A Call For Humor!

[KellenVancouver]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[mhardy6647]

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I actually enjoy the bejabbers out of public speaking -- it's trying to chit-chat with one or two people I don't really know (e.g., at a party) that drives me straight to the farthest-away (or is that furthest-away) corner to spend some quality time contemplating my shoes.

 

[thewas]

 

[Boris Badinov]

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[Sir Sanders Zingmore]

You piqued my curiosity:
Before electricity was discovered and named, electric eels were likely referred to by indigenous names or descriptive terms based on their shocking abilities. Indigenous peoples of South America, where electric eels are found, had names for them, such as the "arimna" used by the Tupí people. Early European naturalists called them things like "torpedo fish" or "thunder fish", drawing comparisons to other animals with shocking abilities, such as electric rays (Torpedinidae).

Once scientists began studying them in the 18th century, they were given Latin names like Gymnotus electricus before being classified under Electrophorus electricus.

Martin

There’s a Latin word for electricity?

 

[theREALdotnet]

There’s a Latin word for electricity?

No, but biological species are given Latin(-esque) names. They can contain Latinised versions of words from any language.

 

[rationaltime]

There’s a Latin word for electricity?

There is a Greek word for electricity: "Electra" or "Elektra" meaning amber.
The static electricity properties of amber were known more than 2000 years ago.

 

[Bleib]

 

[MatrixS2000]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Audionaut]

 

[mhardy6647]

^^^ Note that the word weird kinda scuttles that whole i before e, except after c thing, too.

 

[Liberal Democracy]

 

[Kal Rubinson]

^^^ Note that the word weird kinda scuttles that whole i before e, except after c thing, too.

Yes, it is autological.

 

[ta240]

 

[thewas]

 

[Philbo King]

You piqued my curiosity:
Before electricity was discovered and named, electric eels were likely referred to by indigenous names or descriptive terms based on their shocking abilities. Indigenous peoples of South America, where electric eels are found, had names for them, such as the "arimna" used by the Tupí people. Early European naturalists called them things like "torpedo fish" or "thunder fish", drawing comparisons to other animals with shocking abilities, such as electric rays (Torpedinidae).

Once scientists began studying them in the 18th century, they were given Latin names like Gymnotus electricus before being classified under Electrophorus electricus.

Martin

I would have gone with "eels"...

 

[Bleib]

 

[rationaltime]