Thinking about surnames. There seem an infinite number around the world, but in China there are only five-ish.
Another random thought. The family name Donjon is extremely rare in the United States, but it's very common in France. It's the word for a castle tower or keep. It's where we get our word dungeon. A tower and a basement are very different things, but that's how cognates sometimes work. #Genealogy
@poemblaze IIRC, they're about 25 years from just one in Japan or Korea.
@poemblaze "if I recall correctly."
@EnochianEntropy @poemblaze
Ah, these youngsters don't know the earlier acronyms 😘
@wolfwoman @EnochianEntropy I'm 58. You must be really old. 😏😂
@poemblaze @wolfwoman While not directed at me, I am younger than 58.
I've just been online for a long, terrible time.
@wolfwoman Interesting! @EnochianEntropy
@poemblaze @EnochianEntropy
#backintheday
I printed out pages of emoticons and acronyms because it was too much work to switch to a different file ... we didn't have GUIs and browsers and tabs, so it was actually work. 😂