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monkeytypist:

Tragedy originally meant “goat-song”.

You’ve got to be kidding!

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  1. monkeytypist reblogged this from lovelylinguist and added:
    I can’t help it that you backward types live so far west of the IDL! :)
  2. enormousair reblogged this from superfluidity and added:
    Yes! Thanks, superflu. (I can’t emphasize enough how much I love the fact that we have a resident classicist here.)...
  3. superfluidity reblogged this from enormousair and added:
    I think it’s pretty clear that the Greek word tragoidia comes from elements meaning “goat” and “song” but there is...
  4. enormousair reblogged this from tragos and added:
    My two things: 1. tragos is a goat. 2. I’ve heard this etymology contested before. What does superfluidity have to say...
  5. jonathan-deamer reblogged this from tristn and added:
    You’d better baa-lieve it.
  6. loscheiner reblogged this from tristn and added:
    Related: the little cartilaginous nub in front of your ear canal (the part that keeps your earbuds in place) is called...
  7. tragos reblogged this from tristn and added:
    Just two things to say about that: 1. I am a goat. 2. ‘oide’ means song, or ode.
  8. tristn reblogged this from monkeytypist and added:
    You’ve got to be kidding!
  9. lovelylinguist reblogged this from monkeytypist and added:
    I like all of this except that it’s Wednesday, not Thursday. Whatever.
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