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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Shit Midas. Unlike the greek's myth, there're so much more people who turn everything into piles of burning feces. I'm struggling to name it. Shitass, maybe? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. Mierda is Spanish for shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This answer is too fucking elegant. One another reason to finally learn it (:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's also "mierde" in French, because it's "merda" in Latin and was "smerda" before that in Proto-Indo-European (meaning "stench"). 🤓

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see. And that smerda word is saved in slavic languages, the earliest entry I remember is a class of citizens in Kiyvan Rus': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smerd But other than that it's used now to describe an ugly scent. Yet, I haven't thought of that connection before you said it (: