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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Wait until you learn about Torpenhow Hill.

  • Tor, from Old English torr, meaning hill.
  • Pen, from Celtic *penn, meaning hill.
  • How, from Danish hoh, meaning hill.
  • Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

^Unfortunately,^ ^it's^ ^not^ ^actually^ ^a^ ^real^ ^official^ ^name^ ^for^ ^a^ ^hill,^ ^though^ ^it^ ^could^ ^be...^

[–] FreshLight 29 points 5 months ago

Hill, from English hill, meaning hill.

Fucking love it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a neighborhood in Cartagena, Spain, that is called Nueva Cartagena, which basically means new new new city

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Naming cities like boomers name their documents

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You gotta remove the ^ behind each word

^unfortunately vs ^unfortunately^

Edit nvm it's Infinity's fault apparently

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I don't know what client you're using, but this displays correctly on lemmy-ui and Jerboa, and it matches the Lemmy markdown syntaxt as documented. I'd suggest requesting your client fix its renderer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Clients seem to interpret the markdown differently. It displays correctly on the main desktop site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They asked several people what it was and wrote down all the answers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That basically is exactly how this sort of thing comes about, only spread out over time.