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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] Unimperfect 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In Castellano (Spanish from Spain), it's called piña.

[–] raef 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?

The takeaway here is, the rest of the world uses different words than the continents where it comes from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Also what I was taught in US Spanish classes.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 4 months ago

Ananas

Bananas

:-/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can't include English in any rational discussion about languages. It breaks every rule, and isn't one language, but a pidgin of three or four. It's a bastard of a language, and what-about-ism involving English is so trivial it's not worth debating. You can always find a worse example of any language linguistic stupidity in English.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Writer James D. Nicoll

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The James Nicoll quote is better - use that instead.