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  1. Nate Cull (natecull)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 02:22:37 UTC Nate Cull Nate Cull
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    When you suddenly click that

    1) 'Silpheed/Sylpheed' (an email client, and a space shooter videogame series) is just Japanese mangled English for 'sylphid', better known as 'sylph'...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silpheed

    2) ... which was a word in the popular Romantic mythology of the 1700s-1800s era for 'airy nature spirit'...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylph

    3) ... but is itself fake Latin made up by the Swiss-German Paracelsus (1493-1541) to describe his theoretical alchemical entities

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus

    Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 02:22:37 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
    • p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ repeated this.
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