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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Reading through Lovecraft's (especially his earlier) work be like, "Hey Google! Define cacodaemoniacal.."

You're gonna need to know what gambrelled roofs and gables are too. Dude loved his gambrells and gables.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Caco = shit (same as caca/kaka in many European languages

Daemon = background program that does things without user input

-iacal = suffix turning the above into an adjective

So, Windows 11

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I know how to pronounce that because I played DOOM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah, Google would be like, "Sorry, I don't understand. But I did find something else on the web. Did you mean "Cacodaemoniacal defined?"

Edit: Whoops, accidentally pasted in that word I couldn't remember how to spell.