• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Latin class… We were translating the Aeneid and hit the word “uxorious” which wasn’t in the dictionary.

    The professor explained:

    “It’s an insult, it means ‘your wife makes all your decisions for you’ but that doesn’t carry the full meaning of how insulting it is. There is no equivalent in English.”

    So I raised my hand. “You mean ‘pussy whipped’, yeah, pretty sure every language has a variation on that.”