• @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    428 months ago

    Hmmm, which one? I’m going to paddle around in my kāy-nō?, or The lava from that vol-ka-ˈnew might cover the village!

  • @stanka@lemmy.ml
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    198 months ago

    I’m not doing research here while being an internet expert. But more people are killed every year in canoe-related incidents than volcano related incidents.

    • @Eylrid@lemmy.world
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      88 months ago

      Mildly related fact: More people die of drowning every year than have ever died from nuclear incidents including Nagasaki and Hiroshima

    • @stebo02@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      TIL canoes isn’t pronounced kay-noes like volcanoes… English why do you keep bamboozling me 😩

      • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Because English isn’t a language, it’s a goon in a trench-coat that lures other languages into dark alleys and beats them down to steal spare grammar.

        Canoe comes from Caribbean indigenous words through Spanish and Volcano comes from ancient Latin and Roman religion.