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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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average falkner experience (i still love him)

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I did not enjoy my time in Violet City

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mess with The Horn and you get the. you get. the uhh. you get theee. um. give me a second it'll come eventually

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the crit ice fang actually kinda saved me thank you mermel

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He is not shiny but I cherish him all the same

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double creature feature (heracross you beautiful thing...)

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i havent posted in a Little while

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Growing up poor and hungry neglected and being called a bad kid for stealing or being angry

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Backshots? Tch! A warrior like me would never strike such a cowardly blow!

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This one goes out to that $300 shiny bubble mew card i'll never have

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great deals at thrifty megamart

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Tangrowth + Tangela

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Really loved this guy so much a real shooting star

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when a bad bitch pelts me with rocks!

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more pyaari everyone say hi to pyaari

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