The More You Don't Know

[00:05] Oh, we doing under Google rules that was the playa super excited told us we had to
[00:17] so we said we signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true
[00:25] than Google can give you I got one that's been sticking to my craw for a
[00:31] while we know the answer to that did we do did we do why floors or stories I
[00:38] don't think so we talked about it but I don't think we actually answered that one
[00:44] I remember there was one that you guys that I threw things out and then you guys
[00:48] did one but I left because I was too tired but all right so this comes at one
[00:54] point was having a conversation with with somebody we're probably house hunting at
[00:59] the time or something like that and said oh yeah we looked at this house it
[01:02] was a three-story whatever and immediately was like why in the world did
[01:09] we call them stories like this building is 13 stories tall so my I never thought
[01:20] about this my initial reaction is that it is completely separate from the way
[01:27] that we understand stories right that's that's got sure it's got a root in
[01:32] something Latin or I don't know that's my initial thought okay but I don't know
[01:41] yeah I have no idea I've been pondering this and I can't even come up with like a
[01:48] hypothesis it feels like it's just gonna be some super random thing right yeah and
[01:59] yeah unless it's like something you know stonemason re related well what about you
[02:10] know you think about like a storefront you know like okay this is it's
[02:16] somewhere along the line like the idea that this was four stores high you know
[02:24] okay we just stacked stores on top of each other because they used to only be
[02:27] one store went with one floor I suppose okay I like this a lot and that's and I
[02:35] don't know yeah that's all I got and and somebody was just joking around and
[02:44] called it instead of four stores I have four stories for this yeah I mean that's
[02:49] where this where it falls apart Jason thanks for pointing that out well the
[02:52] story ends with an E so perhaps story was the the way you used to pronounce
[02:57] that a four stores high yeah it's a four story it's four story story ish yeah yeah
[03:11] exactly and wait how long do you think people have been referring to floors as
[03:21] stories well okay I don't think we were talking about levels of a castle I think
[03:30] you just had a castle right so like I think I think this has to be when do we
[03:37] start getting multiple level not even domus house but like this is businesses
[03:46] or apartment buildings I would imagine that the first would be you know a
[03:52] shopkeeper builds their house above their storefront okay so that's their
[03:58] second store e yeah or with that's where yes store their goods that could be store
[04:06] yeah store stores and store goods yeah that might track so what would air would
[04:12] that be I mean you know I feel like everything was one story for a long time
[04:19] yeah cuz why would you build up until you had like dense like I remember seeing
[04:24] pictures of London Bridge like in the Middle Ages and I feel like it was two
[04:32] stories there but you what you wouldn't start building up there's no reason to
[04:38] build up so you were in a room you run out of room right I mean it creates all
[04:45] types of architectural problems right it does well I guess the Greeks and the
[04:50] Romans had like can do it for sure that did they have a lot of two-story spots
[04:56] well they did it for like big buildings right like civic centers and there's a
[05:03] there's that the Agora is two levels like in yeah in Athens for sure okay
[05:12] Coliseum's freakin gigantic well then what's the churches are huge with
[05:18] multi-levels there's not a lot of but again I don't think you referred to those
[05:24] stories you know I feel like they have like second stories in a lot of churches
[05:29] back in the day I don't know well like I'm yeah I at least yeah yeah yeah you
[05:36] have balconies balconies and bell towers and I mean there's plenty of
[05:42] technology they were trying to reach the right yeah the purpose here is that
[05:45] there's plenty of yeah there's plenty of ability to put second stories on
[05:49] stuff okay right right whether or not they were doing it you know probably has
[05:54] more to do you know how much land people had but you know if you owned well
[06:00] like he's landed you wanted more space on it I mean you build up that's a good
[06:03] part sure it's in the churches thing they were definitely their whole thing
[06:06] was trying to reach the heavens right scrape the sky sort of stuff it wasn't
[06:11] like well maybe maybe if you're a farmer you would rather build up well
[06:16] you've got a second story where you leave your hay you know and your barn
[06:20] right yeah but you also you might more readily build down I mean it may be
[06:25] easier to dig then depends on where you are I guess yeah and also it's you know
[06:32] cooler down there it has some storage benefits sure but it's a real seller to
