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fuck you *turns you into a sphere*
Huh.
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Just one of those days, I guess.
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ap tests were so fucking hard man none of the “what are vowels” NO the questions were “how did the active v2 deletion and β-dissimilation relate over the span of the evolution process between ancient and byzantine greek”
Why is everything so damn vulgar these days? Must be that fucking internet. 😛
Gift horse idiom anon here - I'm just now realizing nobody ever *told* me it was the Trojan horse being referred to, my Greek mythology obsessed-ass just assumed lmao. But also it feels a bit like that 'would you be more surprised to see a walrus or a fairy at your door' post in that in this day and age I low-key would be just as surprised to be gifted a real life actual horse as I would a mythological gift horse made of wood with men inside lol so my brain just never even considered a real horse as even being a possible option 😂
All that to say, thank you! I have learned a thing! (I love learning things)
You are extremely far from alone in making this assumption, I cannot tell you how many conversations I've had about how probably you SHOULD look in the horse's mouth in case there are Greek soldiers in there. People either take it to refer to the Trojan horse or joke about it not working if the horse is being gifted by Greeks all the time. The mythology surrounding the Trojan war has had an effect on Western culture rivalled only by the Bible!! Statistically you can assume something is a reference to Greek mythology and be right, like, most of the time (I went to a hardware store today and they had a fire pit called Acheron ffs, shoutout to the Greek mythology girlie who names things at the fire pit factory)
I too love a fun fact but had also not considered what a windfall might actually be until I read Sally Coulthard's fascinating book, The Apple, from which I learned a lot about apples!! Highly rec all her books actually, A Short History of the World According to Sheep genuinely changed my life.
Ok I have a question and as both a words person and a classics person you seem as good as anybody to ask. The idiom "don't look a gift horse in the mouth", I get that it means don't question good things, just accept them. But that makes no sense to me in context of the Trojan horse. If you're given a supposed gift that actually has a bunch of soldiers waiting to kill you inside of it, wouldn't you *want* to look closer so you can find out right away instead of being surprised???? I feel like by not looking the gift horse in the mouth, you're just asking to be killed by Odysseus's men later when you're sleeping. Am I just being too autistic about this and taking it too literally lol? Usually I don't have trouble with idioms but this one has always bugged me
There is a very simple answer to this and it's that the gift horse idiom has nothing to do with the Trojan horse! However it is unfortunately close to the idiom that does: beware Greeks bearing gifts*, with which it is often conflated/confused/paired despite being unrelated.
The gift horse whose mouth we are not to look in is a (hypothetical) flesh-and-blood horse. We're meant to leave the inside of its mouth a mystery because one of the things you look at when buying a horse is how good its teeth are. The thing being advised against is really to avoid treating the giving and receiving of gifts as transactional (but it has taken on the sense of not worrying about the details of a windfall** and accepting it as it is) (and been further watered down to simply mean one shouldn't complain about unavoidable circumstances, which are the metaphorical 'gift' in this [ironic] usage).
*(my personal experience with Greeks is that their gifts are usually of delicious food so I ignore this one)
**(bonus: a 'windfall' is an apple that's fallen out of a tree due to the wind, which means you don't have to climb a tree to get it.)
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Just for funzies! ♥♥♥
With current events and all, I want to make it clear that I do believe people can be both an antisemitic ass and a Zionist at the same time. I've met some in real life. This sort of idiot would have preferred that when Israel was formed every Jew on the planet should have been forcibly shipped over there so that they never have to see them in their community. This is not an either/or situation. Even a Jew can hold that shitty belief, either via self-hate or some racist "people shouldn't live in mixed communities" sort of nonsense. Many flavors of asshole exist and some people like to make themselves into shit cocktails.
