07-17-2020, 10:42 PM
(07-17-2020, 10:27 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I was watching John B. Wells' show earlier. He somehow got on the topic of Uranus and went off teaching everyone how to pronounce it too. He said people in the U.S. are the only ones who mispronounce it.
Now, here I see it again.
Weird.
ETA: @"guohua" , where do you find all those crazy memes you post? I really want to visit that place!
Well, that particular professor was an American, too - from Wisconsin, got his Phd at Yale. At the same university, I also studied Ancient Greek, because there was a language requirement. I think, because of that particular course of study, that it originally was neither "Ur-A-nus" nor "URINE-ous" - I believe the original pronunciation was more like "Oo-RAHN-ose".
But that's just me, and my pronunciation likely wouldn't cause as many giggles in a crowded lecture hall, and so is not as entertaining.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’