@vaporeon_ i only bits and bobs mostly because of etymology. i did study linguistics, actually, but i was boring and almost entirely studied things in modern english. (my other language of interest is classical latin, which is.... niche..... fur actual linguistics work)
@vaporeon_ @onfy anglo-saxon (aka “old english”) had gendered terms catt and catte, male and female, respectively
@vaporeon_ it is fairly dragonesque too, knowing moves like dragon tail, and being in the dragon egg group. which makes me hotter
@vaporeon_ yeah
@vaporeon_ oh shit that’s a cute sounding way to refur to cats
@vaporeon_ :3
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@coriander destroying the entire earth. my favorite kind of shenanigan
@coriander wow i didn’t realize shadow the hedgehog was a stem major
re: do not open
@wallhackio you can’t tell me what to do!! 🔪🔪🖕
@wallhackio miles “wooper” prower
@monorail on an unrelated note that glaceon sprite is very cute
@vaporeon_ yeah i was considering replying “keming” but i wasn’t sure would get that
@vaporeon_ has heard of the term kerning
@kit apparently bots have a huge purroblem these days
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio i think they like it
@vaporeon_ “GNU to the power of Linux” is a really funny phrase to me fur some reason
it’s pronounced “ashling”. canonically a black housecat or any of the grass cat pokémon, but currently experiencing daily TFs. Commewnist. she/it
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