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If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
Well then you just trade furries for scalies and bronies.
Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but what are scalies?
Start pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelós
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
RIGHT?! I’m glad I’m not the only one. It’s based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Dubya said nucular, must be right.
Common misconception but it’s actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
I’ll take “that totally happened” for 200, please.
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
