Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThe awkwardly adorable way seals move on land is called "galumphing"thumbs.gfycat.comimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1614arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1608arrow-down1imageThe awkwardly adorable way seals move on land is called "galumphing"thumbs.gfycat.comWolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoWell if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll. (“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)
minus-squareSanctus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoDo people actually pronounce it qork?
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoMurray Gell-Mann did (the guy who named them for anyone unaware). The general opinion seems to have been similar to that of the guy who invented the gif however: just because he named it doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong about how it is pronounced.
Well if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll.
(“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)
Do people actually pronounce it qork?
Murray Gell-Mann did (the guy who named them for anyone unaware). The general opinion seems to have been similar to that of the guy who invented the gif however: just because he named it doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong about how it is pronounced.