Manish
@ManishEarth
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territory mapper. 💉did @ca_covid . 🗣️ likes languages. ✈️ Repatriate/ABCD. 👨🔬 Formerly physics. he/him
Berkeley, CA
Joined January 2010
been becoming more active there! haven't been posting much but have been reading a lot more, it's pretty pleasant!
I'm on bluesky as well, @manishearth.bsky.social unsure what I plan to do there
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Fun fact: This process is called dysphemism lexicalization. When a word which refers to something vulgar starts being as a dysphemism (a vulgar nonliteral description of something), in the process it loses its original literal meaning and stops being perceived as vulgar.
student said i was “edging” the class because i was e.g. promising a movie day if we get through content quickly. i said not to say that because it has sexual connotations but then everyone was like, no? reminded me of saying “that blows” in middle school and getting in trouble.
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"hi I would like to get an exchange on my husband" (this translates as a room where you "change" "man", not a changing room for males)
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Said “mereko” in front of a Delhiite and got a lecture that no such word exists in Hindi. I’m still confused though, because mereko toh lagta hai it exists.
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is there a field of study that the average layperson consistently overestimates their own understanding of more than linguistics
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just learned that there is a "belle monte ave" in the neighborhood of "belle mont" in the city of belmont and it ruined my day
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me: my sister stole taro snacks off of my plate when i was a teenager random twitter person: prove it. tell us the name of your sister and the subspecies of taro leaf used
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it's morbidly funny how normal "prove it, tell me more details about it" has become a way to internet debunk random claims about someone's past like, how is that going to help? most such events are not recorded
@HeylonMusk and like, if i tell you the name of the school and the person, which i won't for privacy reasons, what, are you going to look for news incidents about it? it's not going to be in the news, this was something people just considered normal at the time (~2008)
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I have an iron law of gender discourse that regardless of the gender being complained about, for any popular complaint that they are doing a thing, there is an equal and opposite popular complaint that they are not doing the thing.
when did seeing someone reading quietly by themselves become an excuse for people to become such dicks
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the practice of boiling down why you don't like someone into something succinct loses information anyway. almost all dealbreakers are surmountable when there is compatability in other ways,
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friend was preemptively turned down by her friend because he thought she was too young for him but noticed she was interested, guy is now dating someone exactly her age it's clear to both of us that the reason was something more complex he just reached for the easy reason
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it's easy to notice the concrete traits and hard to sais quoi the ineffable, so if you're not careful you miss the actual core reason things didn't work
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a common pitfall i've seen is people walking away from potential relationships for some relatively ineffable reason but then internalizing it as being about a concrete trait and over time you end up with a list of traits that you only think you care about
My suspicion is that these guys might be saying that they want to fall in love and they didn’t feel that for the women they’ve met so far
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i don't really have anything against people having moral positions on the consumption of meat but using that as an excuse to treat people like trash and label them as impure? yeah no you have no moral high ground whatsoever
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i went to a heavily jain school after moving to mumbai and the kids would force the one muslim kid to go eat in a different room bc he'd often bring non veg food
i had a jain classmate in school who slapped me when i said i had chicken for dinner 😭😭😭
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@iwsfutcmd likes to point out that a common refrain about minority groups in China is "they like to dance!" which feels very weird to point out (doesn't everyone?) until you remember that the dominant ethnic group in China is abnormally not super big on dance
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yeah the "except 7 groups of people" thing is real when it comes to this, 99% of the "my culture does this" stuff is actually "most cultures do this, and culturally dominant WASP culture finds this weird" either that or frugality tricks from poorer/immigrant groups
Having eaten with my New England Irish-American family and my Puerto Rican family, I can confirm this meme is real. Every culture on Earth is the basically the same, except like ~7 groups of people in Northern and Western Europe.
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"You have to believe the illusion or else you'll go mad." Payal Kapadia will always be famous.
🚨 Mumbai is ranked as Asia's happiest city in 2025 - according to a new survey by Time Out.
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unironically true imo exclusive we feels *so* different vibes wise to English "we" when you're talking about doing something
This is why you need clusivity
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