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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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Unrelated but I have the exact same clock pictured in the article … Weird.

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Klear@lemmy.world
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Does it go tock-tick?

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TrontheTechie@infosec.pub
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I suppose it depends on what part of the clocks action you first wake up during.

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jurgel@lemmy.world
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No fucking way, it’s exactly the same!

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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I could only find two differences.

Birds head is tilted different directions and mind has a single door for the cuckoo whereas the pictures one has double doors.

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kezza596@lemmy.world
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Trying to explain this to non native English speakers at my work is hilarious. It’s a rule that I don’t even know the parameters of. It just is!

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Benjamin_Kenobi@lemmy.world
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What a load of flam-flim.

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squilox@lemm.ee
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All that clip-clap and doesn’t say why

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GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world
14 points

Here you go, enjoy!

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Lambda@lemmy.ca
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More specifically look up the term “ablaut reduplication”. There’s lots of great articles and honestly some pretty good YouTube videos on the subject. I’m honestly surprised how great the YouTube linguistics scene is, from Tom Scott’s language files to rob words and name explain (plus nativlang). Hours of infotainment on linguistics for those interested!

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Rednax@kbin.social
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I now want to read a small story that actively violates these kind of rules.

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Acamon@lemmy.world
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I heard that child Tolkien told his mother he’d “written a story about a green, great dragon” and when his mum told him it had to be a “great, green dragon” he was so put off that he didn’t write again for years.

So maybe track down that story?

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