r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 9h ago

Video An incredible variety of moths attracted to an illuminated sheet. This technique is called light sheeting

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u/thewebspinner 9h ago

Where does the word walk come from though?

Doesn’t have anything to do with legs, feet, ankles etc. might as well be called extra low flying with ground contact.

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u/PunsGermsAndSteel 9h ago

The art of walking was named after its inventor, Christopher Walken.

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u/drunkcowofdeath 9h ago

Invented in 1974 when he was moving his leg muscles to move from one place to another and a police officer said "Hey, who are you and what are doing?" and he replied:

"I'm Walken, here."

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u/DigNitty Interested 8h ago

I remember this. Everyone thinks it happened in New York, but it actually happened in Papua New Guinea and everyone was very confused.

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u/WenAndNow 7h ago

Back then G and Y used to be a lot closer.

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u/BacksightForesight 9h ago

Oddly enough, Walken is apparently correct!
“walk(v.)
"travel on foot," c. 1200, walken, a merging and sense-shift of two verbs: 1. Old English wealcan "to toss, roll, move round" (past tense weolc, past participle wealcen), and 2. wealcian "to roll up, curl." Both are from Proto-Germanic \welk-* (source also of Old Norse valka "to drag about," Danish valke "to full" (cloth), Middle Dutch walken "to knead, press, full" (cloth), Old High German walchan"to knead," German walken "to full"), and perhaps ultimately from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, revolve."”

https://www.etymonline.com/word/walk

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u/Justhe3guy 5h ago

“I’m walken’ here!”

Omg it all makes sense now

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u/buttersofthands 8h ago

Pantera. Can't you see how easily you're bothered by persistence?

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u/GetSome1776 8h ago

One step from lashing out at you!

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u/MasterChildhood437 6h ago

Where does the word walk come from though?

The ancient word "walg" after many different cultural evolutions. "Walg" means roughly "to move."

For future word origins, you would look into etymology, which is the study of the historical and cultural development of words.

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u/cefriano 6h ago

Controlled tripping.