• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    It’s even easier than that with most people I know

    They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just … stuff

    Flock of geese? … stuff

    A stack of books? … stuff

    group of cars? … stuff

    A planet? … stuff

    A solar system? … stuff

    A galaxy? … stuff

    A galactic neighbourhood? … stuff

    The universe? … stuff

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      6 hours ago

      Do those people count “one, two, many, lots”?

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      The universe? … stuff

      I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.

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      Sounds like German

      plane - flying stuff

      Lighter - fire stuff

      Vehicle - driving stuff

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        lol … I’m Indigenous Canadian and I speak my language Ojibway/Cree

        This made me realize that the modern things we named with our old language sounds like what you describe

        Aircraft -> kah-mee-nah-mee-kook … ‘the thing that flies’

        Helicopter -> kah-kee-noo-kah-wah-nas-kee-pee-nik … ‘the thing that turns fast’

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      I once knew a person that ended almost every sentence they could with, “and stuff”. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase since.

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        Thus “phenomenology” means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα – to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. And stuff”

        ― Martin Heidegger