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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

I went to Kafka's house in Prague and they had The Country Doctor in several languages. I wanted it as a souvenir so I bought it in the original German even though I don't speak German. I also wanted to read it, though, so I bought an English copy too, assuming the translation would be closer than to Spanish, my native language. But I also wanted to gift it to an old teacher, so I bought it in Spanish, as well. My girlfriend then arrived and told me she would like a Swedish copy since she's learning the language. I went to pay and the girl at the counter immediately goes "oh, wow, you speak so many languages".

[–] karashta@lemm.ee 143 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The elitist that doesn't know Ovid was Roman, not Greek.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

I had to quickly check the wikipedia because I thought I misremembered it.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago

Using the term 'elitism' when describing yourself is such a huge fucking red flag

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 week ago

A person who is new to the job and stressed out warrants the creation of a god complex? How bizarre. I feel like you’ve stumbled upon a uniquely misanthropic thought pattern.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Plot twist: he was actually looking for 177013.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

That was my first thought, I'm too far gone

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I thought that was the joke too

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 1 week ago

Fake: Ovid was Roman

Gay: Ovid

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

"God, modernist literary fiction is so plebian." - anon probably.

Next he'll ask for "ulysses" and get mad when pointed to James Joyce instead of Homer.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

The Kafka story is the singular (sis) and Ovids is the plural (ses). Wikipedia disambiguate does not list them on the same pages, which is confusing.

[–] don@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

You can tell things are all right when anon keeps making shit up. “World keeps turning, sun keeps burning, anon keeps yearning.”

[–] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

This post ironically reads like a Kafka story

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

Elite?

looks up from OV Epic of Gilgamesh stone tablets

This shit right here was written before the word „elite“ even existed

smh

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The OP in this screenshot feels superior because they are reading classical literature, which they believe is Greek but is actually Latin, and talking to an awkward bookstore employee on their first day who got flustered because they forgot that Ovid's metamorphoses was also a thing and were probably initially quite proud of themselves for instantly guessing "Kafka" when someone mentioned a book called metamorphoses.

Or maybe anon is just rage baiting ancient Greek/latin nerds.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

The OP in this screenshot feels superior because they are reading classical literature, which they believe is Greek but is actually Latin, and talking to an awkward bookstore employee on their first day who got flustered because they forgot that Ovid's metamorphoses was also a thing and were probably initially quite proud of themselves for instantly guessing "Kafka" when someone mentioned a book called metamorphoses.

Or maybe OP is just rage baiting ancient Greek/latin nerds.