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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I didn't know the word cryptid and looked to the root word "crypt", then at the picture of Trump for context clues. I deduced it must mean something like someone half-dead, foot-in-the grave, etc.

But I mused that the root could be cryptic, too 🤔

So I looked it up:

Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.

Thanks for a new word! Also, Sasquatch exists!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also cryptozoology: the study of cryptids (pseudo of course).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Also: Disco Elysium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hah you could just have Google cryptids to start ;) But looks like you found your way! Yes, basically modern day mythological creatures

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Everything is cryptic when you're high

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Crypt is etymologically where dead bodies are hidden when it comes to how we got it from Greek. Necroid or thanatoid would be nice English descriptions of him too though.