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negativenull@piefed.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 days ago

Not sure about the Ostrogoths

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Not sure about the Ostrogoths

negativenull@piefed.world to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 days ago
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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    “Visigoth” is funnier if you’re Hungarian, then it means “water goth”.

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    • negativenull@piefed.worldOP
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      In a galaxy kinda far away

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      what about the westrogoths

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        The “Visi” in “Visigoths” is already meant to identify them as the western Gothic people, in contrast with the eastern “Ostrogoths” (it doesn’t mean “western” but it was meant to be used like that by Cassiodorus, who invented the term).

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          Between Wiktionary and Etymonline, the suggestion is the word stems from Latin Vesi as a Latinized form of their tribe name, itself coming from PGmc *wesuz “great, excellent”.

          I really hope this is right, because a nation of goths who call themselves “the Good Guys” is hilarious to me.

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          i gathered that it wasn’t cassiodorus who started using the term that way but a later writer. he invented the term but just called the ostrogoths “goths”

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        how about the osteogoths

        In our world, bones equal dollars
        That’s why they’re coming out tonight
        To get their bones from you

        • lime!@feddit.nu
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          that’s just modern goths

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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            dude stop making me hungry for boot. i just had lunch.

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    Invisigoth sounds like one of the X-Men

    • Bristlecone@lemmy.world
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      An episode of the x-files had an “invisigoth”. Just watched that episode coincidentally

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    Ostrogoths had their heads in the sand.

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    This deserves to be crossposted to dadjokes 💪

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      Especially with the circan’t be sure. A lovely dad joke indeed

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    Ostrogoths about to enter from the panel on the right

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    You can always tell a Milford man.

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      Mother!

  • Gandalf the Gorsed@feddit.org
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    Also know as Vidontsigoths

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    There was an opportunity missed here to have the armored men with black eye liner and Docs to double up.

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