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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 4 days ago

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 4 days ago
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    Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

    Middle of the bell curve: haha she’s stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece

    Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

    (The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)

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      Actual Right End: that’s not what you’d refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you’re an idiot

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        I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it

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          buy bible, sign out myself, eBay, profit

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          Which Pope?

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            Alexander Pope.

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            Original Author

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              Do not steal

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          Or which edition it is.

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          op said first edition, not signed

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            I can do a first edition of the Bible. No guarantees on which edition though.

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            Ok, pick a scroll any scroll

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            They just a word

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        Further right of the bell curve than you just to win the silly semantics game you’re playing: if you’re calling it “The Illiad” and not “Ἰλιάς” you are defacto referring to the book titled “The Illiad” which is the English translation which indeed had a much more recent publication date than the original work.

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        You say, as you spell ‘The Illiad’ in English, the earliest instance of which was translated in the 1600s.

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          Nice self report

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      She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.

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      Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.

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