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Anon reads Don Quixote

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a shitty question though. Totally irrelevant to the meat of the story, and definitely not a proof someone read the whole thing and thought about it.

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    • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Welcome to the school system

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    • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Questions like that are good to know if somebody read the thing. You don’t get details in resumes.

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      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, it isn’t.

        Most people will not retain the name of an animal that doesn’t speak. The horse has zero impact on the story, and only serves as a piece of Quixote’ personality signifiers

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rocinante and the only reason I know is because of The Expanse.

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    • TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One of my favorite fan theories is that the authors did not name the ship after the horse from don quixote directly. There is a Rush song called Cygnus X-1 that’s basically a space opera and the ship in that song is called the Rocinate, and one of the authors of The Expanse is a huge rush fan. So in my mind that is where the ships name comes from.

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      • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        One the expanse loosely based on a play by post RPG game the author was running? Maybe the name came from that? Isn’t that also why Shed was killed off, the player couldn’t play anymore.

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      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I also learned it from Rush, hell yeah!

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    • sanzky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love that the guys say something like “it means war horse”. Rocinante is a word play with “Rocin antes”. Rocin being an old weak horse unfit for serious work and. ‘antes’ is the spanish word for ‘before’.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        americans wrote it. it has to be ‘bad ass’.

        americans can’t understand irony. too dumb.

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      • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So it translates to “Prenag”? I love it.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I only know it because it’s the name of my best friends horse. He played the violin at our wedding

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What a talented horse

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Smart horse

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    • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For me it’s because of One Piece

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Shame! (bling)

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    • bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I only know it because of Limbus Company XD

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    • TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I never made this connection but now I imagine this as Holden being self-aware / self-critical.

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    • monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For me it’s “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” by The Books.

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    • pno2nr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What about John Steinbeck? Travels with Charley.

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  • Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rocinante

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I only know this because of The Expanse.

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      • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Beltalowda!

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      • J92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I only know the name of the ship from Moby Dick from MGS V.

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    • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s one badass horse right there Image

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s pronounced legitimate salvage

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The guy from One Piece?

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      • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well duh, it’s a book about Doflamingo after all.

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I never read the book, and I knew this somehow

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On pizza?

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    only remember the name because of The Expanse

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But if you pronounce it like the show, every Spanish speaker has the right to whoop your ass just once

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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      • sober_monk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        laughs in Baaathelona

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If that principle applied throughout history, anglophones would have evolved either an armored ass or no ass at all. I believe they are pathologically incapable of grasping the phonology of foreign languages. Just ask any native English speaker the name of the Soviet Union’s general secretary that succeeded Stalin and preceded Brezhnev… realistically, nine out of ten will have no idea, and the remaining one will say he was some “cruise chef”.

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  • Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I read the book about a year ago and I recently I was trying to remember the name of the horse for some reason. I also completely blanked on it, and it took me a few minutes.

    I’m pretty terrible at remembering details like that. My brain just stores things relatively, like ‘the main character’s brother’, even after reading his name a hundred times.

    Anon should have just told his teacher that the horse (rocinante) is nothing compared to Sancho’s she-ass.

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    • frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I never remember the author’s name. I have consistently gotten it wrong in nearly every quiz. Lol

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      • hawgietonight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Everyone knows him as Cervantes, even though his full name is Miguel de Cervantes. I live in Castilla-La Mancha and everywhere is Quijote… I even know a lady called Dulcinea… not a common name btw.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        i remember it because of soulcalibur

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same experience with a really old German book. He wanted to know the color of the hat one of the side characters was wearing. I had no clue, after investing so much time into trying to understand it. That kinda made me give up - why try to participate when the outcome is the same as if I didn’t?

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      this entire thread is full of dumb takes but this is one of the dumbest

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  • Boozilla@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Feel this in my bones. I enjoy reading books, but they go down the memory hole fast for me, especially names.

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    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a strong case of the "My eyes were moving correctly but i was thinking about lunch for the last 3 paragraphs"es

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        finally, an honest bloke appears.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      if you are like Anon it’s because you read too fast. slow the fuck down and maybe you’d remember relevant details.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For me, the problem with “Rocinante” is I don’t know how to pronounce it. So, while reading, I’d skip past it, recognizing that it’s the horse, but not parsing it as a word.

    If asked that question, I’d need to explain that, but I’d stumble over the word.

