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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago
[-] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Which is according to google translate means She-Wolf in french. I think that would have been funnier it is a word I could find.

[-] fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Damn, she-wolf sounds so dumb, why doesn't english have different words for male and female for all animals like it does for lion

[-] knorke3@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

isn't the stem word for that loup?

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 27 points 11 months ago

Who said that the word doesn't haue "u"?

Was that my Father that went hence so fast?
Ben. It was: what sadnes lengthens Romeo's houres?
Ro. Not hauing that, which hauing, makes them short
Ben. In loue.
Romeo. Out.
Ben. Of loue.
Rom. Out of her fauour where I am in loue.
Ben. Alas that loue so gentle in his view,

Romeo and Juliet, foglio I, around verse 170

...good enough for Shakespeare, good enough for me. No need for a fifth letter!


I'm half-joking with the above, but the word did use to be spelled with "U" instead of "V". Past then both were taken as the same letter. [/trivia]

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago

This is why 'double u' in French is 'Double v'

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

‘u’ was the lowercase form, ‘V’ was the uppercase form

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

It was both case and position: for uppercase you'd use ⟨V⟩, for initial lowercase ⟨v⟩, else ⟨u⟩. For example, check "view" in the last line of the excerpt.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago
[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago
[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago
[-] crsu@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

They were born that way, they can't help it. Mods arrest this person

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

There’s a comic floating around that is drawn where one of the characters eyes float when they are not facing front. Normal eye, floating eye. Creepy.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 12 points 11 months ago
[-] krakenx@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago
[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago
[-] vegantomato@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I love the gender-neutral drawing, very subtle.

[-] realitista@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You were expecting a tent pole?

[-] crsu@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Needs more chainsaws

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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