Difference between revisions of ""The Worse, the Better.""
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| − | The quotation, "The Worse, the Better," means that if things get worse, then that will help them get better. It has wide application, but the main application is the idea that the political situation must get intolerable so people will rise up and so something about it, e.g. have a violent communist revolution. | + | The quotation, "The Worse, the Better," means that if things get worse, then that will help them get better. It has wide application, but the main application is the idea that the political situation must get intolerable so people will rise up and so something about it, e.g. have a violent communist revolution. Here are a variety of ways you might say it: |
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| + | "The worse the better." | ||
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| + | "The worse, the better." | ||
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| + | "The Worse, the Better." | ||
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| + | "Chyem hoozhye, tyem loozhye." | ||
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| + | "Hoozhye, loozhye." | ||
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| + | "Malior melior." | ||
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| + | "Tanto malior tanto melior." | ||
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| + | Comments may be sent to [email protected]. | ||
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| + | My friend the classics PhD suggested "tanto". I don't know if I did it right. He said it was some sort of a outlandish ablative preposition in this context (not his words; I forget his technical term but I will ask him). | ||
Revision as of 08:00, 28 April 2021
The quotation, "The Worse, the Better," means that if things get worse, then that will help them get better. It has wide application, but the main application is the idea that the political situation must get intolerable so people will rise up and so something about it, e.g. have a violent communist revolution. Here are a variety of ways you might say it:
"The worse the better."
"The worse, the better."
"The Worse, the Better."
"Chyem hoozhye, tyem loozhye."
"Hoozhye, loozhye."
"Malior melior."
"Tanto malior tanto melior."
Comments may be sent to [email protected].
My friend the classics PhD suggested "tanto". I don't know if I did it right. He said it was some sort of a outlandish ablative preposition in this context (not his words; I forget his technical term but I will ask him).
