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Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022 by troelsSteegin on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:13AM (#32592150)
Vocab word of the day: "eucatastrophes": "a sudden turn of events in a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom.", via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe

I never would have connnected Miyazaki with Tolkien.

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Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022 by lupire on Thursday August 25, 2022 @08:53AM (#32593071)
It's Anastrophe, for the Haskell programmers. (But the literature nerds have already used that word for Yoda-grammar)
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Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022 by rwbaskette on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:39AM (#32593552)
εὖ : well/good κατα- : back/against στρέφω : I turn/twist

It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really Greek.

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Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022 by sh1mmer on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:49AM (#32593675)
You weren’t far off

> The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe

From the New Oxford Dictionary

> Catastrophe: mid 16th century (in the sense 'denouement'): from Latin catastropha, from Greek katastrophé 'overturning, sudden turn', from kata- 'down' + strophe 'turning' (from 'down strephein 'to turn').

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Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022 by sdenton4 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:31PM (#32597985)
It's Greek for deus ex machina!
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