JuveJay

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brits use such dumb terms for basic things. Hamper instead of a basket lol
Just one of many examples where we have retained a particular French/Anglo-Norman version.

Calling it a "basket" here would be too non-descriptive. "Gift basket" works the same but I suspect the Victorians are to blame for "hamper" being used in the modern day.
 

AFL_ITALIA

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brits use such dumb terms for basic things. Hamper instead of a basket lol
It sounds so un-serious at all times. How are you going to tell me "put the sixpence in the Christmas pudding on sir-up Sunday" is a real sentence that means something? The fuck is a "twelfth cake?"

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"Hamper" always referred to the basket that dirty clothes go into in my household.
 
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Anyone else fascinated about assembly theory as I am?

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I'm not necessarily fascinated by it. Actually never heard of it. But this is very much up my alley to be honest. Natural patterns of systemic attractors that operate at scale that you'd never notice at the micro-level of reductionism: can't see the forest for the trees.

I'm all about the forest these days. F**k trees.

Just one of many examples where we have retained a particular French/Anglo-Norman version.

Calling it a "basket" here would be too non-descriptive. "Gift basket" works the same but I suspect the Victorians are to blame for "hamper" being used in the modern day.
So like the 19 eskimo words for snow, the British have 19 words for variations of baskets. Tells you a lot about a culture right there. :p
 

icemaη

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It sounds so un-serious at all times. How are you going to tell me "put the sixpence in the Christmas pudding on sir-up Sunday" is a real sentence that means something? The fuck is a "twelfth cake?"

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"Hamper" always referred to the basket that dirty clothes go into in my household.
Imagine someone starting a sentence with "I was sat at a restaurant..." So damn confusing when the tenses get fucked.
 

JuveJay

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You guys been watching the original Mary Poppins with Dick van Dyke again. No one here says those things or knows what a Twelfth Night cake is.

But then the modern generation can't speak properly or use correct grammar, and are heavily influenced by American media and less so by lots of other minority cultures, so nothing would surprise me.
 

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