Talk:Corydon (character)

Correcting the use of his name

I corrected the use of Corydon's name in the title of Serusier's painting, and for some reason, user KylieTastic took it upon themselves to revert it. I'll spell out the reasons why I changed it, and then I will change it back. If KylieTastic (or anyone else) is intent on reverting again, they need to first engage in discussion here; that's the point of "talk" pages. Now then: "Corydon" is a proper noun. It was used thus by Virgil, by Siculus, by Edmund Spenser -- indeed, by every writer who has employed the word. Paul Serusier's painting is titled "Le Berger Corydon". For some reason, some editor here has translated that into English as "The Corydon shepherd". This is completely nonsensical. The literal translation of the title is "The Shepherd Corydon". That is idiomatically awkward, since in English it is more common to have the proper noun followed by the descriptor or disambiguator noun. Examples of this include "Bartleby the Scrivener", "Mack the Knife", "John the Baptist", "Conan the Barbarian", and so on. Exceptions to this are usually found within a larger phrase of prose, not a work's title, and the descriptor is typically followed by a comma, as with "...the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt" or "...the albino, Edgar Winter". No such convention is used by Serusier for his title. Also, "The Corydon shepherd" reads in English as if "Corydon" is an adjective being used to describe a shepherd, which defies logic since "Corydon" is his name, not a characteristic he has. Finally, the editor who reverted my edit, rendered the title as "The Corydon shepherd", which doesn't even follow titling conventions wherein every noun is capitalized. Consequently, the correct rendering of the title would be "Corydon the Shepherd". And so I shall correct it to, once again. Bricology (talk) 09:09, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

File:MuMA - Sérusier - Le Berger Corydon.JPG

• Hi Bricology, if you had looked at the page after either of your edits you would have seen you broke the image (as per added here) - hence my edit summary. Filenames are case sensitive on Wikipedia. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:28, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
• It looks Bricology broke the image with his original edit and KylieTastic reverted that edit because of that. Transcendence (talk) 19:28, 6 August 2017 (UTC)