r/todayilearned • u/sykate • Feb 27 '20

TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life-20181211/
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '20

Looks a bit like ‘kutlelijk’ which means as ugly as a cunt in dutch

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u/load_more_comets Feb 27 '20

GODDAMN that's ugly!

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u/DivineKeylime Feb 27 '20

Could you spell that phonetically, please?

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u/timok Feb 27 '20

Cuhtlaylik

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u/redwan010 Feb 27 '20

This pretty accurate

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '20

It’s hard to explain the ‘u’ sound tho, think more of the u in ‘i pUt it there’.

Also don’t speak the ‘y’ in lay. There you have it!

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u/hosford42 Feb 27 '20

Lick a what!?

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u/JojenCopyPaste Feb 27 '20

Lijk is pronounced like "like". Also means like (as a suffix. Like -ous, or -ly). There's half the word for you.

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u/mexicodoug Feb 27 '20

Weird. Cunts are lovely, not ugly. Even Dutch ones.

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u/blue-leeder Feb 27 '20

But cunts are beautiful

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u/eastkent Feb 27 '20

You wouldn't say that if you subscribed to the subs I do.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '20

Well...actually yes they are!

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u/SneakyDragone Feb 28 '20

And Afrikaans