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Edgelord redpilled MAGA Qanon sigma / alpha macho dudebros using all-caps Latin and turning all the u's into v's because the Roman Empire was the coolest

You white trash dipshits ARE aware that everyone with a basic education during that time spoke Greek for like...every fucking thing?

From Hadrian's Wall to the borders of Egypt, Greek was the language of art, commerce, philosophy. The military and Roman government used Latin, because that was the language of the people and they were Latins. The common people spoke Latin, and native Romans knew Latin. But anyone important empire-wide spoke Greek, and everything was in Greek first, before they translated it into Latin. ...Probably by just borrowing the Greek word and adapting it.

And this wasn't even a thing that only started after they conquered Greece. The Greeks had colonies in Italy back before Rome even existed, and Greek had ALREADY influenced Latin language and religion and law in such profound ways, historians now have a hard time even figuring out what the Latins were doing natively before then!

"THEN WHY ARE THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES ALL BASED ON LATIN??"

Because illiterate colonists / semiliterate soldiers who were settled in conquered areas spoke Latin. Speaking Latin became a status symbol in these areas. So they learned it, it immediately became a pidgin version, and morphed into new languages over subsequent years.

Thinking Latin is badass is like thinking Anglo-Saxon was badass. If the Latins were so hardcore, why were they all using Greek for business? Why did the language of Beowulf get so warped by French that your ass can't even understand it now?

Latin only got cool after Rome fell and assholes / the Church started using it to mythologize a lost golden age. If you lived in Ancient Rome, you would occasionally have issues if you didn't know Latin. But if you didn't know Greek, you were fucked.

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MJ.Majcha

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GUYS GARAK IS TRAPPED IN CORN FUCK I CANT GET HIM OUT

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All the gold for Laika.

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You fucks would defend the fucking gestapo as fellow humans before you engage in any direct action against people being black bagged and put into concentration camps

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He's not just a example of a bad politician, he's the worst human being in existence; everything he touches dies.

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Rapists do not make things safe. Men who reflexively lie and deny the truth do not makes things safe.

Pretty sure the rapist birther wants carnage.

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dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

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UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

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drawing people i see in the city (62/?)

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In the club

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My parents will never fully understand but I want salt in ways that would shut down my organ function

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if you tag me in a chain post and i don't do it it's not because i hate you it's because i am very lazy. i love you thank you for tagging me.

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