Microblog Memes

Reminds me of a story an old friend of mine loved to tell.

In her undergrad, she majored in classics and archaeology. One summer she was working at a dig on the island of Cyprus. One day she needed to go into town for some supplies. She walks into the store, and suddenly she realizes. "Fuck. I don't speak a word of modern Greek. How am I going to talk to the shopkeeper in this tiny town in rural Cyprus?"

She decides to just do the best she can, and she tries to talk to him in the only Greek she knows...Ancient Greek.

The shopkeeper gets befuddled, then looks her dead in the eye and says, in English, "lady, no one has talked like that here in 2000 years!"

Shawn is a moron.

Cool seeing her agreeing with what the otaku community has been complaining for years already, when is she getting cancelled? You can't criticize translators anymore.

Does anyone have a link to her actual findings? I tend to be skeptical of headlines like this.

Also, the first woman?

Ah the agenda of checks notes not adding sexist remarks not included in the original text. What an awful agenda that is.

When you're used to seeing the word classist it takes a second to remember a classicist isn't someone who is prejudiced against ancient Greeks and Romans.

Obviously a classicist is someone who studies how the working class can overthrow their divinely mandated white men overlords.

Right? No other possible thing it could mean.

Nothing else. Nothing at all.

First of all..."Sexist and misogynist" redundant...sort of...because women can be sexist too. Misandry is what that's called.

And a lot of stuff that's called "misogynist" today isn't actually misogynist. Some misandrists out there think any scene in a movie or book depicting a brothel with any kinds of events that follow afterward or before to be misogynistic

The same goes for any scene where a man rescues a woman from anything. I'm not kidding. some women out there literally think that old as dirt trope that's been in every story ever written is somehow sexist.

I judge people only by the content of their character and then by their qualifications