> If you ever listen to Russian propaganda, there's a similar theme: every big idea, everything good, all of it was definitely first developed in Russia - only Russians could ever have thought of it. Of course, Russia isn't actually a world leader in any of those things, or able to execute on them.
replyWhen I was a kid watching Star Trek VI, I was confused by the line "You've not experienced Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon".
And then I learned about how the Klingons (especially in that film) were a stand-in for the USSR.
But that was more of a jab at literary snobs who would tout "Homer in the original Greek" or "Marcus Aurelius in the original Latin" or "Old Testament in the Original Hebrew". It has been such a meme, probably for centuries. Because it was not so long ago when university students were actually conversant in many classical languages such as those.
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