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Mr_Westerfield OP t1_j6fjz6w wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield

TIL people get weirdly aggressive when you reference a term they haven’t heard before, as though it’s a requirement for it to be legitimate

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RedtheGamer100 t1_j6fmn98 wrote

$10000 you didn't know the phrase before you stumbled upon it lol

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Mr_Westerfield OP t1_j6fnxx4 wrote

Sure, I’ll admit it. I didn’t know the term until I heard it, unlike every other expression, which I just kinda innately know

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