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REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago

If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.

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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.

REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago
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    3 months ago

    Castle comes from French too.

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      Castles come from the French in general. Stone castles were a post Norman thing. Big wooden halls, Rohan style were the pre-Norman Norm

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        they’re also prenorman, the roman ones. some of which were still used into the norman era: i.e. the walls of York

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          That’s true but they’re not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I’m eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.

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        They might call it a c(a)ester, which I think is a parallel etymology with castle both from the Latin castrum.

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      It gets a pass, cuz we anglicized it well enough

      Here are some other French words that are anglicized well enough to be an English word of its own

      Eg. war, guard, sturdy

      If it was a cringe word like “rendez-vous” (showing all yourselves), castling would be ewww

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        Most war terms in English came from French on account of being conquered by the French via war

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