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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 60 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Also surprisingly from ancient Greece:

  • The greeting "'sup"
  • Guys wearing laurel wreaths backwards
  • Tanning salons... but they were just called lawns back then
[–] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago

Tanning salawns

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

● Anal sex

Wait, that's not surprising

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you know the Ancient Greeks invented anal sex? It only took 200 years before the Romans decided they should try it with women.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Im not suprised tbh

[–] witchybitchy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can you elaborate on "sup"?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 17 points 2 months ago

Lol, it's just a little joke based on the fact that Ancient Greek had both formal and informal greetings, and 'sup is our modern equivalent of an informal greeting. It's quite a stretch, I admit.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This first one seems su~~p~~s. "sup" has a well-known English etymology of "what's up?" After which I'm not sure of the etymology. The Ancient Greek for "hello" isn't remotely similar to the word, nor are any types of greetings I know of.

Do you happen to remember where you found this information?

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also Tiffany which can be argued to originate from Theophania.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tiffany is the epitome of this phenomenon, to the point that it's named the Tiffany Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Problem

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Wow, didn't know that. That is interesting

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a good read. I would have used my dagger to steal so much holy water. From the videos I watched there was nothing making sure a proper coin was used in the holy water vending machine.

The first known vending machine, created in the 1st century CE by Hero of Alexandria, dispensed holy water. This invention predates the modern concept of vending machines by nearly 2,000 years, making it seem anachronistic in ancient history.[5]

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing if you accept the water is actually holy, then you'd probably think twice about stealing it

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

If you steal the holy water and then drink a bunch of it don’t you get Holy powers or something though? Chug the whole thing down then take over the church. Once you have access to all the holy water for free it’s just a matter of time before you become a god yourself.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I guess I'm later for breakfast than I thought.

[–] cephus@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago
[–] bricklove@midwest.social 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This feels somewhat related: John, Johann, Ivan, Evan, Ian, Sean, Jean, Juan, João, Giovanni, Yannis, Yahya, Jack, Shane, etc are all based on the Hebrew name Yohanan

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

"The sound was always 'John'"

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

as someone not from the US, when I watched the show, I was very confused about that word, until I looked it up

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

i love how the jaguars being really good for a season perfectly lined up with what was happening in the show at the time

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Except for the name "Madison", which comes from the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Splash.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Fun fact: CGP Grey only makes videos on topics ending in "on."

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Its just a surname used as a first name, one of America's cuter, more demure methods of cultural appropriation.

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 months ago

And also the name "Cameron", which comes from 2012 series Total Drama: Revenge of the Island

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Half of them are from the Bibles.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's crazy to think that if you traveled back in time 2000 years ago you could hang out with guys named John, Luke and Mark.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Those are their translated names.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hence the term "Christian name", meaning one's first name.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Good point!

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not mine because it's an ethnonym, though I guess it's ancient source is Roman. Also the Roman version is still used as a nickname even though it makes my name longer.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Technically a vaultdweller in fallout could be considered a pseudo-ethnicity.

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think George comes from the Greek word for farmer "Georgos"

[–] lucelu2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[–] dihutenosa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was Yah-son, though, not Dgay-son. Probably.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

the gay son? Story checks out