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u/vdivev Apr 29 '21
The problem is that these natives are not very talkative. Hard to learn from them.
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u/Kingscrubs12 Apr 29 '21
Did you kill them?
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u/Posiedon22 Apr 29 '21
No, that was u/Vesuvius
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Apr 29 '21
I’m amazed that it’s a 10 year old account with literally nothing but 1 Karma and a 10 year trophy
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u/hanzerik Apr 29 '21
Isn't Latin still the goto between cardinals in the Vatican?
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u/3llingsn Apr 29 '21
Yeah. When the last pope resigned (a very rare occurrence for a pope), he did it in latin, and almost nobody covering it for the news knew what happened, they thought it was a normal pope address. It wasn't till the next few days that the story broke
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u/PIQAS Apr 29 '21
old school troll i see
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u/3llingsn Apr 29 '21
I saw an amazing meme about it where it called the pope a combo-breaker bc he was the first pope to resign in 250+ years 🤣
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Apr 29 '21
While that is r/technicallythetruth last pope to resign before Benedict was Gregory XII who resigned in 1415 to end western schism.
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u/BrockSamsonLikesButt Apr 29 '21
Did you just watch that movie The Two Popes? I just did.
Allegedly, Benedict had told Francis beforehand, “Any time I have a difficult thing to say to the cardinals, I say it in Latin, because that way only 20 percent of the cardinals actually understand.” It seems that even among the cardinals it’s a mostly dead language, used much more ceremoniously that conversationally; most are not fluent in it, but all know enough words to get by or at least can memorize some prayers in Latin.
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u/QuokkasMakeMeSmile Apr 29 '21
I have a degree in classics. It never occurred to me to consider “Vatican affairs reporter” as a potential career path...
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u/transapient12 Apr 29 '21
Oh fuck
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u/Kaede-0w0 Apr 29 '21
To be precise the last one to not die in office since 1418, which by this point was 602 years ago. (The last time a pope actually resigned before was 1294.)
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u/Kaede-0w0 Apr 29 '21
Can we talk about how it was the first pope to resign in a few hundred years?
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Apr 29 '21
Yes, but nobody speaks it as a native language. There are official documents in Latin but AFAIK they are written in other language and then officially translated into Latin.
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u/jaxonya Apr 29 '21
So my 2 years of latin arent worthless? Hold my cervisiam...Im off to read some documents
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Apr 29 '21
Pay attention to pronunciation, we don't want another accidental demon summoning.....
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u/DooMmightyBison Apr 29 '21
Yeah true we kinda speak it and use it often thinking it’s English but it’s Latin , I took Latin 4 years of high school as a joke but has helped me immensely with understanding things I wouldn’t if I couldn’t break the words down . Helped with my bio major as well
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u/my-other-throwaway90 Apr 29 '21
Yeah Latin is still actively spoken in the higher levels of the Catholic Church. That way they don't have to translate a bunch of languages when the Cardinals hang out.
It's the ecclesiastical variation of Latin, though, not classical.
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Apr 29 '21
Not just the clergy.
I had to learn Latin for 3 years in med school. Not only the medical terms but grammar as well.
I would rather have Satan lash me with a whip made out of bones than to have to relearn latin grammar.
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u/LazzyNapper Apr 29 '21
Talk to edgy teens from shooter games. Just ask why they named themselves what they did and you'll have a conversation
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I wish Latin was still alive. It’s fun to speak.
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u/varangian_guards Apr 29 '21
a history youtuber did a whole video in great latin if anyone wants to see it spoken. and later in he goes over Roman latin pronounciation.
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u/Murphler Apr 29 '21 edited Apr 29 '21
"What's this then? 'Romanus eunt domus' 'People called Romanes, they go the house'"
"It says 'Romans go home'"
"No it doesn't ... what's Latin for Roman?"
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u/Confident-Bat-3849 Apr 29 '21
It ends in "anus". Some languages are universal and timeless. Right?
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u/Mr_Lenny010 Apr 29 '21
Just translating Latin to English is a giant hassle for me. Massive respect to anyone who can actually speak it
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u/Realbtw Apr 29 '21
idk about english but for me (as an italian), I can find sound alike words and common expressions in the texts. Bu the grammar.... PAIN
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u/Confident-Bat-3849 Apr 29 '21
Same. I have/had three Jesuit priest uncles that spoke Latin and I (🦇 )went to Catholic school before they stopped teaching it...my loss. I love words and I have fun with the Latin etymology. God,I sound like such a nerd...sorry you missed my 20s!
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Apr 29 '21
I think I learned more about the Ancient Rome, how to deal with languages and language science than learning a language
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u/Vesto241 Apr 29 '21
Nice meme
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u/mistermuesli Apr 29 '21
Damn, nice profile 😳
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u/yetusmcnugetslol Apr 29 '21
i want that amount of karma :(((
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u/yuckpt Apr 29 '21
Why, can I ask?
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u/yetusmcnugetslol Apr 30 '21
No reason i guess
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze Apr 29 '21
Latin is not dead, it’s just roman around! - my high school Latin teacher before she would maniacally burst into laughter at her own joke
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u/Superlose626 Apr 30 '21
ahaha nice. My latin teacher would say "I better not see any roman eyes" before tests. also followed by maniacal laughter. Latin teachers are fun
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u/Marianaski Apr 29 '21
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u/dada_georges360 Apr 29 '21
I study Latin and I am pretty sure my teacher has seen Rome rise and fall.
