Was slightly mindblown whenl discovered this.

The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “helil” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.

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wait WHAT

Aderinthemadscientist: Wait, so… does -copter come “from” helicopter?

108echoes: Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be"-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, (Hamburgl+(er], but semantically reinterpreted as (ham]+[burger].

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The Deathworlders,

    It’s a sprawling collaborative webseries that all but codified the “HFY” (Humanity, Fuck Yeah) / “Humans are Space Orcs” subgenre -
    -wherein our species discovers that, in the viewpoint of the rest of galactic society, WE are the terrifying scary space monsters.

    I love it to bits. You should at least read “The Kevin Jenkins Experience” which was its sort of “episode zero”/prototypical story. There are dozens of semi-canonical spin-off stories many others have based within this same “Jenkinsverse” setting.