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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 62 points 2 weeks ago

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 37 points 2 weeks ago

Tanning salawns

[-] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 29 points 2 weeks ago

● Anal sex

Wait, that's not surprising

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

Im not suprised tbh

[-] witchybitchy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

can you elaborate on "sup"?

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 17 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

Also Tiffany which can be argued to originate from Theophania.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

Wow, didn't know that. That is interesting

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

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 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

[-] cephus@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Chef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bricklove@midwest.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

"The sound was always 'John'"

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks 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 weeks ago

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Half of them are from the Bibles.

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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Those are their translated names.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Good point!

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Meltdown@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Also Tiffany, Dennis, Squirrel, and Jerome

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Tiffany I recently found out is old, but Squirrel?? Who's named Squirrel?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Squirrel is.

[-] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lucelu2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] dihutenosa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

the gay son? Story checks out

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