Timeline for Meaning of "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" in The Princess Bride?
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| Oct 9, 2023 at 20:58 | comment | added | Mark Dominus | We might also imagine that in Morgenstern wrote something quite different in the original Florinese, and that Goldman whimsically replaced it with something that a 20th-century American would recognize. Translators do this sort of thing all the time. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 18:45 | history | edited | Juhasz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2021 at 18:45 | comment | added | Juhasz | @Acccumulation, this does not seem worth arguing about. I'll remove that point. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 18:32 | comment | added | Acccumulation | A term for large statues is not the same as originating from a particular. And every word comes from something. Does the fact that they're speaking English show that they're on Earth? | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 16:29 | comment | added | Juhasz | @Acccumulation, I believe you've got it backwards: etymonline.com/word/colossus. In the 18th century, English writers began using the Latin word colossus as a metaphor for anything as gigantic as the Colossus of Rhodes. The Latin word was taken form the Greek kolossos, which described gigantic statues, like the one at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 3:51 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "Colossus" is a general term for someone or something that is very big. The name "Colossus of Rhodes" comes from this term. | |
| Sep 30, 2021 at 18:04 | history | answered | Juhasz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |