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Etymology of the wword Sophistry: in ancient Greece thinky people used to hang out and chat and philosophize in this grove and in particular they did a lot of it at these comfy couches, obv very nice for chilling and philosophizing. they called this spot "The Sofas" for obvious reasons so they were all big on the pursuit of truth and all, always talking things out at The Sofas, so it took a while for this to happen but one day someone said something they knew to be false. everyone knew it too. but to their surprise, a leaf fell down from the tree that shaded them, the Sofas Tree, and on the leaf quite mysteriously were written some very fancy words that made this lie sound more believable. they were fascinated and from then on just for fun / curiosity sometimes they'd hang out at The Sofas and tell a lie and see what the tree said to make it sound believable. one day, out in the town, one of the thinkers saw another one talking to people and convincing them of something he knew to be false, using fancy words. she knew what must have happened but was appalled he would use it for ill gain! She came up and was like "nice argument... where'd you get that, the sofas tree?" And the lying guy sulked away, embarrassed Bbut soon others were tempted to use the fancy word styles from the tree for ill gain! The good thinkers would call them out on using words from the sofas tree. Eventually the call-out got abbreviated like most things do, dropping the 'the' from "where'd you get that, the sofas tree?" until they just began referring to such rhetoric itself as "sofas-tree" and that's how it happened |
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"weed" so one day a bunch of cavemen were sitting in a field grunting when og--the clown of the group--decided to pretend that the leafy green nuisance plants scattered around the field were good to smoke. "og puff puff green shrubs," he said, to which the other cavemen responded "speak properly og, we're not retarded. and that's a pretty dumb idea." however og was determined, so he smoked a whole bunch of these leaves and, next thing you know, he was laughing so hard he pissed all over himself. "og make wee-wee," he said, then offered some of the still-smoking leaves to his companions. "actually we would rather not," said og's friends. "it's wednesday afternoon and we have a big stegosaurus hunt tomorrow." to commemorate this crazy day, everyone decided to name the plant "weed" after og's cousin, marijuana j. weed.
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