Crows

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Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.

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[–] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I didn't get this one at first because I wasn't aware of the work Murder on the Orient Express.

[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://vocabularypoint.com/collective-nouns-for-crows/

I'm speechless.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals...

[–] oeil@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome.