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a greek.
"I used to make burnt offerings to Athena before it was cool."
You mean Minerva.
Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Apparently. Which tells you that nothing new actually is. It also makes you wonder what a Roman hipster would have been like in Caesar's time.
a greek.
Greek culture and language were a prestige thing in classical Rome; they were practiced by the very upper crust of society. There's a reason Julius Caesar's last words were said to have been in Greek.
I don't think hipsters have achieved quite that level of glamour.
Re: Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
#43the Doodle abides....and somehow I take comfort in that...
Re: Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
#44doodle -> dude
google -> guge
(sorry that must have come)