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minus-squarewizzor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80·6 days agoFor people like me, who didn’t get it: Euripides: a greek philosopher who’se name sounds like the phrase " Did you rip these?" Eumenides: a tragedy by Aeschylus that sounds like the phrase " Will you mend these" I love it.
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·6 days agoIt helps if you give them a really cartoonish Italian accent. 🤌
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·6 days agoyeah, i just read them as “eury-pi-des” and “eury-many-dees” which really didn’t work at all
minus-squarefaintwhenfreelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoThanks, would’ve taken me a long time to figure it out without this.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoDid you try paying it better?
For people like me, who didn’t get it: Euripides: a greek philosopher who’se name sounds like the phrase " Did you rip these?" Eumenides: a tragedy by Aeschylus that sounds like the phrase " Will you mend these"
I love it.
It helps if you give them a really cartoonish Italian accent. 🤌
yeah, i just read them as “eury-pi-des” and “eury-many-dees” which really didn’t work at all
Thanks, would’ve taken me a long time to figure it out without this.
Sorry, didn’t work for me.
Did you try paying it better?