You know, this did tickle my curiosity, cause I also did not know what fairy tale Donkey was supposed to be from, and I’ve heard that he wasn’t from any fairytale in the past too. Thank you for this, I have a copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales at home, I’ll need to check this story out when I get back.
Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
donkey doesn’t tie into any fairytales
The donkey, therefore, was brought up and grew bigger, and his ears grew up beautifully high and straight. He was, however, of a merry disposition, jumped about, played and had especial pleasure in music, so that he went to a celebrated musician and said, “Teach me thine art, that I may play the lute as well as thou dost.” (The Donkey by the Brothers Grimm)
It costs $0 to lie on the internet, reminder.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
yay! i love the brothers grimm
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It costs $0 to lie on the internet, reminder.
Oh, no, no, no.
It’s the opposite.
It’s gives “you” monies to lie on the inter of webs (well, it can give you money, but some go for glory too & let the megacorps get the). Every shitty thing is monetized.Thats why we lemmy over here.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
wiktionary dot com slash grift
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The “donkey” in the story is able to “throw off his ass’s skin” and is a human underneath. Definitely not the same character.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
And Shrek is Scottish compared to almost every other fairy tale ogre lol. There is no meaningful point to be made there.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The point is that there’s no reason to think that this particular talking donkey character from a Grimm’s story inspired Donkey in Shrek in any way.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
and the donkey in the bible was only temporarily vocal in order to speak a specific message to one dude. again, no conclusion to be found here, only to point out that OP is misinformed.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t even assume it was a lie. Just figured anon was ignorant.
That is also my default assumption.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
TBF, I wouldn’t put it past a 4Chan OP to be ignorant either