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“I gotta say, this kid really thinks he’s the alpha and the omega du jour”.
by jorvi 3y ago
“I gotta say, this kid really thinks he’s the alpha and the omega du jour”.
- asveikau 3y agoI think a lot of English speakers would not know what that phrase would mean. "Alpha and Omega" as used in English is a biblical reference, does not really have much to do with practical knowledge of Greek. Du jour would be understood on a restaurant menu for soup more than anything else.
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- floydnoel 3y agoi understood it just fine
- denton-scratch 3y agoNot me. It read to me as the kind of pretentious garble spoken by someone who doesn't know the meaning of the words they're uttering, and perhaps doesn't even know what thought they're trying to communicate.
- LouisSayers 3y agoYeah, kiwi here and I have no idea what "the omega du jour" means.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y ago"The omega du jour" means nothing. You're parsing the sentence wrong. The alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. It's the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and a Biblical reference to the Almighty. And then du jour means "of the day".
- asveikau 3y agoThe fact that they parsed it as "omega du jour" makes me think even more that it's not typical speech.