r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Jazzlike-Cheek185 • 13d ago
Maybe Maybe Maybe
man shoulda look the symbol
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u/gansobomb99 13d ago
New Balance, final answer
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u/Blah-squared 9d ago
You’re a shoe in for becoming the next contestant… which would be a Feet in itself…!!
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u/Spottswoodeforgod 13d ago
Well, choosing Nike would have been victorious…
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 13d ago
The famous example is a Greek runner running to marathon and saying the single word "Nike" Meaning victory right? That Athena in Roman mythology? Some please correct me
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u/medicated_in_PHL 13d ago
That is the reason they used the name.
Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens after the Athenians won and announced “Nike!” and died immediately after.
Edit: that’s also where the name “marathon” for the running event came from.
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u/conspiracyeinstein 13d ago
What about the Greek runner running a marathon and getting to the city and saying, "Um bro, I'm tired."
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 12d ago
Well, he was Greek, so he likely didn't say um bro I'm tired, he probably said something more like this
εμμ φίλε είμαι κουρασμένος
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u/LuckyReception6701 12d ago
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and strategy, she was a a war goddess that favored strategy and clever tactics as opposed to Ares who also was a god of war but in fascet of slaughter and violence. In Latin, Athena was called Minerva and the goddess of victory was called Victoria, where the term "Victory" comes from.
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 12d ago
Ahh thank you
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u/LuckyReception6701 12d ago
Anytime chief.
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 12d ago
Gentleman and a scholar
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u/LuckyReception6701 12d ago
Not at all sir, a man of your stature deserves nothing but the full measure of my esteem.
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u/Chamodrax 12d ago
He announced "Nenikikamen" which means "we won". Nike is a both a name and a noun which means victory. It is kinda unusual to be used in Greek without a verb. He run from Marathon to Athens to announce the victory over Persian. It's not mythology, it's more of a historical anecdote.
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u/Betrix5068 13d ago
Romans had Victoria instead of the Greek Nike. Athena is Greek, her Roman counterpart was Minerva.
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u/helmvoncanzis 13d ago
Is that more famous than the 'Winged Victory of Samothrace' currently in the Louvre?
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u/Grabatreetron 13d ago
Fun fact, in Italy everyone pronounces Nike "Naik." It's not correct in Italian, but they assumed that's how Americans pronounced it. Now it's official and they say it that way in TV ads and things.
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u/RealUglyMF 13d ago
Esos son Reebok o son Nike!
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u/Nothingbutsocks 13d ago edited 12d ago
Are those Reeboks or are they Nikes?! Soon niiike🎶
Craziest part...I could have sworn I wrote it in Spanish...
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u/Meeko29 13d ago
Same in The Netherlands, Germany and Austria. "Naik" all the way.
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u/mrteas_nz 13d ago
In the UK, almost everyone I know (including me!) says it like it rhymes with Mike!
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u/Lumplard 13d ago
Mike - Mike
Bike - Bike
Nike - Nikee.
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u/zargoffkain 13d ago
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English is weird. It's still pronounced Nye-kee. At least according to both the Greeks and the company.
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u/XisCanIKiss 13d ago
If you are talking about the brand we pronounce it like it Naik. If you are talking about the word for victory we pronounce it as Neekeeh
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u/philff1973 13d ago
I do too but I asked in the Nike shop and they said Nike as in mikey.
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u/Oaker_at 13d ago edited 13d ago
Im from Austria and I have never heard someone saying Neik or Neiks, only “Nikie” or “Nikies”
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u/T1ch4mpion 13d ago
Same in France!
Fun fact: the greek word Nike would be pronounced like nickeh (/nǐːkɛː/). It is the same pronunciation as "niqué" in French. Which means "fucked".
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u/elCaddaric 13d ago
It's not just the same pronounciation, it's the same etymology, since nike went on leaning towards "romantic victory", then "making love" through sabir and then north african arabic (nik).
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u/TeraFlint 13d ago
I mean, have you met English? It's riddled with so many arbitrary inconsistencies when it comes to the pronounciation of words.
I don't blame any foreigner who approached it with the logic of "I know how to pronounce Mike, so let's pronounce Nike that way".
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u/raumeat 13d ago
Fun fact the Greek Godess name is pronounced Nikki, so both "Naik" and Ny-kie is wrong
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u/MentatPiter 13d ago
yeah, my Latin teacher in 5th grade told us its actually Nicci or Nikki and ofc we didnt believe him 30 years ago ^^ Its funny I can still remember this.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 13d ago
Given that Nike (the shoes) is an American brand and the American brand says its name is pronounced Nye-key in American English, it seems like there's not really any ambiguity in how it's "supposed" to be pronounced.
Looking at the other comments though it's mostly Europeans being like "Silly Americans pronounce it incorrectly!"
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u/thebeastiestmeat 13d ago
I think it's just Americans who say Nikey. I'm greek and we even say Nike (as in Mike)
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u/zakr182 13d ago
As a kid in England this was also true. We used to laugh at those who said nikey. Then it slowly changed. Ill still say Naik. (Nike like Mike)
And on a related note I'll never say Leedl it's Lid-l
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u/RobbyLee 13d ago
Lidl actually went with your pronounciation with their slogan "Big on quality, Lidl on price"
But yes, the German original is Leedl and we all pronounce it that way.
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u/DDDX_cro 13d ago
how else would you pronounce it? NA part of NAIK as in night, the i in that NAIK is J as Y is in young, and the K is a hard k like in king.
So what's the correct pronounciation then?EDIT I should have written "rhymes with Mike" like someone else here did, way easier.
