β² 658 βΌ What does that even mean? (lemmus.org) submitted 9 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world 165 comments fedilink hide all child comments Litterbox Comics
[β] n0respect@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 child) They love their shibboleths. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 child) thanks for teaching me a new word! that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT" good times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bricklove@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story: And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 child) thanks for teaching me a new word! that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT" good times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bricklove@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story: And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] bricklove@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story: And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. permalink fedilink source parent
