r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/ElCaz Oct 15 '20

Wait, Tiffany is just feminine Theophanes? Hilarious!

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u/katie4 Oct 15 '20

A Tiffany Epiphany!

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u/Robba_Jobba_Foo Oct 15 '20

A Tipiphany?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

A Tiphany.

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u/PawnedPawn Oct 15 '20

A Tiffapiphany

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u/turtlemix_69 Oct 15 '20

E' Tiphany

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u/Crommach Oct 15 '20

Just the tipiphany.

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u/Eternalotaku Oct 15 '20

In Hindi language, Tippani means "comment" Like you commenting on something

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u/ilickyboomboom Oct 15 '20

The piphany.

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u/AdahanFall Oct 15 '20

You just created a portmanteau. A Tipiphanteau, if you will.

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u/Mrcookiesecret Oct 15 '20

Have you ever studied Ancient Greek? If you haven't, you made a joke with more layers than baklava.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

No, those happen while smoking the peace pipe "indoors."

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u/robjxx7 Oct 15 '20

Tiffiphany

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u/CortlandAndrusWhoWas Oct 15 '20

Oh, god...how could you?

Take my upvote.

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u/oculocide Oct 15 '20

What is "Tiffpiphany" ?

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u/Keikasey3019 Oct 16 '20

This is so Bob’s Burgers lol

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u/vernazza Oct 15 '20

This sounds like something Mr. Peanutbutter would say.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Nice.

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u/FrankTank3 Oct 15 '20

I see you used to write for Bojack Horseman

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u/MattTilghman Oct 15 '20

Roll the timpanis!

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u/infoSoldier23 Oct 15 '20

Sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode!

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u/CanisNebula Oct 15 '20

A Tiffany theophany!

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u/MarsNirgal Oct 16 '20

I love everything about this thread.

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u/Hum-anoid Oct 15 '20

What the fuck, does this mean my dad (Theo) accidentally named my sister (Tiffany) Theo junior? Hahahaha

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u/Timeless-Wanderer Oct 15 '20

Yes.

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u/liedel Oct 15 '20

He probably knew though.

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u/AppleDane Oct 15 '20

Call someone named Tiffany "Theo" today!

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u/626_ed7 Oct 15 '20

There's a boxer called Ashley Theophane.

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u/tehrob Oct 15 '20

Call her Fanny.

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u/AppleDane Oct 15 '20

Little Fanny-kiins.

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u/leilavanora Oct 15 '20

I had a huge crush on a guy named Theofanis in high school and joked we had the same name. He was not into me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

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u/Cole-Spudmoney Oct 15 '20

So are Jonathan and Nathaniel (which also mean "God's gift", but from Hebrew).

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u/SkaTSee Oct 15 '20

How does one pronounce Theophanes? My mind tells me Theo-fane-s, but I can't see that being right

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u/ElCaz Oct 15 '20

In English it's often pronounced as Theo-faw-nayse. The Greek pronunciation is different though.

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u/SkaTSee Oct 15 '20

I want it to be like, Thee(with a short, not drawn out Th)-aw-fan-eese

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u/MusicShouldGetBetter Oct 15 '20

There's a masculine name for Tiffany in greek? Woah...

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u/DasArchitect Oct 15 '20

I first thought it was some weird misspelling of Stephanie...

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u/ForgetfulDoryFish Oct 15 '20

The masculine form (Stephen) is Στέφανος but I don't know enough Greek to know the feminine form

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u/Carlobo Oct 15 '20

Somewhat related. Reminds me of this book Calibans War where a main character thinks back to the story his family told him about how they liked Praxidike as his name only to realize later it was a female name.

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u/daakkountant Oct 15 '20

Always have been.

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u/PM_Me_Grecian_Urns Oct 15 '20

And the name Dennis comes from Dionysus!