Memes

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wed(Mercury)nesday

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[–] Moc@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Thor’s Day

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[–] deetz@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Sun day, Moon Day, Tiw's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Friga's Day, Saturn's Day

In French and other languages these line up pretty with with the planets instead of the old English gods.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I thought it was Odin Thor Freya Saturn Sun Moon and then some really cool dude named Tiw

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[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago*

It's both. In English, it uses Germanic gods for all but Saturday. French uses the Roman names (Latin etymology instead of Germanic). Sunday and Monday exist in both (with different names for Sun and Moon), and Saturday in Germanic languages is usually not related to a deity (it varies by region though). In English we get a nice mix of gods because we have both Germanic and Latin roots.

Also, to convert Proto-Germanic to Old West Norse, Woden = Odin, Tor = Thor, Friga = Frigg/Freyja (the names got mixed up in etymology, they might be the same goddess), and Tiw/Tiwar = Tyr.

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[–] deetz@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Its actually Woden's Day for the old English god of Mercury but then in French it's just Mercredi

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[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

Yup. Also spelled Wotan (t and d are kind of ambiguous in younger futhark), and probably known better to a modern audience as Odin.

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[–] Moc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Thor’s Day

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[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Mo(o)nday

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[–] Guildo@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

is this lolnein?

[+] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works -10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Remember getting the newspaper and flipping straight to the memes page? Or going to the meme book store? Or getting up early to watch the Saturday memes on TV?

It sounds stupid because comics and cartoons aren't memes.

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

A comic or a cartoon could express a meme, just like anything else. Not in this case, though.

Most people just see "meme" as "a funny picture with text on it", so a comic fits right in there. Technically speaking, most things posted as memes aren't memes, but people are too lazy to separate these things out. And really, why should they?

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml [S] 20 points 2 years ago

Imaging being a person that gatekeeps memes of all things anyway.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Imagine giving a remote fuck about this and getting all worked up enough to comment on it

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Imagine not giving a fuck about filling out other communities that need more content in favor of having a garbage dump for everything.

I apologize for wanting to see the Fediverse grow into a fully fleshed out group of instances with active communities.

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I dunno you seem to be contributing plenty of trash to the garbage dump yourself

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago

Hurr hurr look how clever we are...

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Memes are stored in the balls

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing has changed. We have kept the tradition constant.