Start pronouncing it ‘nucular’, there’s no bigger turn off.
Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.So the PIE for little nut would be something like *knewelós
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn’t claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I’ve always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
so this is lemmy’s “science memes” huh
Edit: /nm
What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?
I like science memes like this.What’s stopping you from posting it exactly? You didn’t like the thing that I posted. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I’m pretty sure I got it from this community and I don’t want to repost. I believe reposts ruined reddit and I don’t want the same thing to happen to lemmy.
Bots ruined reddit. Reposts there were bad because there were bots behind them. Human reposts are usually fine if it’s not something that gets reposted every day.
I’m intrigued by the broccoli.
just wait till they ruin it like linux memes with femboys and socks and other garbage :(
Forbidden take
Stupid sexy Nuclear Engineer!
Sounds like a honeytrap, those Furries must be up to something
I seem to be attracted to musicians more than any other hobby or profession. If you can sing or play an instrument, it makes me wet af.
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Are you painted blue while doing this?
Not as blue as my balls waiting for him to finish playing
Even the folks who bring out a guitar in every gathering they participate?
I love Wonderwall! 😍
Don’t get the question. Sounds like telling people you’re a nuclear engineer is working out well.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don’t make the rules.
I attract lawyers.
I, too, like to commit crimes
It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)
You guys just hate furries…
yes.
Maybe don’t brag about your job.
We don’t know if they were bragging or not. It’s pretty common to ask what someone’s job is during small talk. For all we know they literally just said their job title and left it at that.
Guy did say it like five times in one paragraph, just in case people forgot it before they finished reading his post.
If i were a nuclear engineer, everyone around me wouldn’t hear the end of it
I think bragging about how much money or education you have is very low class. I also think this is how you end up with a golddigger wife. Better to hide your wealth.
Don’t go to bars in Seattle?
Hmm, maybe you should become a vampire. That usually does the trick.
Breeder reaction 😳
