The Wilson effect explains “upper middle class former gifted kid” syndrome. The advantages of your environment gave way to a regression to your parents’ IQ

Who added “to do repentance” to the Wiktionary page for μετανοέω and gave NT examples? Not a single of the page’s sources (LSJ, Bailly, Strong’s) backs that up. I know apologists don’t want to admit Tyndale translated it right, but this is just pathetic. At least cite something!

Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Cameron, was the only member of the Peerage resident in America during the Revolution. Due to his friendship with Washington, no one bothered him—later, his feudal rule over the Northern Neck Proprietary (about the size of Wales) was revoked.

Lots of formerly men’s names are now used exclusively for women: Meredith, Evelyn, Ashley, Vivian, Carol, Aubrey, Lauren, Shannon, Allison, etc. But there are no former women’s names now used for men.

Way off. The aesthetics in Midsommar are from 18th/19th century Swedish peasants. For example, the paintings throughout the movie are based on kurbits, a style of peasant painting mainly used for Bible scenes on panels inside churches. Very Christianized, not pagan at all.

People on here say stuff like “yeah I’m a WASP” and then aren’t White, Anglo-Saxon, or Protestant. You are not on Nantucket dude you are an Italo-Fenian in a sweater vest

Griffins are underutilized in modern fantasy. To me, more interesting than dragons. Now guess where/when this griffin carving is from

I celebrate Leif Erickson Day instead of Columbus Day, not out of care for natives but strictly out of anti-Italian bias and my own petty ethnocentrism

When I was like 7 my grandpa would let me sit on his lap and drive his truck to the dump and it was the highlight of my week

I’ve perfected my algorithm to a level few of you could ever comprehend

You have to wonder if English has vowel shifts just to spite the Neogrammarian hypothesis

The isle of Hispaniola was split down the middle into Haiti and the Dominican Republic to prove forevermore that no functional country can speak French

Ethiopian art is by far the closest you can get to “what if a medieval monk saw a tank”. I love it so much

Homeric Greek and English have opposite spatial metaphors for time. We say the past is behind, the future is ahead. But πρόσθεν means in front of a person yet before an event, and ὄπισθεν means both behind and in the future. We walk forward into the future. They walked backward.

Meanwhile in Naples they paint their sandwich trucks with the Mezzogiornese culture hero Caccaroddo (’o Guaglione Gocco)

Postmodern doctor who thinks diagnoses are metanarratives for symptoms and can therefore be ignored

Due to the Anglo-Dutch rivalry, “Dutch” used to mean not just ‘foreign’ but “substitute, fake, cheap.” So “Dutch courage”: courage from alcohol, “Dutch treat”: meal where everyone pays for himself, “do the Dutch”: suicide. “Double Dutch” is from another sense, “incomprehensible”

People actually say things like “Englishness is an artificially constructed identity from the 19th century” and then not 5 minutes later go “yes I’m a pan-Celtic nationalist”

Rambo, the character, is named after a breed of apple. The Rambo apple, Johnny Appleseed’s favorite, was imported from Sweden by Peter Gunnarson Rambo, a settler in New Sweden. He came from Göteburg, from near Ramberget (“raven mountain”), hence the surname Rambo “raven-dweller”

“So there’s no vowel elision before words like εἴκοσι or ἄναξ?” “That’s right Joe. There’s a digamma there, beautiful letter, like a W, it stops that horrible elision, nasty business. Those awful Athenians, they can’t pronounce it, but Homer could, it affects the meter.”