Talk:Come and take it/Archive 1
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Perkins Library???
I don't know what flag they have at Duke University but I'm pretty sure it isn't the authentic "Come And Take It" flag from the Battle of Gonzales.
From the Handbook of Texas Online [1]
"Many groups designed and flew flags during the Texas Revolution.qv Other sporadic, short-lived revolutionary movements also produced flags. With the exception of the flag of the New Orleans Greysqv and some of the flags flown at the battle of San Jacinto,qv however, none of these flags still exist." (my emphasis)Breendix (talk) 22:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
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is the identity of the molon labe slogan a parallelism, or was the Texan slogan a conscious translation of the Greek? dab (𒁳) 10:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Laconic means Spartan. That is clearly what McIntosh had in mind. 96.254.154.47 (talk) 18:16, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
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Show some evidence
I would like to know who was a witness, or where is a photo, or where is a news article, or who was the person who made the below noted flag, which is described in the article:
"The first-known modified version, from the 1980s, replaces the cannon with an M16A2 assault rifle and was displayed at a Bill of Rights rally in Arizona"
Thank you. David Treibs
I know of no evidence that Leonidas ever said such a thing. I can't find it in my Herodotus or Plutarch. Richard Tupper — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.89.105 (talk) 02:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Proposed merge of Molon labe with Come and take it
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Consensus is clearly against the merge idea. Splitting non-Greek-related uses was instead often suggested. (non-admin closure) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 19:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
The articles overlap significantly in scope and are essentially about the same phrase, just in different languages. HappyWithWhatYouHaveToBeHappyWith (talk) 22:27, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- SupportI agree that the two articles should be merged, but I would suggest merging to Molon labe instead; I suspect it is the more iconic usage, it is certainly the original, and the Fort Morris episode, at least, was explicitly invoking the Spartan myth – McIntosh specifically describes "come and take it" as a "laconic reply". (I note that both episodes discussed in this article are already mentioned at molon labe). Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 09:20, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- I wasn't actually sure which way to merge these, so I tried to leave it ambiguous in the tags. I'd support merging that way too. -- HappyWithWhatYouHaveToBeHappyWith (talk) 21:37, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- I tend to agree with Caecilius in the Garden. This article is mostly about one episode, and the phrase is mostly derived from the use of the Greek original, although I'm sure many of the users are unaware of that, or may have come upon it by chance. Still, the episode is already part of molon labe and I see no difficulty in merging any additional material from this article there. P Aculeius (talk) 12:51, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose - Come and take it has a life of its own, and there is sufficient content there to justify its own article. --evrik (talk) 21:25, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
- Reverse merge Merge the obscure English phrase into the famous one from Herodotus. Dimadick (talk) 06:24, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose. The two articles have different content (and chronology), and it is likely that different readers could search separately for each one. 78.18.231.44 (talk) 15:00, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose - Come and take it is so strongly identified with Battle of Gonzales that, historically speaking, has become the official name of the re-enactment of the 1835 battle itself. And then there is the American Revolutionary War tie-in. As mentioned above, it has a life of its own. It would be a disservice to both articles to merge it with Molon labe. — Maile (talk) 23:25, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose - from what the ones opposed to the merger have written, I think their content is too different. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:32, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose - Molon labe (come and take [them]) has a significantly different semantic meaning from Come and take it, with the former being similar to From my cold, dead hands and the latter to dilly dilly, come and be killed.--Auric talk 01:01, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
*Oppose - They are from entirely different eras. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:49, 14 June 2022 (UTC) Whoops, I already stated my position. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:00, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose - BUT remove most of the Come-take-it content from "Molon labe" (a third of the article content is about American history, that's way to too much for an article about a Greek saying!); and vice-versa remove the Molon-labe mention from Come and take it's introduction, work it into another part of the article, e.g. "Adapted uses". That way, the two articles are no longer redundant - as they are now. --Enyavar (talk) 10:40, 8 July 2022 (UTC)