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packetmantis posted:You'd have to find a good post first.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This is a good post, I'm going to go back to this point in the conversation and see where it goes! 
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Five minutes ago I learned that a "labyrinth" and a "maze" are actually very different things, and also that the thing in Labyrinth was a maze. You can't even get lost in a labyrinth.
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rydiafan posted:Five minutes ago I learned that a "labyrinth" and a "maze" are actually very different things, and also that the thing in Labyrinth was a maze. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labyrinth quote:Definition of labyrinth 
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rydiafan posted:Five minutes ago I learned that a "labyrinth" and a "maze" are actually very different things, and also that the thing in Labyrinth was a maze. The original labyrinth was the maze built to keep the Minotaur trapped and the guy who built it was barely able to escape it.
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rydiafan posted:Five minutes ago I learned that a "labyrinth" and a "maze" are actually very different things, and also that the thing in Labyrinth was a maze. 
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He's talking about a classical labyrinth which is a single path from entrance to center:
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So a path.
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rydiafan posted:You can't even get lost in a labyrinth. If this is anything like videogame design: watch me
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:So a path. A very long and winding path.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:So a path. I really annoying one, yeah
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pik_d posted:I really annoying one, yeah Don't be so hard on yourself.
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It hit me today after dozens of readings that in the book Richard Scarry's Cars & Trucks From A to Z (Random House Chunky Shape Books, 1990) the line "look out for the lemon car" is not just a literal reference to an animal driving a lemon-shaped car, but is in fact a play on words.
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wizzardstaff posted:It hit me today after dozens of readings that in the book Richard Scarry's Cars & Trucks From A to Z (Random House Chunky Shape Books, 1990) the line "look out for the lemon car" is not just a literal reference to an animal driving a lemon-shaped car, but is in fact a play on words. Chunky Shape Books is also a great name for a children's book imprint.
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http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/labyrinths.htm
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Oh poo poo, this book is for children? Guess it's time to make another post in this thread.
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You have been misled. "Labyrinth" was repurposed in the mid-second millennium CE to refer to a winding single path. It has never not meant "maze", always meant "maze" in antiquity, and only sometimes means "winding single path" in modern English. Liddell, Scott, and Jones define λαβύρινθος as "labyrinth or maze, a large building consisting of numerous halls connected by intricate and tortuous passages", and that meaning persists to the current age. This is one of those words that shows up in those "did you know??" lists a lot, but medieval Europe did not invent the labyrinth and doesn't have the privilege of defining the word. Source: I have a degree in ancient Mediterranean languages and literature.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:You have been misled. "Labyrinth" was repurposed in the mid-second millennium CE to refer to a winding single path. It has never not meant "maze", always meant "maze" in antiquity, and only sometimes means "winding single path" in modern English. Liddell, Scott, and Jones define λαβύρινθος as "labyrinth or maze, a large building consisting of numerous halls connected by intricate and tortuous passages", and that meaning persists to the current age. This is one of those words that shows up in those "did you know??" lists a lot, but medieval Europe did not invent the labyrinth and doesn't have the privilege of defining the word. Maize, or as your people call it: corn.
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Minoans had fifty words for maze.
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Amiazing. Which is a word derived from the word Maize and not Maze!
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Mauser posted:Maize, or as your people call it: corn. One of Libya's major exports, if I'm not mistaken.
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christmas boots posted:One of Libya's major exports, if I'm not mistaken. Fun fact, they used libyarinths as grain storage
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When I was a kid I thought the lyrics "There's a bad moon on the rise" was "Theres the bathroom on the right". Thinking it was some werido song about inspecting a house. As for a recent thing, watched Space Jam last night for first time in over 20 years. Jordans dog is named Charles.
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Humphreys posted:When I was a kid I thought the lyrics "There's a bad moon on the rise" was "Theres the bathroom on the right". Thinking it was some werido song about inspecting a house. Yeah, but they seem to get along fine now that they're both retired.
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I’m from the U.S. and was very young at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We were never taught about the Iraq war in school, even in political or current events courses. I knew that the justification for the invasion was based on dubious evidence, but I was doing some reading recently and I was blown away. Government officials repeatedly insinuating that this was payback in some way for the 9/11 attacks, the war being marketed in such a way that almost 90% of Americans believed that he had WMDs, the incompetently forged documents purporting to be evidence that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake uranium and whose creators are still unknown! And images like this that the Secretary of State presented to the UN (it’s actually a hydrogen production facility):  I know this stuff is obvious to a lot of people who were paying attention at the time. It’s just sad and shocking to be learning about now.
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, but they seem to get along fine now that they're both retired. From what I gather about Jordan, [citation needed]
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When the Levee Breaks on Led Zeppelin IV is a cover version of song that was first recorded in the 1920s.
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One Swell Foop posted:When the Levee Breaks on Led Zeppelin IV is a cover version of song that was first recorded in the 1920s. You’ll be surprised to find out that most of their early repertoire is stolen from black musicians, then.
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wallaka posted:You’ll be surprised to find out that most of their early repertoire is stolen from black musicians, then. No, but that one specifically, yes. Hence the choice of thread.
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One Swell Foop posted:No, but that one specifically, yes. Hence the choice of thread. All London based musicians write blues songs about levees, it comes natural to them, like driving Chevys.
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British singers do not have accents when they sing. Why?
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The Mighty Moltres posted:British singers do not have accents when they sing. Some of them do.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:British singers do not have accents when they sing. There is no such thing as not having an accent
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Failed Imagineer posted:There is no such thing as not having an accent False. I do not have an accent but everyone else does.
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beanieson posted:False. I do not have an accent but everyone else does. False. You have an accent and you know it.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:British singers do not have accents when they sing. Some people sing in an American accent because they grew up listening to too much American music.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:False. You have an accent and you know it. Nope. Americans from my area don’t have accents.
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Captain Monkey posted:Nope. Americans from my area don’t have accents. See this guy gets it. You must also be from New Orleans, where we don’t have accents.
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The Midwest is the only accent free zone. Source: am from the Midwest and have no accent.
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Leavemywife posted:The Midwest is the only accent free zone. “Ohp, just gonna sneak right past ya and head to Meijers”
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