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Assene 4 month s ago
#2 "Spartans were so rich that nobody had to work." That's really not accurate. They had the Helots - a slave society - that worked for them to do "menial" labor. The Spartans worked very hard at soldiering. They by no means lived in opulence of any kind.
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Sis 4 month s ago
Assene,
Helots weren't Spartans. By you own admission they had other people do the work for them thus they didn't have to work
Helots weren't Spartans. By you own admission they had other people do the work for them thus they didn't have to work
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Assene 4 month s ago
Sis, Read the comment again, Thucydides.
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Mert 4 month s ago
#8 - in medieval england, the word “ask” was pronounced, “axe”
we call b.s. with a facepalm
we call b.s. with a facepalm
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Chesley 4 month s ago
Mert,
The celebrated Middle English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, who penned The Canterbury Tales and is often called the father of English literature, used the word this way; so did the Coverdale Bible, which was the first-ever English incarnation of the Bible. When this was published in 1535, the Bible instructed the pious to axe and it shall be given you. The president of the American Dialect Society says that ax is not a new thing; it is not a mistake. It is a feature of regular English.
The celebrated Middle English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, who penned The Canterbury Tales and is often called the father of English literature, used the word this way; so did the Coverdale Bible, which was the first-ever English incarnation of the Bible. When this was published in 1535, the Bible instructed the pious to axe and it shall be given you. The president of the American Dialect Society says that ax is not a new thing; it is not a mistake. It is a feature of regular English.
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Theodore 4 month s ago
Chesley,
I worked with a woman many years ago who pronounced cusp as cups. Axe is a mistake. It’s just a coincidence that people said axe hundreds of years ago.
I worked with a woman many years ago who pronounced cusp as cups. Axe is a mistake. It’s just a coincidence that people said axe hundreds of years ago.
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Steph 4 month s ago
#13 I believe his eyes became bright green. The other firefighters noticed it right after he growled, "Don't...make...me...angry...You wouldn't like me...if I were angry." All they found in what followed was shredded clothing, but no pants.
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Assene 4 month s ago
Steph, I don't know why you got a downvote. That was fairly clever.
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Shelly 4 month s ago
Assene,
It's because it was "clever." There are the omnipresent trolls here to downvote clever comments, as they hate being reminded of how dim-witted they are.
It's because it was "clever." There are the omnipresent trolls here to downvote clever comments, as they hate being reminded of how dim-witted they are.
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Armanda 4 month s ago
#1 this was the case because the men didn't do anything but fighting and someone had to take care of the economy.
#2 this is bs. Most of the people in Sparta where slaves who did, in fact, work. The only ones who 'didn't work' where the soldiers. Spartans also thought luxury would weaken them, so wealth in this sense wasn't even allowed.
#2 this is bs. Most of the people in Sparta where slaves who did, in fact, work. The only ones who 'didn't work' where the soldiers. Spartans also thought luxury would weaken them, so wealth in this sense wasn't even allowed.
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Shay 4 month s ago
#8 So, America's black population was descended from medieval Englishmen??
Helots weren't Spartans. By you own admission they had other people do the work for them thus they didn't have to work
we call b.s. with a facepalm
The celebrated Middle English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, who penned The Canterbury Tales and is often called the father of English literature, used the word this way; so did the Coverdale Bible, which was the first-ever English incarnation of the Bible. When this was published in 1535, the Bible instructed the pious to axe and it shall be given you. The president of the American Dialect Society says that ax is not a new thing; it is not a mistake. It is a feature of regular English.
I worked with a woman many years ago who pronounced cusp as cups. Axe is a mistake. It’s just a coincidence that people said axe hundreds of years ago.
It's because it was "clever." There are the omnipresent trolls here to downvote clever comments, as they hate being reminded of how dim-witted they are.
#2 this is bs. Most of the people in Sparta where slaves who did, in fact, work. The only ones who 'didn't work' where the soldiers. Spartans also thought luxury would weaken them, so wealth in this sense wasn't even allowed.