old profile: /u/antonim@lemmy.world
Αδμιη, γου κηοω φρεεκ? Αωεςολλε!
Huh, so now I checked and realised that this isn’t Aeschylus’ Oresteia (and Aeschylus is the oldest preserved and stylistically most traditional of the survivng Greek tragedians, I’m sure he’d never use such brief lines in dialogues), instead it’s Euripides’ Orestes, and he’s definitely closer to this sort of style, relatively more modern.
Φρύξ οὐκ ἄρα κτενεῖς με;
Ὀρέστης ἀφεῖσαι.
Φρύξ καλὸν ἔπος λέγεις τόδε.
Ὀρέστης ἀλλὰ μεταβουλευσόμεσθα.
Φρύξ τοῦτο δ᾽ οὐ καλῶς λέγεις.
Translated by Edward Philip Coleridge:
Phrygian You will not kill me after all?
Orestes You are spared.
Phrygian How well you said that!
Orestes Now it’s time to change my plans.
Phrygian You didn’t say that well!
This translation is relatively accurate, from what I can tell. Certainly the punchy ‘fabulous’ is not reflective of the slightly longer statement in the original. The verb ἀφεῖσαι apparently can be translated as ‘go’, but a dictionary I consulted also provides ‘to release, absolve’ as one of the other meanings. But the overall effect of the exchange was clearly meant to be humorous, so the translation in OP does succeed in that regard…
That translation is so liberal Hexbear would brigade it.
They’re the same picture.
You have to follow my rules and satisfy my framing!
It’s not like you offered any other framing, though, except through negation of mine. You are trying to say that the “disagreements” weren’t just “disagreements”, but you’re insistent on not actually describing what they were, what actually happened, what was “my/our behaviour”, etc. Just repeated attacks on my description of the situation (mainly based on my disagreement with the claim that Hexbear users were “traumatised” by the federation) and not providing your own.
It’s funny how the guy that I initially replied to could clarify his view in a meaningful and hopefully informative way, while you’ve gone all out with semi-random insults.
what was already pointed out.
Almost nothing has been pointed out. You said my comment resembles those of “incel nazis”. No actual explanation or concrete criticism, just aggressive vocabulary and vague accusations. Of course, you can’t provide anything more than that - had i actually given even a hint of support for nazi ideology, you’d easily point it out, rather than just calling out… my wording?
bullshit you and every other incel nazi uses every time your behavior is called out
What is this “my/our behaviour” that you’re talking about exactly?
If you see anything that’s factually incorrect in my comment, please go ahead and point it out.
they had a genuinely traumatic experience
Jesus Christ, this is so ridiculous. They federated on their own accord, and from what I’ve seen very little non-hexbear users ever came to post on hexbear communitites. Seeing some new users in your online community who disagree with you isn’t fucking traumatic, in fact these people adore arguing and “dunking” on “libs”.
Wouldn’t it be fine to just let people post their small questions as their own threads? There’s not a ton of activity here (yet), and the questions would thus get more exposure while not really hindering the visibility of other threads.