• psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Despite popular believes, H.P. Lovecraft isn’t a Cthulhu himself, but someone who popularise the idea of Cthulhu.

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    It follows the pattern of Kafkian, Goethean, Brechtian, Ibsenian, Camusian, Foucauldian…

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      2 months ago

      Like USian over American…I get it but it sounds stupid

      Frank Lloyd Wright tried to popularize “Usonian,” but it never made it past the context of architecture.

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      2 months ago

      USians sounds stupid because most of the world think USians are pretty stupid so it’s got a secondary aspect to it too. Plus, it’s not fair on the other countries in the Americas to be tarred with the USian brush. They have it hard enough and nobody needs that association.

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    2 months ago

    Why capitalise the word? In my book it is written Ingsoc so it would be ingsocian, not INGSOCian

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        In the real world, for sure. In response to the meme, I wanted to avoid using the last name version. What I really wanted was the name of the ruling party from the book, but it’s been too long and I don’t remember it anymore.

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    2 months ago

    Isn’t that short for English socialism? It’s been a while since I read the book but I’m pretty sure.

    These fuckers aren’t socialists.