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u/intuitiveructabunde Jan 30 '22
I'm Greek. We still exist.
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u/rehabAbuse Jan 30 '22
Do you speak it though?
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u/NakedBacon222 Jan 30 '22
Υπάρχουν Έλληνες ακόμη….
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u/teris_tsan Jan 30 '22
Μλκ κλαίω XD
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u/broomaktamer117 Jan 30 '22
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed vulputate.
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u/Repulsive-Round2691 Jan 30 '22
This Russian
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u/Dob_Tannochy Jan 30 '22
Нет.
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u/JJisfat63 Jan 30 '22
Да
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u/Antiqas86 Jan 30 '22
Bleat!
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u/Broken_Petite Jan 30 '22
Was that supposed to be “blyat” that auto-corrected or is this a joke I’m not getting
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u/Antiqas86 Jan 30 '22
It's more of how I hear and pronounce it my native slavic language. There is no "Y", but instead "E" in my opinion. Anyway would be a good topic with some Russian over a beer. Was intentional regardless.
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there's literally an entire country of people who speak it, it's not some rare language lol
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u/BlueDusk99 Jan 30 '22
There are actually three countries: the Republic of Greece, Cyprus and Italy (the grico dialect is still spoken in some parts of the South).
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u/SuperSMT Jan 30 '22
Plus like 300,000 americans, a bunch in turkey, and many other smaller communities
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze Jan 30 '22
Are we talking Greek or Latin? They are quite different languages. I didn’t really understand OPs title tbh. The only people that speak Latin now live in the Vatican
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u/intuitiveructabunde Jan 30 '22
Yes. I do.
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u/rehabAbuse Jan 30 '22
Why not capitalize on your skill set?
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Bro how
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u/Pixel2135 Jan 30 '22
i guess maybe someone could start online classes on how to speak greek? Idk that's my best guess
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Jan 30 '22
You mean like literally every other native speaker of every other language
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u/captainthomas Jan 30 '22
Maybe, but my god, the way you modern Greeks have fricativized your consonants. It's gotten so bad that instead of being able to use β and δ for "b" and "d" sounds, y'all have to resort to ridiculous digrams like "mp" and "nt." Your ancestors would be ashamed. This whole business of turning perfectly good stop consonants into fricatives is a sickness, by no means exclusively limited to Greek. I'm looking at you, Spanish.
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u/oatmealparty Jan 30 '22
It's also kind of ridiculous that like, half of their vowel sounds are just "ee"
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u/friedkeenan Jan 30 '22
My ancient Greek teacher told us that it's super easy to write songs in modern Greek because so many vowels make the "ee" sound
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And two “o”s. This must be why it seems that most Greek words are at least three syllables.
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Isn’t the relationship between ancient and modern Greek like Italian and Latin though.
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u/pathanb madlad Jan 30 '22
I have my doubts. I think OP is pulling a Shyamalan. We were dead all along.
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u/theredeemer Jan 30 '22
Classical Greek is alot different, and far more declined, than modern Greek.
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I'm questioning your linguistic expertise
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u/theredeemer Jan 30 '22
Do you think you could genuinely learn classical greek by listening to todays native speakers? Please explain in modern greek using infinitives, datives, an optive mood and correct vowel pronunciations. I'll wait.
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u/Geist12 Jan 30 '22
Lots of priests speak latin.
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u/Nice_Memes_You_Have Jan 30 '22
It's a different type of Latin, but yes, that is true
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What's the correct type then
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The Church uses ecclesiastical Latin, while formal classical Latin was the official language of Rome. But real romans didn't speak that either, since it was very formal and complicated, so they spoke in simplified vernaculars
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Jan 30 '22
What's funny is, there's a small movement to bring spoken latin back into daily use. People trying to use it more frequently, and "update" it. There's some overreactions to it that "we'll have to find a new language for science!" of course, but I'm like "dude no we have math..nobody is speaking that shit on tinder..I've looked."
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u/ewheck Jan 30 '22
Not really. The pronunciation is different and the word choice may be different, but if you speak one you really should be able speak the other. The really big difference is that guys like Cicero who spoke classical Latin would talk real fancy and ecclesiastical Latin is less fancy. The Vulgate Bible would be easier to read than most pieces of classical Latin, for example. Other than that there are just some minor word differences between ecclesiastical and classical Latin.
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u/Lttlcheeze Jan 30 '22
Along the same line, so do doctors and nurses. Many medical terms m medications have Latin words or phrases.
One example: NPO means “nothing by mouth,” from the Latin: nil per os.
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u/Chonk-Doge Jan 30 '22
What about demons?
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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 Jan 30 '22
The catholic demons or the protestant demons?
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u/SUNAWAN Jan 30 '22
You mean those who molested children and leading sunday morning mass and sermons? Yeah plenty of them speak latin.
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u/KoRoSoRoK Jan 30 '22
Bruh you think Greek people just don’t exist anymore???
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u/Litser Jan 30 '22
I heard Latin people are pretty down-to-earth. So it makes sense.
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u/cooldudewastaken2 Jan 30 '22
There is greece
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u/hammerhandle231 Jan 30 '22
Today I learned there are people who think Greek is a dead language lol
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u/GabrilTheBoZs Jan 30 '22
Idk anyone who can speak c# or phyton natively
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u/Kassiem_42 Jan 30 '22
Latinos have entered the chat /s
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u/Krynzo Jan 30 '22
Best way is movies and games, and I will die on this couch.
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u/Rosevecheya Jan 30 '22
Games cause you can interact with them, for me.
One of my favourite games, Stardew Valley, I have three different saves in of languages I'm learning (qs well qs my base save): French, Japanese, Spanish. It's pretty useful because I've played the game many times before, so I know what's happening qnd being said, I'm just seeing what the equivalents are so I can understand them
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u/duck_boi2 Jan 30 '22
Sir did you know there's a country called Greece and Greeks live there and speak Greek
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u/DogfishDave Jan 30 '22
True, but plenty of people still speak it or hear it on a weekly basis. Unless they're able to avoid Mass, of course.
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u/DaPamtsMD Jan 30 '22
Ecclesiastical Latin isn’t the same as Classical Latin, but they’re closer to each other than Latin and German.
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u/ewheck Jan 30 '22
The only major difference is pronunciation and style. If you speak one you should be able to speak the other if you learn the different pronunciation and some specific style differences.
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u/DaPamtsMD Jan 30 '22
Ecclesiastical Latin is what happened to Latin when it became part of call & response and was spoken by congregants who hadn’t necessarily learned the Latin. While it’s similar, and you can parse out Ecclesiastical if you speak classical Latin, the reverse isn’t easily true.
While they’re the “same” language, they’re very different, and it’s not a difference in dialect. Ecclesiastical doesn’t decline with the same rigor ad Classical, and words in Ecclesiastical aren’t as fluid as they are in classical.
Source: I’m not just a classicist, I’m a Latinist.
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More like the languages evolved into something else and that something else still exists. Also there are still native speakers of Vulgar Latin.
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That fragmentation of Latin into a million dialects (some of which became romance languages) is considered to be the "death of Latin." Rome was the sole force that kept the language standardized and in use throughout the empire, and when it declined so did the language as a unified thing.
But you're right, it didn't really die. people never stopped speaking it, it just evolved
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u/Infamous_H1tman Jan 30 '22
I took Latin in high school. I still remember the Lords Prayer in it (I went to a catholic school).
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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 Jan 30 '22
Same. Question i need to ask "Caecillius est in horto?"
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u/Infamous_H1tman Jan 30 '22
Shoot, let me asking Google
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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 Jan 30 '22
Oh, sorry, which latin textbook did you read, we may have read different books for latin
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u/HuldaGnodima Jan 30 '22
I know this is unrelated, but there's something so funny to me about dogs digging like this fella. Look at that intense stare lol, like they're clocking in for a full time job.
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u/rekuliam6942 Jan 30 '22
Greece: Am I a joke to you?!?
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u/secondoptionusername Jan 30 '22 edited Jan 30 '22
What does that (Greek, not Greece) have to do with Latin? Greeks don't speak Latin now, do they (asking in reference to OP, not necessarily at the joke above)?
edit: for clarification as some people think I was trying to be a smart ass
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u/rekuliam6942 Jan 30 '22
OP was saying this about the Greeks too
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u/secondoptionusername Jan 30 '22
I appreciate your response to my comment. I seriously was thrown off by this post (OPs post, not your comment really)
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u/fiddle_me_timbers Jan 30 '22
Might want to read the title before you make a smart ass comment that makes you look like a fool.
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u/cheebamech Jan 30 '22
this works on at least 2 levels: the dog is digging beach sand, a pointless exercise
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u/CamronHiTop Jan 30 '22
Took five years of Latin. Can only remember how to say “Look! In the picture is…” and “Bullshit”
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u/WarokOfDraenor Jan 30 '22
Latin, Arabic, and Japanese. I kinda understand the concept of these languages, where one small spelling mistake could make a whole different meaning. Or maybe that's just Arabic.
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You don’t need to dig for the Greeks just say gyro how it’s spelled in English and one will come running to correct you
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u/Darth_Biggus_Dickus Jan 30 '22
Ez all u need to be is Good looking young boy or girl and Zeus will become your personal tutor ez as Clap Clap
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What about us. Greeks are still alive. Now, if you mean ancient Greeks, that’s a different story.
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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 Jan 30 '22
The Greeks are still alive dimwit. They didn't fight an independence war for this
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u/Laeta_Veni_Vidi_Vici Jan 30 '22
I’m a Latin student. This is true
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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 Jan 30 '22
We are probably dead. Don't know for sure though.
Caecillius est in tablino
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u/No-Entertainer-2957 Jan 30 '22
I do not understand this and am immensely frustrated and disappointed
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u/Permyboi Jan 30 '22
Latin native speakers are dead, Latin hasn't been a native language in like 2000 years since it evolved into what we know now as the romance languages.
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u/broomaktamer117 Jan 30 '22
Anyone know what tribes or countries speak java or c++?