The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoBasically twins?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up193arrow-down1imageBasically twins?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoSo similar it was guaranteed they’d fight wars so numerous they started being named just by duration. Kind of like Greeks and Trojans, or Judeans and Samaritans.
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoImagine being in the Thirty Years Wars and you realize it’s year 29 so the end is near
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoImagine it’s year 9 of the Nine Years War and then they’re like “just joking, it’s the second Hundred Years War”.
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoNo, they are very good at giving accurate names beforehand like the War to almost End War
minus-squareKyrgizion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoOr the Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
So similar it was guaranteed they’d fight wars so numerous they started being named just by duration.
Kind of like Greeks and Trojans, or Judeans and Samaritans.
Imagine being in the Thirty Years Wars and you realize it’s year 29 so the end is near
Imagine it’s year 9 of the Nine Years War and then they’re like “just joking, it’s the second Hundred Years War”.
No, they are very good at giving accurate names beforehand like the War to almost End War
Or the Scots and other Scots.
Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!