[06:38] the water table yeah yeah this come from like Amish then at some you know they
[06:45] like to raise barns and houses and whatnot yeah they do maybe you spin a
[06:51] spin a yarn yeah tell a story I mean maybe architects you know see this is a you
[06:58] know visual art medium maybe they're telling stories and you know every floor
[07:03] is a story every floor is a story I mean every everyone comes on this up
[07:07] like on page right when you do your do your drawings yeah that's true so I'm
[07:14] gonna I'm gonna say okay I like this idea I think that the the Latin for store
[07:21] and for story have the same route and we just have to connect the dots somewhere
[07:29] and then we get stories like I mean a story in a book and then like a
[07:34] storefront and then somehow we get to the answer I feel like the masons are
[07:46] involved somehow and I don't know the masons are always involved I mean we may
[07:51] not be able to prove it but that's the thing you can't find that on the
[07:54] internet though sure that's truly on Google what what's your what's your best
[08:02] guess Harper so I'm gonna go I'm gonna go yeah I'm gonna go like 1600s to go go
[08:19] England and I'm gonna say yeah it has something to do with yes storefronts yeah
[08:30] I do like that one as well yeah if we thought about the connection to Estonia
[08:44] I have not the story yeah I don't know if I trust the site at all but according
[08:59] to the leading Britain's conversation dot co.uk it says it back in the era of
[09:10] kings and queens the floors of a castle were used for storage during sieges each
[09:16] floor would be used to store various different items including weapons and
[09:21] food the floors were referred to as stories here spelled s-t-o-r-e-y-s let's
[09:38] go to the straight dope bard thinks that in the Middle Ages many buildings
[09:45] featured painted windows or walls that depicted scenes from stories hmm
[09:49] painted narratives were often referred to as stories the term story eventually
[09:54] came to be applied to the levels of the building itself another theory
[10:08] etymology speculate that story came from some lost word starey perhaps related to
[10:15] the Gaelic stayed here for a flight of stairs or possibly from something along
[10:21] the lines of stage read right from stage others dismiss these as being obviously
[10:33] born of desperation and for a time the experts settle on the old French estory
[10:37] a thing built let's see see that's what I'm getting to that it's a thing built
[10:48] from the old doubts arose when researchers dug up such phrases as una
[10:53] historia octofen finastarum a story of eight windows from medieval Latin
[11:02] history books Historia meant history or story and by the Middle Ages had
[11:09] acquired the meaning of picture so the charming notion arose that medieval folk
[11:14] were in the habit of installing rows of windows in their buildings called
[11:17] stories that were decorated with paintings or sculpture so this is your
[11:21] thing Harper theories that these stories for which any all anybody knows
[11:29] may actually have told the story eventually came to signify a level of
[11:32] building apparently as evidence of this practice the authors of the Morris
[11:37] dictionary of words and phrase origins site the fact that they once visited a
[11:41] Swiss style hotel decorated along these lines in Lake Placid New York what that
[11:49] all sounds like a lot yeah this yeah what I've got is French old French a store
[11:57] means to erect construct or build and that each level on top would be a store
[12:06] we also get that from we also get restore from that because it's to make
[12:13] firm essentially is the what side are you on with that I am on etymology
[12:21] Adam Adam online etymology so that I'm online calm that's good I just it's
[12:31] interesting that if it were that clear they're the only ones with that dope
[12:35] see live journal has something on seems like it yeah it's a so stores are not
[12:52] only places in which goods or merchandisers are sold but places of
[12:57] dispos a deposit as in storehouse common parlance of the two words have
[13:05] distinct meanings we speak of shops as places in which merchants pursue their
[13:11] trades as a carpenter shop a blacksmith shop or a shoemaker shop while if we
[13:17] refer to a place where goods and merchandise are bought and sold whereas
[13:21] my wholesale or retail we speak of it as a store it's basically talking about the
[13:31] different types of stores I guess looks like 1630s for store bought yeah this is
[13:41] a lot looks like 1300s 1300s old French is what I'm getting for erecting a story
[13:48] on top of something else so it's either that or the picture thing yeah picture
[13:55] thing seems fairly picture thing not crippled to me but whatever I mean yeah
[14:01] I mean they they both do but there's actually it seems like there's more
[14:04] references from that on that one then the French thing even though that seems
[14:09] more straightforward right well there you go the more you know or don't know