Precious Mermaid Oil

[lex_of_green]

My new roommate isn't named Piña Colada. His parents named him after a completely different fruity alcoholic beverage, but I'd like to show a token of respect for his privacy so I'm not going to tell you which one

Comments

[thecoweyed]

While the Romans didn't have the guitar proper, they did have the forerunner of the guitar (and the word we get 'guitar' from), the cithara. Which was in turn a Greek word/instrument, the kithara, and it's usually Greek stems used to express passions or fears, so it doesn't clash with the Greeky philia or phobia. A passion for guitars would then be kitharaphilia, though a lot of those English terms normalize the a or i to an o, so possibly kitharophilia. Lyrae and citharae were different creatures, though honestly I couldn't tell you what the difference between them was.

[lex_of_green]

This. This right here is exactly why I miss you so much.
Well, and for other reasons.

[thecoweyed]

I miss you guys, too. I still get job alerts for positions in WI and am like, man...

[drethelin]

Wait does this make the antikythera mechanism the first electric guitar?!

[thecoweyed]

Probably not. A kithara was a stringed instrument, but Kythera was the name of an island associated strongly with the goddess Aphrodite. I would guess that an antikythera mechanism would get rid of love/passion somehow?

[drethelin]

It's also actually far more like a calendar than anything else, but a man can dream. Why NOT put a sundial in your electric guitar? Why can't electric guitars keep track of the movements of celestial bodies?

[thecoweyed]

Or, actually, discovered opposite the island of Kythera. Now that I looked it up. :)