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Uhura Appreciation Post (startrek.website)

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[-] Ensign_Seitler@startrek.website 103 points 1 year ago

“Fair” in the context of this phrase is meant to convey “beautiful” but literally meant “light or pale skinned.”

“Maiden” is meant to convey “young woman,” but literally meant “virgin” (as in “maiden voyage”).

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 year ago

literally meant “virgin” (as in “maiden voyage”)

I can't believe I never made this connection before.

[-] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I learned this wrt romeo and juliet, maidenhead is the hymen or virginity (maidenhood?)

For reference the line in Romeo and Juliet was

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.
Take it in what sense thou wilt.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

How did Bill get that past the censors?!

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's amazing how far a little royal patronage can get you.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

On horseback, mainly.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They'd never heard him tell a joke before.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's hilarious how Shakespeare's are seen in modern times considering what they were originally. They're full of dirty jokes and the accent they were originally performed in sounded nothing like the "modern" Received Pronunciation used today.

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Do you happen to know where to find whole plays done in the original pronunciation? I'm not exactly bad at finding things on the internet, but I can't find any of Shakespeare's plays in their original pronunciation, or more than a tiny bit of Chaucer's Canterbury tales in spoken middle English.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found this performance of As you like it on the wikipedia article. The quality of the video isn't great, but beyond that I can only find short excerpts in OP.

Here's the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. -- and here's a playlist by the same guy

A playlist of sonnets by polýMATHY

Sonnet 116

And short scene from Julius Caesar

Bonus, but unrelated: Here's The Lord's Prayer in old English