To compare English equivalents:
struo (as in “structure”) → de-struo → destroy
turbo (as in “turbulent”) → dis-turbo → disturb
assimulo (as in “assimilate”) → assemble → disassemble
jungo (perhaps related to “conjugal”) → dis-jungo → disjoin
mantle (as in “take the mantle”) → dismantle
platea (now “plaza”) → placer → des-placer → displace
I’m also halfway sure that dis- and zer- are etymologically related.
The German words for destroy in the Tweet above are nuanced as follows:
zerstören: The most general word. Can be used in the most contexts, but implies the use of heavy violence. A zerstörtes thing is not just broken (“kaputt”) but beyond repair and sometimes even recognition.
zerschlagen: Also implies violence, but is when used of a thing that is composed of discrete sub-units, and quite often in an abstract sense. An English equivalent is maybe *to disassemble". You can zerschlagen alliances, federations, teams, rebellions and the like. auflösen ‘to dissolve’ is also used in these contexts, but less violent.
zerlegen is also ‘to disassemble’, but in an orderly way. Generally, from an entire whole into new parts. It’s what you do with trees to make timber, animals to make pieces of meat, furniture for transport.
zersetzen is a more passive process. You can use it as a transitive verb when fungi and bacteria zersetzen organic material, but also intransitive or reflexive when the organic material zersetzt sich. You would translate it as ‘to break down’.
zerdrücken: When you press something until it breaks.
zerjoy sounds like one could enjoy something until it breaks. Zerfreuen does not exist (yet), but it sounds very good.
zerstören … implies the use of heavy violence.
decimation?
From the prolific channel I Love Languages!, posted from several times before in this thread.
Clickbait title but the video is pretty chill.
For those who don’t remember:
No, decimation is dezimieren and is used when a large part of a group is annihilated. When something is zerstört it is really entirely lost and beyond repair. In opposition to vernichten ‘to annihilate’, there will be debris and rubble left after Zerstörung.
Popular means to zerstören something include the following:
(This list is not exhaustive. You can help to expand it)
Would they write it like that, or エクスプロォォォジョン?
Famously bad doctor handwriting. We aren’t all so different after all.
No idea!
Crosslink to this 2019 thread If you could study a new language to learn more about go, which one would you choose?
I found it kinda funny.
これから一ヶ月、死んだつもりで働いてもらいます。
Please work with all your energy in the next 30 days.
Youtube recommended me game theory introduction. Talking speed is so fast, maybe watching it at 0.75 is better.
From an episode of Beavis and Butthead
Wait, natatorium is a real American English word? I thought it was a humorous “hermeneuticism”.
被る「かぶる」 - to put on (one’s head)
被る「こうむる」 - to suffer; to sustain (damage)
That’s annoying, same writing, different meanings.
One- / two-character “Japanese”-style stone numbering for kifu.
Title matches overview for beginners
Too bad they speak too quickly and too complicated for me. But I didn’t know about title priorities which decide player naming, so I learned something. Surprising that Kisei is considered the coolest title.
marrow - … a companion
I’ve never heard this in Modern English. Wiktionary calls it “archaic or Scottish”.
The only place I knew it from was the early 17th-c. poem Tom o’ Bedlam:
When I short have shorn my sow’s face
And swigged my horny barrel,
In an oaken inn I pound my skin
As a suit of gilt apparel;
The moon’s my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make
Me music to my sorrow.
ibid. as in ibidem
I didn’t know this one. (ibid. = ibidem = in the same place)
litter is a bit broader than stretcher. To quote the first sense on Wiktionary:
A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
See also palanquin, from Portugese and ultimately Sanskrit:
A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia.
Palanquin litters in GoT:
