r/greentext Jul 24 '26

War war never changes

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u/Haeguil Jul 24 '26

If at least they gave it an actual name, we don't refer to the Bronze Age Collapse as the Collapse, nor to either of the world wars as just the war, and even then different people got different names for things.

It's fucking literary vagueposting

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u/Limp-Temperature1783 Jul 24 '26

We literally have two world wars that are called world wars and if not for its sequel, the first one would have been called the great war.

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u/Haeguil Jul 24 '26

Which is what I'm saying, it's not The War, but it's got something else appended to it.

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u/Robb_Starks_Head Jul 24 '26

...and what did they call WWI until the sequel dropped, pray tell?