Patater Discourse

what we weren’t shown the night of the haus fire was bitty pushing the couch™️ into the fire

Wait, so… does -copter come *from* helicopter? 

Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be “-burger”: the original food item is named after the German city, [Hamburg]+[er], but got semantically reinterpreted as [ham]+[burger]. Now it’s used as a suffix indicating a type of sandwich.

I love etymology!!!!!

Not to say that Camilla Collins is this type of person, but at some point during her relationship with Jack, she had to have said to one of her friends, “Seriously, the boy is loaded and every date we have ever been on is at the dining hall during chicken tender night. He won’t even swipe me in.”

Holster: Jesus, Bitty, who’d you have to blow for seats like this? Bitty: … Ransom: … Shitty: … Holster: Sorry, I just forget sometimes. Um. Tell Jack thank you?

Poots: Hey, Jack? i need some dating advice. Jack: Just because i’m dating Eric Bittle, doesn’t mean i know how i did it.