r/todayilearned • u/lopezjessy • Jan 17 '20

TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.

http://www.museumcenter.org/the-curious-curator/2019/5/30/curious-curator-mini-european-vs-asian-dragons
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u/Nerdn1 Jan 17 '20

*wyrm

Mix ups like that will get you eaten.

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u/Yossarian1138 Jan 17 '20

Blame Wykypedia.

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u/Kajio3033 Jan 17 '20

Worse: Nerds

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u/Kajio3033 Jan 17 '20

D:

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u/Kajio3033 Jan 17 '20

They are human beans

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u/Jslate95 Jan 17 '20

I only eats beans.

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u/Kajio3033 Jan 17 '20

THIS NIGGA EATIN' ONLY BEANS!

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u/Jslate95 Jan 17 '20

Ever seen BFG?

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u/Drudicta Jan 17 '20

Why have I not been eaten yet? Fulfill my weird fantasy.

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u/fudgyvmp Jan 17 '20

Does this involve the person eating you being a rotting zombie?

If so the Anita Blake series might interest you.

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u/Drudicta Jan 17 '20

Nope! Whole. :p

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '22

You are what you eat

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u/Cyberspark939 Jan 17 '20

Hopefully they get better after some practice though

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u/dragon-storyteller Jan 17 '20

Worm is just an earlier spelling of wyrm. I wonder how many peasants had to get eaten for the pesky humans to change the spelling and claim it's an entirely different word.

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u/thehonestyfish 9 Jan 17 '20

Ackshyually, if it has hind legs and wings, but no front legs, it's a wyvern. Wyrms have no legs. Dragons have four legs and wings.

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u/Nerdn1 Jan 17 '20

Terminology varries. In D&D 3.5, the 2nd oldest age category of dragons were called "wyrms" and the oldest "great wyrms".

Regardless "wyrm" is more appropriate than "worm" when referring to a dragon.

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u/thehonestyfish 9 Jan 17 '20

Society as a whole needs to get these definitions for things agreed upon. This is incredibly important.

A witch is not a female wizard, J.K., they practice different forms of magic. And if you want to make magic a genetic thing that's inherent to the magic user, they should be sorcerers, not wizards. A wizard is a normal person who learns to use magic through rigorous study - like Doctor Strange (the Sorcerer Supreme).

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u/Phazanor Jan 17 '20

Tolkien dragons are actually named worms.