• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Reading through Lovecraft’s (especially his earlier) work be like, “Hey Google! Define cacodaemoniacal…”

    You’re gonna need to know what gambrelled roofs and gables are too. Dude loved his gambrells and gables.

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        5 months ago

        Nah, Google would be like, "Sorry, I don’t understand. But I did find something else on the web. Did you mean “Cacodaemoniacal defined?”

        Edit: Whoops, accidentally pasted in that word I couldn’t remember how to spell.

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      Caco = shit (same as caca/kaka in many European languages

      Daemon = background program that does things without user input

      -iacal = suffix turning the above into an adjective

      So, Windows 11