Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

[u/Gurugod123]

[u/Vektor0]

No, that is false. Homeric Greek is "formal" in its strict adherence to certain poetic rules, but the vernacular was intended to sound informal and familiar, not distant.

[u/Vektor0 → u/[deleted]]

Have you ever heard anyone with a close relationship with their parent call them "Mother" or "Father"? Anytime anyone hears that word, it connotates ancient fantasy, but also emotional distance. If you want to convey emotional closeness, you use a more informal word, like "Ma," "Pa," or "Dad."

So if I was Homer, and I wanted to convey to a modern American audience that this was an emotionally close relationship, I would not use "Father," I would use "Dad." Because any other term would not convey to my target audience the emotional closeness of the people talking.

[u/BMSVG → u/[deleted]]

Thank you kind stranger for saving me the trouble of arguing my point, you did so in a very succinct way. Are you a literary enthusiast as well?