POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoWhat's your favorite unbelievable fact?message-squaremessage-square170linkfedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down12
arrow-up1146arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your favorite unbelievable fact?POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square170linkfedilink
minus-squareWoodScientist@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·4 months agoDue to two facts: The samurai class in Japan officially lasted way later than you probably think The earliest primitive fax machine existed much earlier than you probably think. It is technically possible for Abraham Lincoln to have received a fax from a samurai. There’s no evidence it ever happened, but it technically could have happened.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·4 months agoFor some reason that reminds me of how the first member of the Wampanoag tribe to greet the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, named Samoset, spoke to them in English. Then he came back later with another tribe member, Squanto, who also spoke English.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 months agoForever establishing American expectations when traveling overseas.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoisn’t english just the crab language that spontaneously comes into existence if given enough time?
Due to two facts:
The samurai class in Japan officially lasted way later than you probably think
The earliest primitive fax machine existed much earlier than you probably think.
It is technically possible for Abraham Lincoln to have received a fax from a samurai.
There’s no evidence it ever happened, but it technically could have happened.
For some reason that reminds me of how the first member of the Wampanoag tribe to greet the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, named Samoset, spoke to them in English. Then he came back later with another tribe member, Squanto, who also spoke English.
Forever establishing American expectations when traveling overseas.
isn’t english just the crab language that spontaneously comes into existence if given enough time?