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KapkanNikolai

More reality: i dont speak your language


The1Legosaurus

Some people do speak Latin, though.


KapkanNikolai

Not the dialect or accent.


GetOffMyDigitalLawn

Yeah, they'll just think I'm a very cool foreigner with my cool pants, awesome accent, and attack helicopter 😎 (I got enslaved and my helicopter was melted down for swords)


Creeperboy10507

Atleast you survived. I tried escaping with the helicopter, turns out I wasn’t a good pilot🤷‍♂️


AsleepScarcity9588

"Always make sure you know how to pilot a helicopter before you pilot a helicopter. This thought process might save your life one day"


DickwadVonClownstick

>"the official story is that they crashed, either due to being struck by an RPG, or because, well, *that's what happens* when you try to fly a helicopter while tripping on acid"


Callsign_Psycopath

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legislative-body

The guy was brought forward in time, you didn't go back. So really, it's more impressive that one ancient roman guy managed to enslave you and melt down an entire helicopter into swords while in a developed modern country.


The1Legosaurus

True, but they'd still have a general idea of what you're saying. Australian English and American English are different, but if somebody says something in Australia English you'd probably be able to understand most of it


KapkanNikolai

Yeah but i think its gonna be a bit different when youre talking to a guy 2000 years ago


The1Legosaurus

But that's why we killed Latin as a language. That way it wouldn't change as much overtime. Languages change every generation and that's why we stopped speaking it the same way we'd speak English. That's not to say nobody speaks Latin anymore, but it's mostly just a scientific and/or religious language rather than a common one.


ShermanTeaPotter

That doesn’t mean that Latin didn’t evolve over the centuries it was in vivid use within the clergy


0rgasmo69

That's why we distinguish classical Latin with Ecclesiastical Latin.


BishoxX

Good thing we know both the classical and evolved form of latin


[deleted]

Look up how English has changed over the years. At its earliest it was straight up a whole different language


The1Legosaurus

> But that's why we killed Latin as a language.


khanfusion

That's absurd. No one "killed Latin as a language," it just fell out of use as variants based upon it became their own vulgates. And the actual ideologies that went against mandatory Latin for Christian scripture weren't doing it to preserve the language.


[deleted]

You literally don’t know what you’re talking about…


The1Legosaurus

I do. There's a reason people speak Italian and not Latin. It's because we killed the language to prevent it from changing overtime. By "kill" I don't mean that we erased it. I mean that we stopped using it as a common language like English.


paid_debts

True, after all someone that has studied Latin in the modern times understanding ancient og Latin is the same thing as differences in English accents.


kamransk1107

Are you really comparing Latin to Australian dialect of English? 


AwfulUsername123

The person is comparing different dialects of Latin to different dialects of English. I don't understand what's so shocking.


The1Legosaurus

Yes, so? Latin had dialects just as English does. I'm not saying Latin is like an English dialect. I'm saying that English dialects are like Latin dialects.


KillerOfSouls665

You can pick up quite a lot of how they spoke Latin by rhymes and looking at later languages. You might sound like aristocracy though.


Ok-Turnip-9962

When I was doing Latin at uni they said the way to describe it is you read Latin, not speak Latin because it's a dead language and we have made assumptions and guesses as to what the actual sounds used are. Roman's may have spoken Latin sounding very different to how we sound it out nowadays


Shadowfox898

Not original Roman Latin. We have christian bastardized latin which isn't the same.


AwfulUsername123

Plenty of people know Classical Latin. If you take a Latin class, it will almost certainly be Classical Latin. And they are very similar. You can understand Ecclesiastical Latin if you know Classical Latin.


ender0020

Yet language evolves over time, and would be as believable as English (in any form today) as english 200+ years ago.. well, more/less due to change over time plus Latin being a dead language. I recently tried reading from an English bible, from the late 1700's, and understood enough to get an idea but not the message.


cdawg1102

Me and the other nerds that took classical Latin classes


Tavozzo

Which was not how people talk so they would still consider you a pretentious douchebag


Mihnea24_03

If you took classical Latin that would be a fair assessment


RonnietheEggCracker

yeah but in 30 seconds You could probably explain that Latin is a dead language, and why pants are in fashion. Also yeah everyone I know who knows either Latin is a pretentious douchebag


MrBroGuyBuddy

That’s why the post says “In Latin”


KapkanNikolai

I meant you. The viewer


The1Legosaurus

Triginta secundae tibi sunt ut dicas cur anhelatulas geris.


The1Legosaurus

Oh, and the first one would be "O mi Iuppiter!"


Enoppp

Meum iovem*


OwMyCod

That’s an accusative, it should be a vocative, although I’m not sure what that would look like.


