Name a common name, not a binomial, for some particular species of bacterium.

OK, name a specific animal whose name comes from a word meaning "animal" in the general sense.

My turn.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Noop.

The close-voters don't seem to be relenting.

Entozoa.

wildebeest.

bête noire

homunculus

animalcule

You're not even trying. I'll give you a hint: its lineage stretches back to proto-Germanic.

So much for homunculi.

Stop dissing hobbits.

Deer?

Do I need the Denham Tracks?

Deer does not mean animal in the general sense in English, only in Dutch.

"Comes from".

Oh, that is mean.

Is either word in English?

Back to reading-comprehension class for you, Mister.

Moment.

Ah that’s better.

@Cerberus That's a bingo.

> Old English deor "animal, beast," from P.Gmc. *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (cf. Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal," also cf. reindeer), from PIE *dheusom "creature that breathes," from root *dheu- (1) "cloud, breath" (cf. Lithuanian dusti "gasp," dvesti "gasp, perish;" Old Church Slavonic dychati "breathe").

Dheu...

I keep getting timed out.

I can't think of any other reflexes.

Oh, that sucks.

Perhaps fume?

Mink comes from a word that meant “a stinking animal in Finland”.

And a beaver was “a brown animal”.

Perfectly rational.

You know what a cameleopard is, right?

> Cameleopard is the old name for the giraffe. Eventually it was called giraffe after the Arabic word zirafah, "tallest of them all".

Giraffa camelopardalis

The Romans remembered.

Hmm fume does come from dheu-...but is it the same dheu-?

62 behind Arqade. Talk about gamers just having a different sleeping cycle.

And IT Security are catching up.

Hmm EWN says the origin of Proto-Germanic *dheusom/dheuza is uncertain. No *dheu-.

What are you doing?

On the plus side, Physics and SciFi have struck the sails.

Oh my goodness, I found another brock! A bauson is a brock.

@Cerberus couting hats.

Counting, even.

And a bident is a two-year-old sheepling.

Crazy.

And a bacon lover's gift basket is a wonderful thing.

And a chilver is a girl-lamb. Well, a baby ewe.

There an ablaut in there from calf.

Nutty but true: gophers and gaufrettes are etymologically connected.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I want a flexible AMOLED screen! No more breaking! We will have such screens in phones in a few years, mark my words.

> Microsoft heeft in een blogposting laten weten dat het in Outlook 2013 niet langer mogelijk is om xls- en doc-bestanden te importeren die afkomstig zijn uit Office 97 tot en met Office 2003.

In Outlook 2013, you can no longer import .doc and .xls files.

So stupid.

Outlook sucks.

Surely everyone has .doc files lying around on his computer?

Of course. I have never used Outlook.

And I wouldn't know what you would want to import office files in it for.

But the presumption that people are no longer using .doc files is idiotic.

Trying to force update cycles and newer version on people?

@Cerberus I don’t even know what that means.

Are there tariffs involved? What does it mean to “import” a file into a mail-reader, anyway?

It means you let it read a file in a format that it is not normally designed to work with.

Why would a mail-reader want to read something that is not mail?

I don’t understand. Honestly.

I do not see why it matters.

You use different programs to handle different files, not the same program for everything.

These are almost too funny to edit away into oblivion. Almost, but maybe not quite.

@tchrist I don't understand it either.

I think maybe to import address books stored in .xls or something.

Oh. That might be part of it.

@JohanLarsson Haha, that sounds very strange.

Some people are just crazy.

Which ones?

One should use them as sunglasses instead.

@JasperLoy Don’t you think that is by intent?