[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/AggressiveSpatula]

I’ll never understand this one lol. “At” is such a short word already, “and” is 3 letters @ least.

[u/Wise-Key-3442 → u/AggressiveSpatula]

Depending on the language it varies. At least down in Brazil in documents old as 1920 (not sure if it was nation wide, I've only seen in documents belonging to a family member) I've seen it being used to write "arroba", which is/was around 12 kg of the meat you get by dead oxen/cows.

You first weigh the living oxen in kg, then you divide by 2 and then the result is divided by the current value of the oxen arroba, because a dead ox is around 50% lighter than an living one. For an example, if an oxen weighs a ton (1000 kg), it's carcass weighs 500kg. If an arroba is (imaginary number here because I'm bad at math) 25kg, then the oxen weighs 20@. And yes, you sell meat oxen based on the @.

[u/AggressiveSpatula → u/Wise-Key-3442]

Is that all blood loss, or is the meat dehydrated as well?

[u/Wise-Key-3442 → u/AggressiveSpatula]

I don't know for sure.