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dreamer_easy) wrote2016-08-12 04:07 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2016-08-12 04:07 pm
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Big whoop
Hi, I'm hypomanic. Really interested by the "history behind Game of Thrones" DVD doco in which a historian described King Jeoffrey's loose historical inspiration (whose identity I have forgotten) as "drunk on his own majesty". Usually "majesty" has a positive connotation - "greatness" - but here it just means "bigness", the same root and sense as "major". Jeoffrey is literally puffed up.
I thought of similar words in other languages which can mean both "large" or "great". In Sumerian, the king is literally a "big man" and a lion is a "big dog". In Korean, the word is 대 dae (probably borrowed from Chinese 大 dà) - eg daehakgyo, "big school", a university; Sejong Daewang, "Great King Sejong"; and an early phrase I learned from a reality show, "dae silpae", literally "large failure" ie - "epic fail". :)
I thought of similar words in other languages which can mean both "large" or "great". In Sumerian, the king is literally a "big man" and a lion is a "big dog". In Korean, the word is 대 dae (probably borrowed from Chinese 大 dà) - eg daehakgyo, "big school", a university; Sejong Daewang, "Great King Sejong"; and an early phrase I learned from a reality show, "dae silpae", literally "large failure" ie - "epic fail". :)