edweeirdo:

queenrinacat:

brainstatic:

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

Some of these are fucking wild.

tflatte:

patrickdiomedes:

megs-dreadshredder:

maamlet:

maamlet:

not to imply disney has any creative value but wheres the muppet avengers movie. just like a watchable avengers

and before you ask yes kermit is bruce banner in this scenario

loki is still loki and kermit beats the shit out of him

does him hulking out involve him turning into Animal?

no the only visible change kermit goes through is that he sticks angry felt eyebrows over his eyes

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

When we say that Ada Lovelace was arguably the world’s first computer programmer, that “arguably” isn’t thrown in there because of questions of definitions or precedence – she definitely wrote programs for a computer, and she was definitely the first.

Rather, the reason her status as the world’s first computer programmer is arguable is because during her lifetime, computers did not exist.

Yes, really: her code was intended for Charles Babbage’s difference engine, but Babbage was never able to build a working model – the material science of their time simply wasn’t up to the challenge. Lovelace’s work was thus based on a description of how the difference engine would operate.

Like, imagine being so far ahead of your time that you’re able to identify and solve fundamental problems of computer programming based on a description of the purely hypothetical device that would run the code you’re writing.

(Having no actual, physical computers on which to ply her skills, she then turned her attention to developing mathematical formulas for beating gambling establishments at their own game, which demonstrates that she anticipated not only the practice of computer science, but also the culture.)