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Did ancient Greeks wear pants? Maybe he ripped them off a barbarian? Euripides actually mentions pants and mocks them.

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lemmy.world

From what I understand, the Eu is pronounced like Ef.

I used to work with a guy named Eutychios. He went by George.

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With an accent it would be: u rip dis? (Did you rip this?) then the reply would be: u mend dis? (Do you mend this?)

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feddit.org

Thanks I really didnt knew how to pronounce this stroks of letters inside my head 😅

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In ancient Greek, the ending -es is pronounced eez, eg Heracles is hair-ah-cleez. So, ironically, it comes out like they have Italian accents. "You rip-a deez?" and "you men'-a deez?"

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pawb.social

Some Car Talk staff members over here.

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When I'm making examples for forms, I use their staff credit names. Marge Innovera gets used pretty frequently.

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I heard Woody Allen do this in the 60's. Nice revival of a good line.

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2 seconds of funny text vs 1 minute of loud high pitched hard to understand talking over a canned laugh track. Agree to disagree :)

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lemmy.world

Downvote for being too lazy to type those few words in.

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Treczoksreply
lemmy.world

Yep. They happily send two, three, or five thousand bytes images instead of maybe 50 bytes of text. The worst have that image in the centermost 20%, and black emptyness at the top and bottom from the screenshot they took instead of just copying the text.

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Looks at your account

Huh, imagine that, you've never posted any content, yet you whine about others contributing. Be the change you want to see perhaps?

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