two years ago I made the cake blue, for Thomas, but the engine shape is really very dissimilar to those trains so now I just make it look train-like. But it will still take about 8 hours work.
I'm not a very fast decorator, given that I only do it like 2x/year
It was probably just too dry. Maybe just overcooked, even. I don't really recall. Not that it was awful. But it's a little incongruous to have a cake that looks super amazing but tastes meh.
Forgotten.stackexchange.com ? Might be worth setting up. Help my other half find her keys. Although the amount of duplicate posts would get out of hand.
@Mitch I'd only support this if SE gives answers a way to just create a list of options. List questions tend to attracted answers with lots of answers in the single answer post and it makes voting/accepting really confusing
@rAsHmI well, in some languages, notably Chinese and Japanese, native speakers often find it hard to differentiate between l and r as native English speakers pronounce them. So they get mixed up.
> All the unfenced elephants in our sample had distinct ‘home sec- tors’ linked by ‘travel’ corridors. Within each home sector the elephants concentrated in favourite ‘core zones’. Such core zones tended to lie in protected areas whereas corri- dors typically crossed unprotected range. Elephants moved significantly faster along corridors than elsewhere in their range, which suggests awareness of danger outside the pro- tected area.
> Elephants frequently come into contact with two local tribes in Amboseli National Park: the Kamba, an agricultural group that poses little threat, and the Maasai, who frequently clash with elephants over land and water thanks to their nomadic herding lifestyle. An earlier study showed that elephants here can discriminate between the clothes worn by these two groups via color and scent, but a new paper in PNAS finds that they are capable of even more subtlety when it comes to auditory information. Elephants can distinguish between different subgroups of humans based on vocal cues, using th…
Etymonline gives the etymology of testify as
...from testis "a witness".. + root of facere "to make"... Biblical sense of "openly profess one's faith and devotion" is attested from 1520s. Related: Testified; testifying; testification. (also, testament, intestate, etc.)
In Biblical times, to...
@oerkelens I suppose. If mannequin ever came to mean "man", then it'd be a non-diminuitive word formed from the diminuitive (in a different language) of the word it replaced.
@Cerberus: but can it not be that the guys thingees have that name because they are witness to his masculinity?
It seems the Romans had weird ideas anyway, since penis meant tail.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The current use is a dummy used in fashion industry in English) which is gender neutral. In Dutch we back-loaned it to mean the models on the catwalk (male and female). In that case it was back-formed from a diminuative :)
The primary decent word in Latin for cōleī was testēs (sing. testis). This word may have derived (although the etymology is uncertain[1]) from the plain Latin for "witnesses" (as in English attest, testify, testament and testimony); a man swore an oath upon what he held dearest; or, his testicles were witnesses to his virility. Cicero's letter again says "testes" verbum honestissimum in iudicio, alio loco non nimis.
("In a court of law, witnesses is a quite decent word; not so elsewhere.") The diminutive testiculī was entirely confined to the anatomical sense, and supplied the English word testicles and testicular, as well as its Romance equivalents.
Etymonline gives the etymology of testify as
...from testis "a witness".. + root of facere "to make"... Biblical sense of "openly profess one's faith and devotion" is attested from 1520s. Related: Testified; testifying; testification. (also, testament, intestate, etc.)
In Biblical times, to...
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