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agolol … I’m Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook … ‘the thing that flies’ Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik … ‘the thing that turns fast’
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoWhen the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that’s stuff.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoYeah I know … like stuff … I dunno … shrugs shoulders and walks away
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoI once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day ago Thus “phenomenology” means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff” ― Martin Heidegger
It’s even easier than that with most people I know
They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just … stuff
Flock of geese? … stuff
A stack of books? … stuff
group of cars? … stuff
A planet? … stuff
A solar system? … stuff
A galaxy? … stuff
A galactic neighbourhood? … stuff
The universe? … stuff
I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.
I never disagree with ol’ Georgie
Sounds like German
plane - flying stuff
Lighter - fire stuff
Vehicle - driving stuff
lol … I’m Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree
This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe
Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook … ‘the thing that flies’
Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik … ‘the thing that turns fast’
When the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that’s stuff.
Yeah I know … like stuff … I dunno … shrugs shoulders and walks away
I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.
― Martin Heidegger