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I’m reading the Sandman right now, and a character talking to Julius Caesar praised him for giving the people cheap corn.
The Columbian exchange didn’t occur for a millennium and a half. Literally unreadable. Sorry Neil, I can’t continue reading this.
The word Caesar used in latin, in his book on the Gallic Wars is Frumentum, which is commonly translated into English as Corn. “How odd,” you might think. “I didn’t think the Romans would even have known that corn exists.”
The word corn is old. It means the main grain of the region. It also predates the old world discovering the maize growing in the new world. The use of the word to mean exclusively Sweetcorn or Maize is a fairly modern North American usage.
Panel 6: Corn: What Americans call "corn" is one specific grain,
originally native to the Americas. In Pre-Columbian English, though, "corn"
meant any grain, particularly the most important local grain, usually wheat,
and retains some portion of that meaning in British English today. It is used
in that sense here.
I hope this helps.
Someone tried to troll Gaiman by calling him out on corn. Gaiman clapped back by having actually researched the history and etymology of corn.
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Concept: a tabletop roleplaying campaign where all of the party members are drawn a tribe of Lawful Good kobolds serving a gold dragon. A very, very patient gold dragon.
Potential PC concepts include:
A paladin of Bahamut with an incredible Olde English accent (affected, of course - they think that’s how paladins talk, and no-one has been able to persuade them otherwise)
A dragonsoul sorcerer with enthusiastically terrible aim, who mostly uses their high Charisma to apologise
A rogue ostensibly seeking redemption for their extremely complicated Dark Past, the particulars of which never seem to be the same twice
A bard who serves as the tribe’s lorekeeper, and plays the role with a great deal more confidence than their actual grasp of the historical record warrants
A long-suffering fighter whose uncommon command of common sense is mitigated by their poor observational skills
sounds like a party to me
I had an idea like this once with all characters being rolled with a net negative ability modifier. The goal is to do the simplest activity.
