@suchnerve When five young Americans volunteered to join the British Army in 1941 (way before the US joined the conflict) and were dubbed the 'Five Yanks' by the British Press, do you think it was meant maliciously? https://t.co/463mGFJUr0
@MattBrookes3@HackBlackburn@TimesDiary Ackshually he didn't say that. He said "A surrounded army must be given a way out. The ancient rule of the charioteers says, 'Surround them on three sides, leaving one side open, to show them a way to life.'" The 'golden bridge' quote is a later invention.
@suchnerve Essentially, we will endure quite a lot in the name of a good cause, so long as we perceive that everyone is doing their bit. Mutual participation in complaining sends a message of 'I'm not doing better than you, & if I were I'd have the good sense not to rub it in your face.'
@suchnerve We have a culture of NOT complaining (at least not out loud) about things like restaurant food, which Americans wouldn't think twice about. 'It's fine'. There's a great reluctance to be seen as causing a fuss.
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Yearly reminder that while the idea of a goddess called Ostara has been around since at least 1797 and was later independently postulated by Grimm, the pagan festival called Ostara that falls precisely on the Spring Equinox was invented by Aidan Kelly in the early 1970s.
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@major_crawley@suzania@LennyGoodnight Pascha was already being celebrated in the neighbouring British territories, which is why it's called Cáisc in Irish, Pasg in Welsh, Pace in Scots and Pask in Cornish. Augustine's lot brought Christianity to the pagan English newcomers, but the native Britons already had it.
@major_crawley@suzania@LennyGoodnight Per Bede, the feast of Eostre wasn't equinoctial. Bede specifically equates Eosturmonath with April. The equinox is in March.
Eostre's feast was likely marked by a full moon & was thus the opening of 6 months of summer, the exact calendrical opposite of Winterfilleth.
@Casketgirl88@WomackPhilip Old English: Goddess - Ēostre. Dawn - dægraed.
This is (partly) the rationale behind Professor Philip Shaw finding an alternative etymology that doesn't depend on PiE. See 'Eostre, Hretha and the Cult of Matrons'.
@Casketgirl88@WomackPhilip If Eostre was a reflex of the Indo-European dawn goddess, we'd expect the word for 'dawn' to be the same:
Latin: Goddess - Aurora. Dawn - Aurora.
Greek: Goddess - Eos. Dawn - Eos.
Lithuanian: Goddess - Aušrinė. Dawn - Aušra.
Vedic: Goddess - Ushas. Dawn - uṣá.