PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Warning: Lutris discord tolerates far right, racism and genocide apologiaEnglish242·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade
The phrase predates the use of the word “spade” as an ethnic slur against African Americans (and others of African descent), which was not recorded until 1928.
The ultimate source of this idiom is a phrase in Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica: τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγοντας (tēn skaphēn skaphēn legontas). The word σκαφη (skaphe) means “basin or trough”. Lucian De Hist. Conscr. (41) has τὰ σύκα σύκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάσων (ta suka suka, tēn skaphēn de skaphēn onomasōn), “calling a fig a fig, and a trough a trough”.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Slrpnk.net outage (resolved)English61·2 months agoThat sucks. Thank you for your time and running the instance. Gonna miss you all like hell while you’re gone. 😞
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)English01·6 months agoI think we’re good now lol.
In all seriousness, to the users and admins of slrpnk.net, you have my solidarity. Hope this all gets resolved soon.
Edit: oh shit welcome back!