Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Terms of Endearment

 Meta employees call Mark Zuckerberg "the Eye of Sauron" and he likes it [More]

Sounds like he's channeling Sally Field...

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Tangentially-related UPDATE:

Looks like He Who Must Not Be Named has been named again.

[Via Michael G]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Oderint, dum metuant" -- Gaius Caligula

As you found with your "Any chair in a bar fight", translation can be tricky if you intend to capture things like connotations and slang.

The most direct translation of perhaps the most famous Roman emperor is...

"Let them hate (me) so long as they fear (me)."