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Nim was originally “Nimrod.” It’s probably a play on that.
by boardwaalk 4y ago
Nim was originally “Nimrod.” It’s probably a play on that.
- cultofmetatron 4y agothe legendary hunter in the bible?
- googlryas 4y agoMore likely Elmer Fudd in more people's imagination
- silisili 4y agoFunny how that worked. Bugs called him Nimrod, a great hunter, sarcastically. Everyone today uses it to mean stupid/inept in any situation. Akin to one day, Einstein being known mostly as meaning 'idiot' rather than a physicist.
- wruza 4y agoI believe it’s more of American thing to put the opposite meaning into a word.
- ncmncm 4y agoUniversal human trait. Look up the history of the word "nice" in England, sometime. But no, it is not just an English-speaking phenomenon, either.
- wruza 4y agoRight, irony and sarcasm are universal (afaik). But I had in mind that americans tend to use e.g. “so bad” in a sense of “so good”, which is not so ubiquitous. (I’m only familiar with English, Russian, Deutsch and Tatar really, so my thought is limited to these four.)
- ncmncm 4y agoOne summer when I was at Bloomberg, there was an announcement that some interns had been assigned to implement an internet sarcasm detector, and that they had been completely successful. No one questioned it.
- ncmncm 4y agoBTW when I told my wife about this, she thought I meant they had been completely successful.
- amyjess 4y agoBugs Bunny is the source of a lot of weird misconceptions. Example: people think rabbits mostly eat carrots because Bugs Bunny likes to snack on them while leaning on something and saying "What's up, Doc?". Except Bugs doing that was a reference to a movie where Clark Gable... ate carrots while leaning on a fence and calling people Doc. And somehow a parody of a Clark Gable movie turned into most people believing that carrots are a staple of leporine diets.
- int_19h 4y ago> people think rabbits mostly eat carrots because Bugs Bunny likes to snack on them If that is the case, why is the misconception also widespread in countries where Bugs Bunny wasn't part of the popular culture? E.g. USSR/Russia.
- ashtonbaker 4y agoRabbits do actually love carrots.