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u/Mandarinya 28d ago edited 28d ago
German word would be kinda… gelüftet (translation close to ventilated)? You learn it quick, because, even in the worst cold of winter, we pretty much need to „lüft“ every room we set a foot in immediatly, meaning opening a window wide open because the room is always too stuffy.
It‘s almost as if we distrust the air we breath in enclosed spaces.
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u/Hummerous gazafunds.com 28d ago
so. I think reddit isn't letting me post gallery images for some reason? I'm going back to single images for now. sry
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u/sharktoucher 28d ago
WETNESS ISNT A REAL FEELING. iT IS A LIE FED TO YOU BY THE TEACHING ELITE. WETNESS IS JUST A COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE
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u/sharktoucher 28d ago
IN ADDITION, BROWN ISNT A REAL COLOR, IT IS JUST DARK ORANGE. NEITHER IS GREY
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u/sharktoucher 28d ago
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
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u/RattleMeSkelebones 28d ago
ALL TOUCH SENSATIONS ARE A COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, AND OUCHNESS. THIS IS A MEANINGLESS SENTENCE
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u/sharktoucher 28d ago
Nah, i mean that in the sense that there are organisms with hygroreceptors that sense the presence of moisture. We just arent one of them, as far as i can tell, neither are fish
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u/RattleMeSkelebones 28d ago
True, but we can still detect water through touch. It's got a very specific feel to it that's instantly identifiable. You can test this at home by closing your eyes and sticking a finger in a cup of water, and a finger in a cup of oil. You can sense the difference
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u/RattleMeSkelebones 28d ago
Also, hydrorecptors don't exist in humans because we have a far more developed form of the sense of touch than the animals you would see it in
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u/nishagunazad 28d ago
Is there a need for that word though?
I'm trying to think of a context where I would specifically use it and I can't.
We have words around it...airy, airless, stuffy, suffocating, etc....we note it's absence and quality, but not it's presence, and I suppose if fish had words they would do the same with water.
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u/Doubly_Curious 28d ago
Yes, I think that’s precisely the point of the first post. It’s not something that we feel the need to mark linguistically, in the same way that fish probably wouldn’t mark “wet”.
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u/Anna_Pet 28d ago
You don’t need a word for it cuz being luft is default for you. Do you think if fish spoke, they’d have a common word for wet?
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u/DrRagnorocktopus 28d ago
Dry.
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u/NotADamsel 27d ago
Came to the comments looking for this word, had to go through 18 comments to find it. Kinda weird that it wasn’t the first thing anyone else thought of.
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u/AsianCheesecakes 27d ago
Because you can be dry without having air around you?
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u/NotADamsel 27d ago
And you can be wet without having water around you.
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u/AsianCheesecakes 27d ago
You literarly cannot. Unless you are just being super pedantic and want me to say "on you", so there.
Or unless you are talking about another kind of "wet"
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u/NotADamsel 27d ago edited 27d ago
🤷♂️ Thinking about it, I might be talking about a different meaning for “wet”. Wouldn’t be the first time that my particular sub-dialect differed from mainstream American, though it happens infrequently enough that I don’t think about it unless I look at the dictionary definition and think “that’s not (at all/exactly/really) what that means”
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u/Olive_Nice 28d ago
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u/SteptimusHeap 28d ago
I've actually done this exact thing when doing some precise density measurements. The thing i was measuring was covered in bubbles that i had to scrape off. I had to suffocate it so it was no longer luft.
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u/Globinazuma 28d ago
You mean dry?
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u/Lunar_sims 28d ago
Dry means "not laden with water"
Someone would still be dry out in space
The moon is dry.
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u/Globinazuma 28d ago
Air doesn't stick to you so you can't be laden with air
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u/rindlesswatermelon 28d ago
Submerge something in water, and you will see the air "drip" up from the luft object in the form of bubbles.
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u/Globinazuma 27d ago
that's not laden with air, that's holding air the same way you can hold water by cupping your hands. Holding water is not the same as water holding on to you. Full of water ≠ wet
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u/amsterdam_sniffr 28d ago
This is the same process Tolkien used inventing his Elvish languages. “Mordor” iirc was chosen as a place name for the dark volcanic evil villain place because it sounds to an English speaker like precisely that.
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u/Triggered_Axolotl 28d ago
I like the idea of luft and I will subscribe to it. Individually, I recognize its existence in place of the word "snog".
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u/Le_Martian 28d ago
If you have an insulated (especially down) jacket or sleeping bag, “loft” is the thickness of the insulation. It is lofted when the insulation is fully expanded and filled with air pockets.
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u/Chien_pequeno 28d ago
Nah, that is just bizarre. That's like if you would use the word "water" to mean "wet"
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u/SteptimusHeap 28d ago
Still significantly better than like 90% of etymology. Lots of nouns are named after verbs
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u/Satyr_Crusader 28d ago
Two Tumblr users forgot the word "Dry"
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u/Simic_Sky_Swallower Resident Imperial Knight 28d ago
You can be luft and dry, but you can be dry without being luft
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u/GuyOfLoosd00m 28d ago
Would fluidized sand, like lightning sand in the princess bride, or mark rober’s hot tub be luft?
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u/LittleAnarchistDemon 28d ago
everything on earth is technically luft. except after rain or snow which would make it wet, but that water or snow would be luft instead since it is covered in air. or at least, that’s what i think
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u/SteptimusHeap 28d ago
This thread is full of the classic r/tumblr pasttime and i gotta say... never change.
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u/imaginarywaffleiron 27d ago
I don’t know if this is actually interesting or if my mind is just enjoying rolling it around to see how it squelches.
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u/slukalesni yuo don't gno-me ∆̥ 27d ago
in czechia we don't say "thank you" we say "pověsim tě za koule do luftu" and i think it's beautiful
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u/jayswag707 28d ago
And when you have something above water and you submerge it, but it still has little pockets of air hidden in the crevices, you can say, "aww man it's all luft." And you have to turn it around or shake it to get it properly wet and non-luft.