▲ 170 ▼ One Angry Man (sh.itjust.works) submitted 1 year ago by pseudo@jlai.lu to c/crows@lemmy.ml 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) https://vocabularypoint.com/collective-nouns-for-crows/ I'm speechless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals... permalink fedilink source parent [–] oeil@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 point 1 year ago* Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) https://vocabularypoint.com/collective-nouns-for-crows/ I'm speechless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals... permalink fedilink source parent [–] oeil@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 point 1 year ago* Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oeil@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 point 1 year ago* Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome. permalink fedilink source parent
