Adria: The first Polish language encyclopaedia (published 1746) included definitions such as: "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is." The phrase is still used in Poland to humorously say that there’s no point in discussing obvious things.

The first Polish language encyclopaedia (published 1746) included definitions such as: "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is." The phrase is still used in Poland to humorously say that there’s no point in discussing obvious things.

I’ve deleted the second part of this post. Those who are interested in arguing for the sake of arguing can do it in their own notifications.

Well, I am interested in arguing, but there's no sense beating a dead horse.

Sorry for blowing up your notifs! I forgot bsky doesn't let us deselect who gets notified in thread responses 😭

It’s ok Jessie, you’ve made quite a few really good points there! Unfortunately, I forgot that there’s no way to have a conversation on the internet without name calling, and throwing accusations that have no reflection in reality. I will stay in my lane from now on.

Thank you, and for what it's worth I don't think you said anything that was stepping out of your lane! People get heated very very quickly, it sucks they were being so rude to you.

I got dragged into it too, by responding to one of Adria's complainants, who orchestrated a Corbynista Flying Monkey attack* where they tried a pile-on with me. I engaged for a while until it had people's first message to me being unfiltered abuse, then had a block-fest! *sounds like an album name

Late to the party and having trouble imagining how this post turned controversial! I applaud your notification self care tho

this is going in my vocabulary immediately, thank you

From the same book: "Defeating the dragon is hard, but you have to try." Which also seems relevant here.

I will need a bigger sword.

Or a bazooka.

Or a pair of bazookas

Interesting. I'm just reading about early English dictionaries and they had pretty much the same definition for "dog"

“Not a cat.”

Almost ;) - "a common animal, known to all"

Are you trying to tell me that you haven’t read Mr SO Baldrick’s magnum opus?

D'oh.

From Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary”?

That was just the start of a definition, which took 1.5 pages in total: pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ko%C5%8...

Koń jaki jest, każdy widzi – Wikicytatypl.wikiquote.org

Which gives “achievements” of various horses.

Not just that.

Strč prst skrz krk! My fave Czech phrase. No vowels.

🎶 A horse is a horse, of course, of course 🎶

Jay Livingston – Mister Ed Themegenius.com Mister Ed Theme Lyrics: Prrrr! / (talk) / Hello, i'm Mr. Ed! / A horse is a horse, of course, of course / And no one can talk to a horse of course / That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous ...

Oh this right now PLEASE

LOVE

Not many philosophers in Poland, I take?

They don’t bother with such trivial matters 😉

I once heard about this guy named Newton who got really fascinated about how objects always fall down when they are dropped...

What does gingerbread have to do with a windmill?

(Only loosely tangential, but it's so rare I get to share this) I had an English-to-Lao dictionary which contained this gem. Brackets indicate translated Lao: "cowherd: [person who raises cattle]" "cowboy: [person who raises cattle in Texas]" Sadly I lost the book itself, so no photo proof :(

i'm gonna get a lot of use out of this.

That's so Polish! 🤣🤣🤣

In 1746 there were v v few everyones ;))p

Fantastic. What is the phrase in Polish?

Koń, jaki jest, każdy widzi.

Sweet -- Dziękuję!

Made me laugh out loud in public - thank you!

#visionscience Vision scientists stare in William James

So, then the definition of ED must be a talking horse?

What's Polish for, "of course, of course?"

I'm half Polish, never heard that one before 😆 🏇

This is awesome, I really enjoyed this post. Plus I learned something. Very cool.

It's more about appearance and features of this particular horse rather than horses in general ;)

“Why do they say ‘unicorn’? That’s confusing. Why not use ‘unihorse’?” Because “unihorse” would mean one horse, which is how many a horse already is.

I think it was more like; Horse: anyone can see what it is like *a picture of a horse* Either way it's very funny.

No, it wasn’t.

No, right, there was no picture. I think I had it mixed up with Buffon.

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