I love the dive into the etymology and the history of words!!
At work we’ve always got a riddle board that gets updated every Saturday. It’s always very entertaining to see people stall their day to read the riddle, often aloud, and dedicate their time to figuring out the riddle they know isn’t going to offer them any reward (least of all liberating the city of Thebes). There’s an unmistakable delight we humans get when triumphing over a brain twister. It’s one of my more favourite parts of being us.
So glad you enjoyed, and love having a riddle at work! And you’re so right what a great thing about just being human, our delight in funny little things like words.
I love the dive into the etymology and the history of words!!
At work we’ve always got a riddle board that gets updated every Saturday. It’s always very entertaining to see people stall their day to read the riddle, often aloud, and dedicate their time to figuring out the riddle they know isn’t going to offer them any reward (least of all liberating the city of Thebes). There’s an unmistakable delight we humans get when triumphing over a brain twister. It’s one of my more favourite parts of being us.
Lastly, congrats on deleting TikTok!!
So glad you enjoyed, and love having a riddle at work! And you’re so right what a great thing about just being human, our delight in funny little things like words.
And thank you for the congrats hahah