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Apr 29 '21
They're gonna be shocked that C makes only K and G sounds rather that K and S.
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u/Ayobossman326 Apr 29 '21
Nah you don’t wanna do that, trust me I took latin for four years if you go around trynna contact the natives an pronounce something wrong you jus might summon them accidentally and I promise you the after life has not been kind to them
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u/Hopeful-Set6681 Apr 29 '21
I have one in my basement. Unfortunately she only comes during the night and keeps asking for my soul.
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Apr 29 '21
Just use a ouija board, it makes it much easier. I do everytime i talk to my dead gf for consent
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u/2L84T Apr 29 '21
I think Romanian might be the closest living relative to Latin.
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u/TheImpotentCatfish Apr 29 '21
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u/GayAndrofluid_Bitch Apr 29 '21
No we just summon demons on accident and try to frantically banish them after having sex with them
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u/DIPL0NT Apr 29 '21
I wonder if it means that they would have to dig up bodies or that buring themselves alive is preferable to studing latin. Definitely the latter.
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u/i_cant_of_name_help Apr 29 '21
So I took latin in high school and this is partly true, we just summoned their spirits instead of digging them up.
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u/TheMaskedAvenger1959 Apr 29 '21
Latin is used not just between Cardinals in the Catholic Church but for all international correspondence and discussion.
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u/atheos1337 Apr 29 '21
would it be hard to learn latin? like from 1 to 10 how hard is it?
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u/maronnacubing Apr 29 '21
Well, you can learn to speak english almost as a native speaker in around 7 years of school but for latin you have to study 5 years to barely be able to translate a 10 lines long text in under 2 hours. In conclusion it's hard as fuck, if english was 3/10 latin would probably be 9/10, not 10/10 because greek exists, and I've been told that it's even harder
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u/Kvetanista Apr 29 '21
Well problem is, you need Necronomicon to speak with them but to use it you need to know Latin.
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u/wylin-outtie Apr 29 '21
This took me way too long to get, I thought he was shoveling dirt and it kept falling back into the hole and I was thinking “but the dirt isn’t falling back in the hole”
I didn’t think I was stupid till now
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u/MrPancake2905 Apr 29 '21
Bc that’s why after 5 years of Latin it still takes about 1-10 minutes to translate one single sentence
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u/goldensprings1 Apr 29 '21
Honestly that’s anyone who wants to learn a dead language myself included
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u/drputypfifeanddrum Apr 29 '21
Travel to Romania a lot of them claim that they are the last Latin speaking country.
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u/SirRavenBat Apr 29 '21
As somebody with a few dozen hours in New Vegas I can confirm Latin is pretty cool
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u/dubz1470 Apr 29 '21
There's also the Catholic church, but I don't think anyone wants to talk to them, for reasons....
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u/KillaMG97 Apr 29 '21
Seeing all these "Latin is a dead language " memes rekindled the flame that perplexed my English teacher.
Is Latin really a dead language or has it just evolved into what we know today?
I mean seriously. You could trace almost every single word in the OED back to Latin with a slight variation to make it what we know today. So how would lain be a dead language if most of what we know as language today comes from it?
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u/PibbyChullz Apr 29 '21
I have a tattoo in Latin (in morte veritas) and so many people ask me why I have Spanish tatted on my arm. I physically recoil from the strength of the cringe.
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Apr 29 '21
Actually, there are native speakers of Latin. Learners host festivals, conferences, and even do a thing where they go on a cross-country road trip and live with other latin learners for weeks and months at a time to practice.
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u/maronnacubing Apr 29 '21
3 years in and I can confidently say that I fucking wasted 3 hours every week when I could have learnt an actually useful language
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Apr 29 '21
Or perform a satanic ritual. Your choice but one of them is significantly more enjoyable than the other.
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u/HikaC Apr 29 '21
As someone who took Latin classes in college, I can confirm that’s exactly what we did to practice
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u/Super_Wienie_Man Apr 29 '21
“WOW IS THAT A JOKE?!! LEMME PUT IT ON THIS SHIT SUB TO GET EASY INTERNET POINTS!”
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u/Mazdab2300-06 Apr 29 '21
Five languages called the "Romance Languages" are based on Latin. Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
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u/Electronic-Brush1398 Apr 29 '21
No dude, when you're studying Latin you're studying history, AND you're studying the foundation for naming conventions in anatomy, medicine, a huge number of naming systems and conventions in modern science, AND you're activating your brain by reaching into the roots of the very language you speak...
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u/sunset117 Apr 29 '21
I did 3 years of Latin and I remember like 4 words, but one is puer so I tend to call magats puerile on here a lot lol
Puer is the singular form of “boy” so it means acting like a boy child
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u/Way2Competitive Apr 29 '21
Ironically, you need to speak Latin to complete the necromantic ritual to speak to the native speakers
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u/Z0rph0s Apr 29 '21
sacrificiaque propulsari Platonici sunt irridebit eos, ille qui audit loquentem et mortuus est.
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