    If a book has too many oddly (to me) spelled names, I’ll skip it for this reason. Apostrophes in the middle and no vowels, and I’m not going to read your book.

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    • baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ro Cin An Te

      Roh sin ahn the

      Rocinante

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      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why would you make it a ‘th’ at the end??

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      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thin, not sin.

        Ro as in rod. Thin as in, well, thin. An as in ant. Te as in tent.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        it’s not hard, they are just american.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For me, the problem with “Rocinante” is I don’t know how to pronounce it.

      If you’re using a European language, you’re pronouncing it correctly, or close enough.

      If your only contact with English is the written word, I guess it depends on what languages you’re familiar with.

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    • whatstatersprecious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Spanish is incredibly easy to pronounce though? There are only a couple things different than English and none of those differences are relevant for Rocinante. It’s also consistent in pronunciation, unlike English.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what’s it like being a stubborn dumbass?

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anon should be disappointed in their teacher, honestly.

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  • sumsinj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tbh I don’t remember more than 2 character names per story. If a chapter contains more than two actors then I am totally confused who those persons were and their relationships and such…

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is why I greatly appreciated how in This Is How You Lose the Time War, there are only two characters that matter and their names are Red and Blue

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      • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I read that book. I don’t remember a single thing about it.

        I still recommend it, albeit begrudgingly, to people who might like it. I think it was better than I received it. Maybe I shouldn’t have just listened to the audiobook, but rather, read it at my own pace and re-read certain paragraphs, rather than having them read to me one after the other. Because there was something more in that text. Some books are better in audio, and some are better in text. I can’t imagine an audiobook exists of House of Leaves, but it wouldn’t surprise me. So, maybe one day I’ll go back and actually read This is How You Lose the Time War, because it probably deserved more attention paid to it, and it probably deserves a second look.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Have fun with “War and Peace”. Sooo many characters and everyone is some kind of Count or Lord and many of them have a Russian and a French name and switch between them depending on context. I listened to the whole thing as audiobook and it basically took me the whole first book (of 4) to get a vague understanding of the characters. Listening helped a little bit because the reader had a slightly different intonation depending on which character was speaking.

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      • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Great story, probably best experienced in a series instead of in the book lol.

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    • bruh11@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thats why I dont like Game of thrones

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wasn’t it a donkey? I think it was named Rocinante? Idk, I read it like 16 years ago.

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I for some reason thought Don Quixote rode a donkey too… Where’d that come from?

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      • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think his “squire” had one, so maybe they get conflated XD

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Kind of, maybe? But probably not.

      In the original, Geralt’s horse’s name is “Płotka” - has technically the same meaning as Roach (a small, cheap kind of fish), but the term is also sometimes used for easy, inconsequential and irrelevant things.

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      • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Good to know! It’d be a cool reference, but I guess it wouldn’t really fit with Geralt’s character. He’s pretty far off from Don Quixote XD

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The names of the 3 musketeers regularly come up in crosswords and no matter how many times I see it I can’t remember one of the 4. There’s Porthos, Athos, and I believe D’Artagnan was the one who joined later. Doesn’t help that their names sound vaguely like the 3 fates: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Aramis is the one you’re missing, and he’s also the one I always forget. I can remember porthos and athos because they sound similar, and d’artagnan was the name of the company my old job used for some supplies, but Aramis is too easy a name to forget.

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      • kamee@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe both of you guys issue is that you think of Porthos first, Athos, Porthos, Aramis is burned in to my mind, never read any book about musketeers either and I am terrible with names

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are we supposed to say “ask me a harder question” in this situation?

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Horsey McHorseface

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  • butsbutts@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    horsey mchorseyton

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if you read don quixote in two days you’re a definitely a retard.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rocinante! Can’t believe I remembered that. That book is a hoot.

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this not a trick question?

    Maybe I’m mistaken but didn’t he ride a donkey not a horse?

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I will do you the anime version.

    Watch “tatami galaxy” or “humanity had declined.”

    Wait 1 day after done.

    What are the protagonists’ names?

    Hint: They have the same name.

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  • PixeIOrange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    😞

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I read that as house and was confused by the comments for a while

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is it Juan Quixote?

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  • Renat@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At highschool I once have question about a colour of house the main character bougth. Native languege lessons sucks. After elementary school it is just waste of time.

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