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A bunch of collective nouns (lemmy.world)
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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks 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

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

The universe? … stuff

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

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

I never disagree with ol' Georgie

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Sounds like German

plane - flying stuff

Lighter - fire stuff

Vehicle - driving stuff

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks 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'

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

When the stuff hits your stuff like a very stuff stuff, that's stuff.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Do those people count "one, two, many, lots"?

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 4 weeks 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

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