@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party
2025-02-03 22:30 UTC
@ElleGray@mstdn.social
Also Goliath was a Philistine.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Philistine
a: a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
b: one uninformed in a special area of knowledge
That tracks, actually.
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@draNgNon@hachyderm.io 2025-02-04 02:02
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party @ElleGray@mstdn.social that's not usually what I think of when you say "Philistine". I usually think of a geographical origin. ...in modern English, the term for "Philistine" is "Gaza strip".
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@blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2025-02-04 09:41
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party @ElleGray@mstdn.social For added irony, Philistine also became Palestine.