• deetz@kbin.social
          231·
          10 months ago

          Sun day, Moon Day, Tiw’s Day, Woden’s Day, Thor’s Day, Friga’s Day, Saturn’s Day

          In French and other languages these line up pretty with with the planets instead of the old English gods.

            • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
              3·
              10 months ago

              It’s both. In English, it uses Germanic gods for all but Saturday. French uses the Roman names (Latin etymology instead of Germanic). Sunday and Monday exist in both (with different names for Sun and Moon), and Saturday in Germanic languages is usually not related to a deity (it varies by region though). In English we get a nice mix of gods because we have both Germanic and Latin roots.

              Also, to convert Proto-Germanic to Old West Norse, Woden = Odin, Tor = Thor, Friga = Frigg/Freyja (the names got mixed up in etymology, they might be the same goddess), and Tiw/Tiwar = Tyr.

      • deetz@kbin.social
        13·
        10 months ago

        Its actually Woden’s Day for the old English god of Mercury but then in French it’s just Mercredi

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
          4·
          10 months ago

          Yup. Also spelled Wotan (t and d are kind of ambiguous in younger futhark), and probably known better to a modern audience as Odin.

  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
    2434·
    10 months ago

    Remember getting the newspaper and flipping straight to the memes page? Or going to the meme book store? Or getting up early to watch the Saturday memes on TV?

    It sounds stupid because comics and cartoons aren’t memes.

    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
      312·
      10 months ago

      A comic or a cartoon could express a meme, just like anything else. Not in this case, though.

      Most people just see “meme” as “a funny picture with text on it”, so a comic fits right in there. Technically speaking, most things posted as memes aren’t memes, but people are too lazy to separate these things out. And really, why should they?

    • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      10 months ago

      Imagine giving a remote fuck about this and getting all worked up enough to comment on it

      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
        27·
        10 months ago

        Imagine not giving a fuck about filling out other communities that need more content in favor of having a garbage dump for everything.

        I apologize for wanting to see the Fediverse grow into a fully fleshed out group of instances with active communities.