Duenos Inscription Puns

Someone started this up like a month ago and people liked it, but stopped after a couple days, so I'll take on the burden until I too get bored of it:

Every language changes and evolves over time, and one of the most common changes across all languages across the world is a sound change, where over time speakers start pronouncing certain vowels or consonants a bit differently over time. One of the most famous is the Great English Vowel shift in Middle English, where the pronunciation of all long vowels (like u, in contrast to a short o) changed which is why modern English spelling is so irregular.

But today's factoid isn't about English sound changes, but one from Archaic to Classical Latin. Archaic Latin was a very conservative language that preserved a lot of Proto-Indo-European pronunciation, but a lot of these sounds changed in the development of Classical Latin. For example the Archaic nominative singular 2nd declension ending -ōs transformed into the familiar Latin ending -us, which we can observe in a transformation in inscriptions bearing the Archaic name Maniōs into the much more Roman Manius.

Another significant sound change between the two forms of Latin was the transformation of the initial consonant cluster Dw- into a more simple B- sound. The famous Duenos vase begins with the word "Duenos", which is most likely an archaic form of the Latin word "Bonus" or more accurately "gift", before the latter underwent the above mentioned sound change.

Now for the fun fact: the Archaic Latin parent of the Classical word "bellum" (war) can be confidently reconstructed as "dwellōm" given the sound changes that have been identified. Bits of archaic Latin were preserved in poetic or literary register because the Romans thought that anything that was old was necessarily good or better, and using archaic words for no reason would make your text objectively good. That archaic Latin "dwellōm" was thus preserved into Classical literary Latin as "duellum" - which Classical Latin speakers interpreted as meaning a "little war", or a combat between two people - which is ultimately the origin of the word "duel" in English.

Phil

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

Well, toucan play at that game.

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

She said apple-lutely

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

I heard parents named their children lance a lot.

First post please don't kill me

Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!

second hand stores!

it's Hans free now..

Old Neeeeiiiiighvy

10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too

A buck-an-ear!

I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!

Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!

He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.

Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:

Riceless

That was the punchline

Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"

I did not know.

So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"

So proud.

Feyonce

He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.

He said, “Change the batteries in your hearing aid”.

She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up

So far no one has given me a straight answer.

Alzheimer, Grandma, it's Alzheimer.

Japan.

You look for the fresh prints!

Transparent

(sorry it sucks, it's like 2:30 in the morning right now and I haven't slept)

(Edit: holy shit! I wasn't expecting this to get so many upvotes. Also thanks for the awards guys, I really appreciate it!)

It’s a dad-ly disease.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads that get me though my day to day life, without you Dad Jokes wouldn’t mean a thing 😉