• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    is it clear his dad wrote it? Isn’t that how surnames worked in the day? Like now it would be “John Smithson could lift this rock above his head” and anyone could have writtten it, including john smithson

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          15 hours ago

          Moreover, even if it was John Smithson who lifted his head, that would mean that Smith would have also been his father. Would he not have been proud of a great task? Even if the father wasn’t there, he still could have been proud.

          Language and memes are stupid. I say we go back to ungabunga