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TehBamski @lemmy.world

2y ago

Nicknames

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What if water is also the oldest nickname and its been so long that we forgot what the real name was
- Anyone who discovers water's actual name would have total power over it and command all the seas. Turns out water was actually an eldritch demon whose only purpose was to create a legion of legions of living creatures entirely dependent on it for their survival. One day the being that is water will be ready and their grander plans will see us all conquering the stars.
  
  I am Mr Nimbus!
  
  You need to relax, bud.
- Probably was like walterburg fluid and eventually simplified to waduh
- https://i.imgur.com/N6IYZm2.gif
- That's actually speculated to be the case with the word "bear." There was a superstition that saying its true name might summon it.
- Aqua
- Bears were the original voldemort
- Dihydrogen monoxide.
ITT: the reason water doesn't have a nickname.
- I dunno I kinda like Dr. Watts
I've heard a few old timers call it "Adam's Ale", so it has at least one
- me sippin on adams sweet ale 🤤
Fun fact: one of the oldest languages with an interpretation of the word "water" is Sumerian from over 3500 years ago.
It was pronounced "ay"
(like Fonzi, not eye)
- I’m betting there are many languages which predate that (which we don’t know of) that all have words for water.
You never heard a white guy mishandle some Spanish and call it "Aw Gwa"?
H2Oh yeah
H2flOw (stolen from my wife)
- Ooooh. My wife is apparently a comedy thief.
- ~~Give your wife a high five for me. This one is solid.~~
  Apparently, this is @ZooGuru@lemmy.world 's wife.
  
  No no, it's liquid.
  
  You mean, a fivy?
  
  Also their wife:
  
  Done and done.
I'd a mate that called it council pop.
It was grandfathered in from when there was no competition, and therefore no need for nicknames. "I need a drink" simply meant water. The beverage.
- I play games with friends and between matches I always say "brb getting a drink". And you're right, it's always water.
  Stay hydrated
sky juice
Some of that double-H O
People buy so many different fancy drinks... For me just tap is enough.
- tank > tap. (personal opinion)
In Scotland it's called "Cooncil Juice"
- The Dutch use "gemeente pils" which means local government beer. So that is pretty similar.
  
  True, but there shouldn't be a space between the words. Gemeentepils
Faucet dew? Plumbweiser? No water puns in Englishland?
Edit: Fountain dew!
I’m hydrating?
- congrats
Good ol' "Wawa."
Pretty sure the nickname it gets is "H20"
- A molecule with 20 hydrogens?
Wawa? H²0? The drink (golf term)?
When my little sister was about 3 she would only drink juice. One night i grabbed the juice pitcher, an empty jar and pretended too mix up some juice for her (we always had the frozen juice concentrate), as i poured a glass for her she asked what kind of juice is was. I said 'it is clear juice.'
I am in my 40s now, and she still asks me if i want a glass of clear juice.
- My preschool teacher called it "sky juice."
  
  I grew up in the desert, but our ground water is really high (places where it is wet at 13”). We probably would have called it ground juice instead.
Round where I'm from (north of England) people call it "council pop". I suppose the equivalent for the US would be "EPA soda" or "state cola" or something.
moist
- Gonna grab me some moist.
Gimme some of that cleary deary
Gimme a chug of the ole fish breath
- "Water? Never touched the stuff. Fish fuck in it."
Liquid life is nice, but the only time I heard it was when referring to coffee.
It's been called Adam's Ale since at least 1643 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_ale
Coochie juice lol
You could take the old 'would you support a ban on dihydrogen monoxide' thing a bit further and end up with:
Dihymo. (Die-Hai-Mo)
There ya go. Dumb nickname for water.
- Surprised someone hasn’t used that for a bottled water brand
- Earth-juice is more fitting.
  Comet-vomit is when you projectile vomit.
  
  Earth-Juice makes me think of this legendary commercial.
- sky juice is what they call drinking water in some parts of Malaysia.
I mean, I say gimme a glass of h2o. I mean... I know it's the atoms but it's kinda a nickname.
- It's an even more formal name.
  
  It's "Sir H2O" to get the right amount of formal.
I thought it was called sky juice or cloud juice these days.
Blue dolphin
That dihydrogen monoxide is gonna kill us all.
council pop
Aqua

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