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 (DIR) Post #AZZflDHIivfSo80fAm by BrianBinh@dice.camp
       2023-09-08T17:07:55Z
       
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       The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns. "He's drunk" is just a description."He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard". "Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZflE3roMW3EkjRs8 by jewelpit@dice.camp
       2023-09-08T17:13:04Z
       
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       @BrianBinh I love this etymology because it implies that at some point, someone from England met someone from Spain and all they could think was "this motherfucker is _too Spanish._"
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZflF5fz7YcQeaPKa by BrianBinh@dice.camp
       2023-09-08T17:20:59Z
       
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       @jewelpit That would be hilarious, but unfortunately "Spaniard" comes to English from French, where "-ard" is just a place name like "Picard".
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZflFuivKOGyyTAtk by jewelpit@dice.camp
       2023-09-08T17:43:01Z
       
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       @BrianBinh noooooooooooo 😭
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZflGcgHtYJBJ2HPk by lucifargundam@qoto.org
       2023-09-09T00:49:06Z
       
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       @jewelpit @BrianBinh Frenchman::: he's too English for our princess.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZgZkyBjUXzmPAeUS by tzarfenix@dice.camp
       2023-09-09T00:49:48Z
       
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       @BrianBinh Isaac Asimov actually had an introductory essay to a Wizards anthology where he wrote about this *at length*
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZgZljgssXq9jOaX2 by lucifargundam@qoto.org
       2023-09-09T00:58:14Z
       
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       @tzarfenix @BrianBinh Wiz-ardCow-ardBole-ard.....?Hack-ardShit-ardWhor-ardPoliti-ardDumb-ardSkimp-ard...?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZZo49OGCZ6Zswo1Sa by DrollTide@mastodon.social
       2023-09-09T02:22:10Z
       
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       @lucifargundam @tzarfenix @BrianBinh Trumptard
       
 (DIR) Post #AZaXLNs8e3s9ayK50C by Archivist@social.linux.pizza
       2023-09-09T08:01:05Z
       
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       @BrianBinh Is the wizard argument only valid in medieval times though? I have the distinct memory of being called a wizard in several occasions by a bunch of people, and that was BEFORE I hurled a fireball (thermite explosive) at them
       
 (DIR) Post #AZcsSuPQBBkGElxOLo by goose@fosstodon.org
       2023-09-10T13:55:36Z
       
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       @lucifargundam @tzarfenix @BrianBinh LardBlizzard LiddiardLingardLangardWillardGarrardBoard ScabbardShepardTowardAllardHardGuardBrowardForwardHowardMillardSowardSewardStewardMenardMustardDillardGillardHilliardWedard WindwardThis isn't working! Am I doing it wrong?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZcxC0wN8raTLH8IcK by tzarfenix@dice.camp
       2023-09-10T14:18:23Z
       
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       @goose @lucifargundam @BrianBinh Steward - this guy just makes too much stew
       
 (DIR) Post #AZcxC1wlOtUiSmK7rk by lucifargundam@qoto.org
       2023-09-10T14:48:34Z
       
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       @tzarfenix @goose @BrianBinh puddardHe makes too much pudding. If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?!
       
 (DIR) Post #AhJ2fdfTeiE3bJcaYK by bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com
       2023-09-08T18:43:46Z
       
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       @BrianBinh i don't know if I like this better if its true or if you made it up. Either way; top shelf.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhJ2fe643rUcvm3ozg by BrianBinh@dice.camp
       2023-09-08T19:03:26Z
       
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       @bluedragon It's actually true! Adding -ard to words in Middle English was equivalent to slang today adding -ass. A drunkard was a drunkass motherfucker. A dullard was a dullass motherfucker. A bollard was a bole (tree trunk)-ass thing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhJ2feTSesCy6L0VSi by foone@digipres.club
       2023-09-09T16:26:31Z
       
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       @BrianBinh @bluedragon and a wizard is a wise-ass motherfucker. Someone who knows so much stuff that now they can throw fireballs
       
 (DIR) Post #AhJ2ff4KRnhNwgFwvY by xyhhx@438punk.house
       2024-04-27T07:11:06Z
       
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       @foone a billiard is a shitty uh billy@BrianBinh @bluedragon
       
 (DIR) Post #AhK2Piatdl0BRwVQ6S by m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net
       2024-04-27T18:44:00.936753Z
       
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       @BrianBinhDoes this mean that lizard-people do not deserve our respect? Wow!Fuck you, Marc Zuckercorn! 🫠
       
 (DIR) Post #AhK2WWLDavCpTWPrFo by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2023-09-09T05:56:49.313072Z
       
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       @BrianBinh And I guess it regained a somewhat deprecating meaning with the "30 years old wizard" meme.