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Context: Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte y Palacios Blanco also known as Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary figure and namesake for the country of Bolivia.

The Victorian Era is named after Queen Victoria and her depressing clothing choices.

Caesar Salad is named after a Mexican Italian chef, Caesar Cardini. Who is well known for overseeing the Roman Republics collapse into an empire.

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[–] 25 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

I was gonna say that the c-section is also named after him but i checked before posting and its apparently not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section#Etymology

Speculations that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section are false.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago*

    Might've been the other way around, his family was named after the procedure:

    The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, 'to cut', with children delivered this way referred to as caesones. Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, 'cut from the womb' giving this as an explanation for the cognomen Caesar which was then carried by his descendants.

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  • [–] 14 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

    Huh til.
    To add: his name did end up becoming the definition of emperor in many Germanic and Slavic languages (e.g. Kaiser and czar)

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago* (6 children)

    Fun fact: ceasar was pronounced more like Keasar which makes the Kaiser appear more sensible. I wondered for years how that happened and then learned the original pronunciation

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    We also use the original sound in Japanese for the historical figures and title i.e. カエサル (kaesaru), but the English pronunciation for Caesar salad i.e. シーザーサラダ (shīzā sarada).

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    I know English does this a decent bit but it always makes me smile when I hear a Japanese person speaking Japanese and then just randomly hitting you with a borrowed English word but with a Japanese accent

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  • [–] 1 point 7 minutes ago

    It's cute until you're speaking Japanese in Japan and have to remember how to say a particular mangled English word in order to be understood. You have to learn to pronounce so many things ostensibly like a character doing a racist Japanese accent.

    I wore my bureza (blazer) and wai shatsu (white dress shirt) and rode my baiku (bike) to sutaba (starbucks) and bought a koppu (cup) of ko-hi (coffee).

    As a language learner it gets old.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Huh, learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing that.

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  • [–] 6 points 19 hours ago

    The sentence right after makes it pretty obvious why too:

    Although caesarean sections were performed in Roman times, no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery, while Caesar's mother lived for years after his birth.

    There was no proper understanding (or possibility) of sterile surgery back then, so a c-section was just a death sentence.

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