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> the Take Two team was just getting started on the almost Sisyphusian task of post-production. Did anyone else get tripped up by that monstrosity of a word? E
by Y_Y 7y ago
> the Take Two team was just getting started on the almost Sisyphusian task of post-production.
Did anyone else get tripped up by that monstrosity of a word? Even google responds with:
> Did you mean: Sisyphean
- justinjlynn 7y agoIt's like a weird attempt at a portmanteau of Malthusian and Sisyphean.
- Y_Y 7y ago"The belief that population tries to increase exponentially, but is inevitably dragged down by disease, famine, or war. Widespread poverty and frustration inevitably result."
- ThePadawan 7y agoIt's how a non-English-native speaker would build the adjective to Sisyphus. After all, that is his name. My native tongue is German, and if I hadn't heard the word Sisyphean before, I would have tried to find it in the same manner. In German, tasks would be described as "Sisyphus labors", not via the adjective. Thus, it would be reasonable for a German speaker to know the person's name more than the metaphorical word for "laborious + futile".