French ‘est’ and ‘ouest’ look a lot like ‘east’ and ‘west’.
That’s because they were borrowed from Old English, along with other nautical terms, which points to naval contacts.
French passed on the words for the wind directions to the other Romance languages.
My new graphic tells you more:
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the thing I can't get over about the Cult of Elon is the guy fucking sucks ass at talking. he could barely get a string of sentences out before he started taking Soviet de-icing chemicals and shit www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
How is Musk the first trillionaire when his companies, combined, lose money?
Cult capitalism. The market prices the future he promises as if it already arrived. He’s a pitch-deck trillionaire holding his companies hostage: lose Musk, lose the premium, and the boards know it.
Plus the corruption.
If you thought professional diplomacy informed by experts was bad, get a load of the opposite
Mars bees!
(Not really Mars bees.)
(Probably.)
Redid my pedal board. Got a doomboard from does it doom because I love doom and purple.
Redid my pedal board. Got a doomboard from does it doom because I love doom and purple.