Zagorath

Ok but a mod removing an admin's comments is absolutely bizarre. Do the admins have the power to reinstate them?

Two fun facts.

First, Bugs is also responsible for the word "Nimrod" meaning "moron". Nimrod is a great hunter in the bible, and Bugs was sarcastically calling Elmer Fud that name, but people didn't realise and just assumed it was a word that meant that.

It Happened One Night is one of just 3 films to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards: best picture, best screenplay, best director, best actor & actress. The other two are Silence of the Lambs and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

How is this obvious bullshit trolling allowed?

fwiw the word "commonwealth" is...essentially meaningless. If you hear someone say commonwealth on its own, they're probably talking about the Commonwealth of Nations as @scholar@lemmy.world described. The Commonwealth of Nations is basically a loose grouping of countries that do various things together. Probably the most noteworthy thing they do together is the Commonwealth Games, a sort of mini-Olympics.

But several other things also use the word. There's the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet states. There's Australia, a country whose full name (in the way the full name of America is the United States of America) is the Commonwealth of Australia (and in Australia, "the Commonwealth" is sometimes used synonymously with "the federal Government"). There are several states in America which are properly termed commonwealths, such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

he is separately the monarch of some (but not all) Commonwealth countries. Most Commonwealth countries are republics

Also fun fact, some members of the Commonwealth are monarchies, but with a different monarch than House Windsor. Like Malaysia.

You downvoting granda Tolkien?

Thanks for doing the research! Fun fact!

in 21st century colloquial speech, a linguist would have to admit that, descriptively, “widely applicable” and “allegorical” are nearly synonymous

Ha. You're the second person to have suggested that, so maybe there is something to it. But to be honest I'm not sure I agree. I don't think I'd ever use the term allegory without authorial intent. (But to save repeating myself, I'll just direct you to my reply to @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz.)

Or, at the very least, even if you are inclined to disregard authorial intent, there's still a subtle difference between allegory and applicability in that allegory requires an almost direct one-to-one relationship between the text and various elements of the real world, while applicability can be much more subtle or broad strokes. Basically, applicability is a broader term than allegory, a superset.

I'm not sure that I agree it has changed. To me, an allegory implies authorial intent. Some classic examples being Tolkien's friend Lewis whose Narnia novels were an allegory for Christianity, George Orwell's Animal Farm, an allegory for early Communist USSR, or The Crucible by Arthur Miller, an allegory for America's red scare.

If it isn't done with authorial intent, it's still absolutely possible to be a valid reading of the text that there are parallels, but IMO that's no longer an allegory.

Unfortunately, it turns out that while strange women lying in ponds giving away swords may not be the basis for a system of government, conceited women fucking racist pricks is, in fact, a perfectly legal way to decide your head of state.

I dunno if you're just memeing or if you genuinely don't know.

In case it's the latter…I posted a fairly famous quote from the author responsible for the text this community is based on.

Interesting. So can someone be "von" multiple places? Charles von Australia und United Kingdom und Canada und New Zealand zu United Kingdom?