• IninewCrow
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    184 days ago

    It’s even easier than that with most people I know

    They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just … stuff

    Flock of geese? … stuff

    A stack of books? … stuff

    group of cars? … stuff

    A planet? … stuff

    A solar system? … stuff

    A galaxy? … stuff

    A galactic neighbourhood? … stuff

    The universe? … stuff

    • @[email protected]
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      114 days ago

      The universe? … stuff

      I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        3 days ago

        No, it’s my stuff, your shit. Whenever it’s mine, it’s stuff. Whenever it’s yours, it’s shit. ie. “Get your shit off the counter so I can put my stuff down.”

        Source: ol Gorgie Boy

      • IninewCrow
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        84 days ago

        lol … I’m Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree

        This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe

        Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook … ‘the thing that flies’

        Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik … ‘the thing that turns fast’

      • IninewCrow
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        14 days ago

        Yeah I know … like stuff … I dunno … shrugs shoulders and walks away

    • @otacon239
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      34 days ago

      I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.

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        44 days ago

        Thus “phenomenology” means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff”

        ― Martin Heidegger