A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (2 weeks). The word derives from the Old English term fēowertyne niht, meaning "fourteen nights". Some wages and salaries are paid on a fortnightly basis; however, in North America it is far more common to use the term biweekly.
by Phoenix the primagen May 11, 2021
by Phoenix the primagen November 08, 2020
Note the ellipses. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce. The problem with including chemical names is that there’s essentially no limit to how long they can be. For example, naming a single strand of DNA, with its millions and millions of repeating base pairs, could eventually tab out at well over 1 billion letters.
METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL … ISOLEUCINE Is a very long word
by Phoenix the primagen March 08, 2021
the state of mind in which one is compelled to collect a certain category of objects (e.x. game consoles, books, etc), and will dig through old things to find random objects ti add to their collection
Joey caught a bad case of collector’s fever, recently he asked me if he could dig through my old games.
by Phoenix the primagen September 04, 2022
Strange planet is a comic series that focuses on aliens who speak in a way that dissociates the reader by not directly calling an object by its name (eg water cylinder, or pleasant nonsense). Created by Nathan W. Pyle in February 2019, it has gone on to have 2 books and at least one table-top game.
by Phoenix the primagen March 08, 2021
by Phoenix the primagen October 25, 2020
Canada just doesn’t exist
by Phoenix the primagen October 19, 2020