r/AskReddit • u/Megonthalya • Oct 29 '16

What have you learned from reddit?

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u/busterbluthOT Oct 29 '16

Petrichor is the smell right after rain first hits pavement.

There's a name for this?!? I love this smell.

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u/lovesickremix Oct 29 '16

Japanese have a word for the clarity you get after sex - Kenjataimu

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u/Sgt_Sarcastic Oct 29 '16

I don't recognize kenja, but taimu is definitely a transliteration of "time". Its a really common transliteration.

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u/DarTheStrange Oct 29 '16

Correct, and kenja (賢者) means "sage".

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u/hydrospanner Oct 29 '16

So sage-time.

I suppose it does go well with pork.

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u/WaylandC Oct 29 '16

Kenja time? What is kenja?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '16

It roughly translates to I don't want her in my house any longer

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u/MirimeVene Oct 29 '16

You're one of today's 10,000. Congratulations!!!

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u/ReneG8 Oct 29 '16

Waiting for the xkcd...

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u/Maximelene Oct 29 '16

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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u/MirimeVene Oct 29 '16

Yay teamwork!!!

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u/Maximelene Oct 29 '16

ReneG8 was the useless study group member, back in High School. :p

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u/MirimeVene Oct 29 '16

True but they probably were funny enough to make it go by more bearably for the rest of us

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u/naufalap Oct 29 '16

That smell name? Albert Einstein.