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Wugmeister to [email protected]English • 9 months ago

Just Classicist Problems

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Just Classicist Problems

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Wugmeister to [email protected]English • 9 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21066079

  • mathemachristian [he/him]
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    6•9 months ago

    Talmud

    androgynos

    Can you expand on this? That’s greek after all right?

    • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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      Probably a loan word at some point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgynos

      • mathemachristian [he/him]
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        4•9 months ago

        Huh the talmud is younger than I thought then

        • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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          Yeah the Torah is the older one.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•9 months ago

      Loan words are fun, your language either lacks a word for a concept or it’s very obscure so you just grab one from a neighboring culture. English has loads of them from French

      • mathemachristian [he/him]
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        1•9 months ago

        At this point english is to french as swiss is to german.

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