I think “Know Thyself” comes from an inscription over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
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fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Business people are used to KYC so that makes sense. Unfortunately for them, I’m from the Internet…
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Except it’s just “Know Yourself”, because the inscription was in ancient Greek, so when translating it to English, we’d use modern English, not centuries-old English which uses personal pronouns that haven’t been used in English in centuries.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 27 minutes ago
That doesn’t change anything. Your entire point is that what we translate it to doesn’t change the meaning. So how does that matter?
My point isn’t that “Know Thyself” is the correct way. I was using that more or less interchangeably, since they’re synonymous. My point was that it comes from the Greek, not from Sun Tzu.
And unless you can rationalize why the original inscription being in Greek somehow changes that, I don’t see your point.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
in the biblical sense, it means “go fuck yourself”
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I think it means something more along the lines of “examine your latent biases and underlying assumptions, know the difference between perception and reality” but “go fuck yourself” works too, I guess…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sun tsu did it again!