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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It's why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

i suppose insects are entomonolingual

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Entomologist: From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek éntomon (insect) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -logía (from "lógos" - explanation)).

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly as asked. The etymologist to explain the etymology of entomologist.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Of course there's an xkcd for everything!