- Senseless ( @Senseless@feddit.de ) English21•4 months ago
As non-native english speaking person that’s highly fascinating.
- NeatNit ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) English10•4 months ago
I think this is more to do with scientists’ definitions than English in general. See also: what is and isn’t a nut, what is and isn’t a vegetable, is there such thing as a fish.
- buttfarts ( @buttfarts@lemy.lol ) English6•4 months ago
It feels so liberating to hear it just said out loud
- ThirdWorldOrder ( @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
I’ve never heard of a Fen before
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English3•4 months ago
Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?
- ThirdWorldOrder ( @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ) English2•4 months ago
Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English2•4 months ago
I think I have only heard the term in:
- The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
- The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent
I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps
- Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@beehaw.org ) English2•4 months ago
You are not reading enough fantasy books, then.
- ThirdWorldOrder ( @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
That’s because the old Something Awful forums ruined fantasy books back for me in the early 2000’s when the big series was ASOIAF. Going from GRRM to Sanderson, Hobbs, Abercrombie etc… just doesn’t hit the same. It’s like going from crack to whippets.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English1•4 months ago
Martin is crap compared to Sanderson
- ThirdWorldOrder ( @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ) English4•4 months ago
We can go settle this in the parking lot
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English2•4 months ago
Nah let’s have a space dogfight about it. I’ll pilot one of Sanderson’s many awesome spaceships, and you pilot something Martin wrote.
- Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@beehaw.org ) English1•4 months ago
… not wrong.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) English4•4 months ago
So, it would be a swampy bog and a marshy fen, but not a boggy swamp or a fenny marsh?
- NeatNit ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•4 months ago
I forgot already before I started writing this comment
- milicent_bystandr ( @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months ago
Huh, TIL
- blackbrook ( @blackbrook@mander.xyz ) English2•4 months ago
i love when scientists take a swamp of arbitrary language terms and decide to impose some arbitrary specific meanings on them for purposes of their specific discipline and then convince people who don’t really get how language works (i.e. most people) that the definitions are authoritative. it’s fun to watch the cognitive dissonance when this collides with actual usage and people get all angry and righteous.
- BurnedDonut ( @BurnedDonut@ani.social ) English2•4 months ago
And me still not giving a Fuck…
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English1•4 months ago
I fucking hate Tumblr users
- xeekei ( @xeekei@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
Further evidence that the Marshbadge and the Soulbadge were accidentally switched.