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[–] Sunschein@piefed.social 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I lol'd

The actual origin is almost as goofy. "'Wisconsin' (originally 'Meskonsing') is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river"

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It always comes back to rivers

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But the German W sounds like a V. Wein, Wissenschaftler, Weiß, all start with a V sound.

I hear a lot of Germans say this but I do hear a difference between the English V and the German W. They don't sound exactly alike. Sounds more like a [Κ‹] sound in German which is a bit more in between.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A "pro" is the opposite of a "con", so what's the opposite of progress?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was looking for "congress", and while that is currently controlled by Republicans, there's been some Democrat congresspersons that have worked that side of the ratchet in the past.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Republicans drive the Overton window Ratchet or not, there wouldn't be rightward movement if they didn't exist.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's called Wisconsin because when the, the she on the on my con sin

[–] Zkuld@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Aneurismpost it this when see the read the with con sin

[–] s@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

β€œSin” means without in Spanish, but β€œsyn” is derived from with in Greek

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Withwithwithwith

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Unrelated to meme:

But, did you know: You can make so that the meme has a spacing at the bottom, so the "imgflip.com" goes into the bottom spacing, then you just crop out the entire bottom space along with the "imgflip.com" watermark lol

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't, but will do that next time! Thanks

[–] kingblaaak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Where are the Wisconsin 6s at

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'll never understand why (mostly older) Germans keep replacing unvoiced English th with unvoiced s, when f is right there.

Logically it's because voiced th is replaced with voiced s (aka English z) in a German accent, but that actually makes some sense phonetically. Still strange how historical German speakers pretty consistently replaced the archaic voiced th with d in later forms of German while modern Germans completely ignore that when it comes to English, though.