I'm so boring

[zinagod]

Haven't updated in a while. Mostly because things have been kind of dull, yo

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[clockworkwings]

Both of those are true facts.

[orestria]

I know in Canada, we called some types of markers 'magic marker', so I could actually see where they get that from.

[orestria]

Well, my part of canada at least. It is a big country >>;

[zinagod]

yeah, we have magic markers in America, too. But that's a certain type of marker, and I've never heard them referred to as simply "magic".

[orestria]

Neither have I, but I was suggesting it as a reasonable origin for the term. My Korean kids think the English word for cheating is cunning. Which I'm fairly confident no Anglophone would ever say, but I can almost understand how they got there.

[tao_my_wei]

magic marker... kinda makes sense. like in germany they call their cell phones "handies" like a hand held phone ... i dunno it's like they took the less operative word (marker or phone) and made that the name of it.

so the explanation of the orange going through water like magic would've reallllllly made no sense!

[hollyannvix]

My family calls Sharpies, or those really thick black markers we use to address parcels, "magic markers" as well. I don't know why...but for as long as I can remember, they've always called them that :)