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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago (12 children)

That doesn’t even rhyme. Garbage.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In case you are not joking:

This was translated from Ancient Greek. Of course it won't rhyme; Ancient Greek poetry is based on foot and pitch, not rhymes. And even if it used rhymes the translation would butcher them.

Calling it garbage because it doesn't rhyme is like looking at a translation of Shakespeare into Japanese, and saying it's garbage because Shakespeare was a functional illiterate that couldn't count morae.

Regardless, the poem already shows a woman talking about romantic love around 600 BCE. It's already enough to tear apart what Anon is saying. Insert mentions of patriarchy here.


If you're joking: derp.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You might be right but you also come across as a pedantic snobby culture bro asshole. Shove up your Greek knowledge up your giant ass.. if you want to share knowledge do it kindly.. arrogance is not a good method to share knowledge you muppet.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

The guy he answered is showing a worse persona than your description throughout this whole thread and you haven't really shown any kindness yourself.

Also you being insecure and uncultured doesn't automatically make others around you pedantic and snobby.

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