@theo_nash I've read very little of that account and ones like it have been saying about Homer but most seems very clearly from a ChatGPT prompt of 'make a bad faith but clever sounding argument against ...'.
@toasterovensnod@Th_Angelopoulos@HomerPavlos Yeah, grey and bright seem to be what all the published translations use. It's probably not about a literal description but what it evokes when it's describing the eyes of a god.
@noahpasaran They've had to convince ChatGPT to make stupid arguments deliberately for this. Without prompting for that it praises it as one of the best and highly recommended.
@rizikaoikonomik@Th_Angelopoulos He was from Greece and spoke Greek natively. But the point was that Greeks today have to learn ancient Greek just as much as speakers of other languages.
@jhendersonYT The oral tradition part is how the story was originally composed and passed down, rather than it being a story that changed constantly. It's debated as to whether the same person wrote both poems.
@noemonas Not to mention examples of colours used to describe things where there's clearly no sensible way you can take it as a literal description of colour.
@Th_Angelopoulos This is bringing back memories of what I learnt very early when studying classics. But even before that I knew that translating words is often not fully possible because of multiple meanings that don't carry across.
@areyoflight I can't see why they seem to think offering a job to people to do this on a decent wage is worse than forcing people out of work to do it for free?
@AaronBastani I think the Kent result especially shows that tactical voting is really increasing and that people see the Greens as the best option if they don't like Reform.
@Mr_AlmondED The UK has one of the lowest rates for benefits in the developed world and the right are upset that a poor person or family might have a nice day out at London Zoo.