The Off Topic Topic

[Jaron]

What about Henry Fjord?

[Barrister]

Yet Henry is barely mentioned

And the world's largest company is run by a Tim. 

And Joshua?  Eh, he'll have to manage by merely having the same name as Our Lord and Saviour. 

[Jaron]

Is our Lord and Savior named Joshua?

[Razgovory]

I'm fairly certain that it has it's origins in Dawkin's word, and it's usage is an attempt to describe what he thought a "meme" was.

the first person who used it incorrectly by applying the word to the internet phenomenon, yeah. your beef is with him. but all the other people? at this point, you can't change the name. it's all over the place. maybe really, really early on there might have been enough force to change it from "meme" to something else, but now it's become a common expression. therefore, "meme" has a new definition. imagine a dictionary: meme = (1) dawkins's meme, (2) internet meme.

The thing is, it wasn't being used incorrectly.  It's pretty close to what Dawkins meant by a meme (the concept is incoherent so "pretty close" is about the best you can do for any use of the word).  It is simply a bad idea that having being rejected by academia (or never taken seriously), continues to be used by idiots on the Internet.

[garbon]

Having my first pumpkin spiced latte. I paid how much extra for some nutmeg and cinnamon?

edit: Actually maybe people like it for the ending. Last several mouthfuls look to be full of spice and sugar. I took one sip of the end and had to give up as that is even too much sugar for me.

[Eddie Teach]

Is our Lord and Savior named Joshua?

People say that a lot, though it seems odd as there is another bible figure whose name is commonly transliterated as "Joshua" rather than "Jesus".

[Ideologue]

Meh, Yehoshua and Yeshua are forms of the same Hebrew name.

[Razgovory]

Is our Lord and Savior named Joshua?

People say that a lot, though it seems odd as there is another bible figure whose name is commonly transliterated as "Joshua" rather than "Jesus".

I think that's for the convenience of Westerners.  One name is more latinized then the other so people can tell the people apart.  It's confusing to have a culture with only 10 names.  I mean look at the 12 Apostles.

Simon also known as Peter
Andrew
James
John
Philip
Bartholomew for some reason called Nathanael
Thomas also called Didymus
Mathew
Another guy named James
Thaddaeus also called Jude
Another guy named Simon
Judas

These are latanized names.  I don't know what they are originally.

[Valmy]

I think you mean Greekified names. And none of them are typical greek or latin names so I don't get the convenience part.

[Ideologue]

Well, Philip and Peter are pretty Greek.

[Valmy]

Well, Philip and Peter are pretty Greek.

Well that's true. But that might have been their actual names, lots of Greek influence in that region.

[alfred russel]

Shocking statistic: there are more CEOs called Andrew or Andy than there are women.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2015/sep/29/want-to-get-ahead-in-business-be-man-called-andrew

On a positive note, the study seems to disprove the stereotype that a significant number of women are sleeping their way to the top.

[Lettow77]

Alarm clocks are standing in the way of women's upward mobility.

[jimmy olsen]

From an old thread on the CivFanatic forums:

Should have posted that in the Welsh thread.

[Razgovory]

I think you mean Greekified names. And none of them are typical greek or latin names so I don't get the convenience part.

Most of our Greek words are Latanized.  There is a reason we talk about centaurs rather then Kentauros.