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A bunch of collective nouns (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

It's even easier than that with most people I know

They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just ..... stuff

Flock of geese? .... stuff

A stack of books? ... stuff

group of cars? .... stuff

A planet? .... stuff

A solar system? ... stuff

A galaxy? ... stuff

A galactic neighbourhood? ... stuff

The universe? .... stuff

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The universe? … stuff

I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No, it's my stuff, your shit. Whenever it's mine, it's stuff. Whenever it's yours, it's shit. ie. "Get your shit off the counter so I can put my stuff down."

Source: ol Gorgie Boy

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 21 hours ago

Where else would I put my stuff?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

I never disagree with ol' Georgie

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Sounds like German

plane - flying stuff

Lighter - fire stuff

Vehicle - driving stuff

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

lol ... I'm Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree

This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe

Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook .... 'the thing that flies'

Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik ... 'the thing that turns fast'

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

When the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that's stuff.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah I know ... like stuff ... I dunno ... shrugs shoulders and walks away

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago

Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff”

― Martin Heidegger