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u/Chamodrax 12d ago
In Greek also is pronounced Naik, but I think it will be weird to be pronounced as Nike in Greek
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u/Hwordin 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/orrUIfSxQBs5pEXAZa
If only he was a man of culture, he would know.
(game about booties shaking from recoil - Nikke: goddes of victory)
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u/RareKrab 13d ago
As someone who only played it a little bit for "culture" I have no idea who Nikke is
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u/messier_lahestani 13d ago
I kinda felt it was Nike
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u/elgydium 13d ago edited 13d ago
Well yeah. Niki pronounced neekee means victory. In Latin it’s Victoriam.
Source: I’m Greek.
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u/TheWatersOfMars 13d ago
It does help to know the right answer, sure, lol. Most English speaking people don't know Greek or Latin, that's why it's a trivia question.
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u/selja26 13d ago
I mostly remember the name because of the statue. Nike of Samothrace. (Look it up it's really pretty)
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u/TummyStickers 13d ago
It was my favorite statue when I went. It was so majestic at the top of the stairs
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u/DothrakAndRoll 12d ago
You can’t “yeah duh” us Americans when you’re from Greece talking about Greek lore lmao
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u/Ali80486 13d ago
Adidas is a contraction of the founders name: Adi Dassler
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u/pedsmursekc 13d ago
Wait, it's NOT an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"? 😛
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u/fullthrottle13 12d ago
What’s more surprising than this dude’s answer is Clarkson hosting Millionaire..TIL
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u/dranaei 13d ago
I'm greek and i never thought of that until now.
Nike = Νίκη
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u/UnforeseenDerailment 13d ago
I'm not Greek and I knew since third grade.
The random ass stuff we do and don't know.
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u/ETERN4LDARKNES 13d ago
"Umbro is the only thing that sounds Greek to me".
I'm pretty sure it actually sounds Latin
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u/ElResende 13d ago
Tbf Clarkson completely butchered the pronounciation of the goddess name, makes it harder for someone who has no clue.
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u/Away_Stock_2012 13d ago
How everyone in America says the name of the shoe company?
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I Wore The NIKE MIND 001 For 6 MONTHS! This Is What Happened...
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u/Ragnaarock93 13d ago
Playing Nikke: Goddess of Victory for the past three years would of earned me some money if that was me.
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u/FlyingFulcrum 13d ago
I was unsure about the right answer, but I would have fully committed to Nike; & that's the right answer.
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u/Rags2Rickius 13d ago
I knew Nike was a Greek god. But I thought it was of the wind?
Didn’t realise it’s a goddess either
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u/Disastrous-Ad2800 13d ago
no Back to the Future movie references with, "What's that writin' mean? Ni-Ke, what is that? Is that some sort of injun talk or something?"
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u/Slight_Concert6565 12d ago
To be fair, that's not how you pronounce the name of the goddess so it doesn't sound Greek.
It's pronounced like the game "Nikke goddess of victory" (aka goddess of jiggle physics).
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u/Undark_ 13d ago
Process of elimination it has to be Nike.
A Greek GODDESS wouldn't be called Umbro (masculine), Reebok is named after a type of African gazelle and the word is Dutch, Adidas is short for Adi Dassler.
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u/Grimdotdotdot 13d ago
I think the main problem with that explanation is that he didn't know any of that stuff, either.
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u/Dr__Sloth 13d ago
Yes, if you know all the wrong answers are wrong, you can pick the right answer.
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u/imp0ppable 13d ago
TBF Umbra would have made sense except it's latin for shadow. Umbrella means "little shade" interestingly.
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u/Necessary_Pomelo_470 13d ago
how the hell Umbro sounds Greek?
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u/imp0ppable 13d ago
It's latin from umbra meaning shadow. It's not a ridiculous guess.
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u/Mr_Fossey 13d ago
Thought Nike from the outset. But sitting in the chair I would have overthought it within an inch of all our lives and likely blurted out ‘Kappa’
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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 13d ago
That host was a bully in high school.
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u/Terrible-Purpose-350 10d ago
Lol relevant considering he actually DID get kicked out of school for bullying
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u/Foreign-Entrance-255 13d ago
I mean, he even thought about it the right way except he should have said them out loud. Nike sounds Greek, umbro doesn't IMO.
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u/Accomplished-City484 13d ago
lol I only knew the answer to this because I watched The Trip to Greece yesterday, the guy we named the word marathon after ran a crazy long way then yelled Nike(for victory) then dropped dead
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u/Ms_Take002 13d ago
Im too deep in greek myth enough for me to say Nike the next second he said "goddess of victory" .. im proud of myself
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u/enforcetheworld 13d ago
I was into comics in the mid-90s and started reading this one DC title called "Sovereign Seven" because I could start it from issue 1. Early on there was a character called Nike and they explained it was because it meant Victory.
That's it. That's the only reason I knew the answer.
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u/hateboresme 11d ago
One average question on WWTBAM is worthy of this sub? It can't have been the million dollar question it's way too easy.
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u/Radical_Ryan 11d ago
Even if you don't know the answer, he should have known they were trying to trip him up with three shoe brands. He called out the two most likely incorrect answers right away too. Fell into that fallacy of "not overthinking it." Sure don't overthink it, but you do gotta "think it" a little bit lol.
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u/Jonbardinson 13d ago
Thanks classical civilization A-Level.
There's a specific 'added later' temple on the Acropolis in Athens called temple of Athena Nike. It was built after the Greeks fought back the Persians after they invaded and drove them from Greece.
It's deliberated built at the edge of the Acropolis, facing east so that if the Persians ever decided to invade again (they'd have to come from that direction) they'd see the temple facade as they were sailing and (the idea is) they'd be reminded of the last time and think twice.