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They would, but they also did. They were herbivores

To be clear I do not actually think that they were as stocky as that pic. Point is that for land animals, though, eating plants actually is often the way to being huge

There was no distinction between V and U when W first started being used. They were considered the same letter, with V just being the style for writing it at the start of words (like that long S that looks like an f). So you would write “have” as haue and “upon” as vpon.

When it was representing a consonant in classical Latin, it sounded like a modern English W. So the famous veni vidi vici - I came, I saw, I conquered - was pronounced more like wenee weedee weekee.

Eventually the V sound started to emerge in some places where Latin and its descendants had used that W sound before, and people started treating the two forms as different letters. By this point the W was already in widespread use, though, so whatever people already called it had a good chance of sticking

“WE CAN’T PROVE THEY WEREN’T HUGE FATBIRDS”

If anything on this Earth should look like a Jurassic Park dinosaur it’s hippos

Hippos and rhinos get pretty big on that diet! If anything plants are a better diet for something really chunky because plants cannot run away

The post was clearly written sometime in the 14th century when the UU digraph had become widespread but the U-V distinction had not. No wonder it is so yellowed, I’d say it’s actually in great condition for its age

I used to live near an ice cream shop that switched over to doing doughnuts and cookies in the winter

cos that’s a great name, next question

Einstein was secretly Scottish the whole time

wars

Fair enough! That’s not a field I’ve got any knowledge of

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh a-nis, ach cha robh sas bith agam an uairsin

What I should’ve done is tell her that Scotland invented English and they stole it from us. Aberdonians actually still speak the dialect of Shakespeare, who was so successful because he was the first to popularise the language in England. The English spoke French ever since the Norman invasion, after all

I studied in Glasgow and one of my absolute favourite memories of the place is hearing a South Asian looking guy talking on the phone in a language I didn’t understand or recognise… but I could still hear that he had a Glaswegian accent

Ironically, the most unbelievably stereotypically-American tourist thing I’ve ever witnessed was while I was in Germany. We started chatting while renting bikes, and upon learning that I was Scottish she remarked that she was surprised I spoke English

She seemed lovely otherwise

If the metal you listen to is power metal you actually go straight back to the top picture

Isn’t RPS “meant” to be a game rather than a way to decide randomly between two options? There’s an element of skill involved since you can attempt to avoid playing patterns and identify patterns in your opponent’s play in repeated rounds

Pretty sure the one time one lived longer than a week it became an early game Dark Souls boss

I couldn’t say much about it myself, but with it being a Germanic language influenced by Hebrew that would make sense

I don’t know which one HK65 is referring to, but I know a few examples:

• Punjabi, which is left-to-right in India and right-to-left in Pakistan (the Indian one being influenced by older Indian scripts and the Pakistani one by Arabic)
• Kazakh uses the RtL Arabic script in the part of China where there are a lot of Kazakhs and the LtR Cyrillic script in Kazakhstan
• At least some of the kinds of Tamazight (spoken by Amazigh people, mostly in Morocco and Algeria) use Arabic script, but there is a script specifically for Tamazight languages called Tifinagh which goes left to right and there’s also some use of the Latin alphabet for these languages