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" 'Waterloo' means a complete and utter defeat. The French Emperor Napoleon lost everything at the Battle of Waterloo."
"Why did he go there, if the town had such an unlucky name?"
Philomena cunk core
At least he went straight there, unlike that other French guy always taking a roundabout way of getting somewhere. You know, Monsieur Detour.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
I have to admit that that's an expression I've only heard in US circles. As an expression in England, it, well, has no meaning. We kicked some guy's arse and lost our best general.
Funnily I don't think I've heard Waterloo used that often, in French.
Berezina is more commonly heard as a "complete and utter fuck up of epic proportions". It's the most memorable defeat in the entire retreat from Russia, which itself was a complete disaster.
Waterloo was more of a swansong, since Napoléon had just come back to power after having abdicated, and he was hoping to prove he still had it. He did not.
"Shouldn't we honor the gods before we go back home?" "Nah, trust me bro, I'll be fine"
Odyssey roughly translates to "The story of Odysseus", so yes, the name existed before Homer's story. The semantic connection of odyssey and a long, dangerous and arduous journey came way after that.
You could say it was an odyssey for odyssey to get that meaning
Odyssey no longer feels like a word. Damn you, semantic saturation!
Wow, I really hate to be this pedantic, but it's semantic satiation. I only remember because I had a similar experience thinking it was "saturation" because it just makes more sense, but apparently we're wrong.
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So it's more like "This is Bob and his autoBobography"
Does that mean a story about Homer would be a Homey?
The Odyssey was called Odysseia. The suffix -eia is an abstract noun suffix, so it's sort of like a titular case for the name. Following the same logic, it would be Homereia and thus Homerey.
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Odysseus was a minor character in the first book before he became the main protagonist of the sequel. So yes, Odysseus was there before the Odyssey.
Ackshually, The Odyssey is said to have been written before The Iliad, making the latter the prequel of the former.
But since the name Odysseus was in use throughout Greece before the birth of Homer then yes indeed, Odysseus was there before The Odyssey.
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So basically like Frasier
Exactly, those old episodes with Dr Crane working at Arkham Asylum really hit different once you know about his dark past
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The Frasiery. Nice.
I’m sorry, it’s just hard to relive this… without Jarnathan here.
"We were going to approve your release"
Love that movie. Just a simple, fun adventure.
One of my favourite movies of recent years.
After seeing it, I've been unable to see Chris Pine as anything other than Edgin. Star Trek? Wonder Woman? Still Edgin, just acting weird.
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According to Behind the Name Odysseus means "to hate." According to Etymonline an odessey came to mean a journey in 1889, presumably as a reference to Homer's story.
Modern thinking says an alternate etymology is more likely, but it certainly existed long before it took on the meaning from the story.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%88%CE%B4%CF%85%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%82#Ancient_Greek
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It’s Odysseyn’ time!
And then he Odyssed all over the place (for 10 years)
The movie adaptation made an oddyseon dollars, it's more than the morbillion dollars Morbius made!
I'm gonna write a new book call Travelling Adventurer, and my protagonist is gonna called Traveour Venture.
Trevelor A. Deventure
But his middle name is also Adventure.
Even reading his name's a journey.
You jest but the main character of Snow Crash is literally called Hiro Protagonist
With sidekick Yours Truly.
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John Odyssey from the hit series Odyssey
Inventor of the Odyssey, just like Sir Thomas Ladder
It means Son of Oddie. His dad was Bill Oddie.
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