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   Jens Ohlig (johl@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:14:21 JST Jens Ohlig

   @researchfairy If you read Martin Luther‘s translation of the Bible into German and Goethe‘s Faust, your entire time will be spent on saying “Oh, that’s where the German language comes from!”

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:14:18 JST mhoye

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     • Jeremy Kahn

     @trochee @johl @researchfairy

     Umberto Eco's review of Casablanca famously said that one cliche is trite, and two cliches is boring, but a hundred cliches is a party.

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:14:20 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     @johl @researchfairy

     I've heard a similar joke

     "I don't see what's so special about this Shakespeare fellow; he's simply taken a bunch of well known cliches and strung them together into plays"

     Rocketman repeated this.