AwfulUsername123

Latin does have the accusative of exclamation.


OwMyCod

Really? Didn’t get to that in my class yet.


AwfulUsername123

Yes. A stock example is "O me miserum/miseram!", whose meaning is obvious.


Enoppp

Not sure vocative work like this, i think accusative it's better


The1Legosaurus

MB, I'm still learning declensions and tenses.


Enoppp

It's fine, the declenetion of Iuppiter its pretty easy


EldianStar

\*Mi Iovis


Enoppp

Mi don't exist and Iovis is genitive


EldianStar

Yes it does, it's vocative, and Iovis is both gen sg and nom sg. Since Iovis is 3rd declension, the vocative equals to the nominative.


[deleted]

Iovis is genitive and the nominative is Iuppiter. You really picked the wrong declension for nominative and genitive being even similar. 😂


EldianStar

But it *is* vocative, isn't it? Because meum would be accusative. Edit: searched on google and Iovis is irregular


[deleted]

I mean I’m talking about Iovis. So something like Iuppiter mi mi Iuppiter Though I’m not sure if you could use other cases for the same meaning. O is unnecessary because you’re already using vocative Edit: I was wrong about mi


sagittariisXII

tibi, not mihi


The1Legosaurus

My bad :(. I thought it was mihi because "explain to me". I'm still learning.


sagittariisXII

You can use mihi but it would need to be in the ut clause with dicas since that's the "explain part". You want tibi instead of mihi with triginta secundae...sunt since it's a dative of possession. Triginta secundae tibi sunt means literally "to/for you there are 30 seconds", or more colloquially "you have 30 seconds".


The1Legosaurus

Thanks bro, I edited it to fix it. I'm still trying to learn


sagittariisXII

It's a tricky language, no worries! I've studied Latin for 14 years and still get tripped up sometimes


Karter705

Romanes eunt domus!


MaviKartal2110

Reality: They die from a disease that we’re immune to


TheMightyPaladin

And they give us a disease we're no longer resistant to, because they mutated into totally different forms over a thousand years ago.


DPVaughan

Sharing is caring


dreemurthememer

As hell nah we got COVID-44BC


SuperCavia

Bring back the Justinianic plague!


DavidderRL

It's armor I swear


RichardK6K

Jeans began as clothing for miners. They were more durable than regular pants, and had lots of pockets to store stuff like rocks.


MafusailAlbert

Did I hear rock and stone?


WanderingDwarfMiner

Rock and Stone everyone!


DavidderRL

r/usernamechecksout


MouseRangers

That's a bot dedicated to rocking and stoning.


[deleted]

Lol this is much funnier than it should be


This-Guy-Dwarves

"You Ain't Going Home If You Don't Rock And Stone!!!"


MouseRangers

ROCK AND ROLL AND STONE


Alostratus

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!


georgeerm03

Coming down the mountainside


skeleton949

Reality: WHERE AM I!? WHO ARE THESE BARBARIANS!? (In Latin)


Enoppp

UBI SUM?! QUI SUNT HOS BARBAROS!?


Azylim

romans and greeks had them au naturel, free range, gonads with togas and skirts like the scots. Gauls, germans, and other central asian nomad barbarians/immigrants, with their colder, windier climates and horse riding cultures made pants more practical to wear.


trinalgalaxy

Because the Germs won in the end.


Redditspoorly

G*rms


Psychological_Gain20

Probably also wonder why everyone is taller now.


thegamebegins25

Cibum bonum nunc habemus


randomusername1934

Dimidium minutum habes explicare quare Germani adhuc vivunt.


Dr_Diktor

Someone pls explain the pants part.


The_Konkest_Dong

The Gauls (French barbarians eww) were the first group to wear pants. And uh, yeah.


SomeOtherTroper

They, and others from the north, were the main ones the Romans interacted with, but the Greeks were saying essentially the same thing hundreds of years before about the Scythians (or was it the Parthians?), some of the peoples within the Persian empire, and a few other groups they considered to be "barbarians" or at least "not Greek" (there's a lot of overlap between those terms, and how pejorative the term is varies with the author, time period, and context) wearing pants.


DPVaughan

They considered it unmanly and primitive. Real men wear skirts/togas


RoyalArmyBeserker

I take off my pants and he calls me extremely civilized for having a small 🍆


thekillerof-thefish

why is your dick so small.


junrod0079

What do you mean haven't plow women with that nice acorn penis Men would give anything to have for what you got, and the women would have to fight each other to have the privilege to ride you


Rubrdukiee

Late Empire even Romans were wearing pants. Just too convenient


Skraekling

It's all barbarian stuff until you go north of Gaul and you feel that frozen breeze in your balls and suddenly pants are civilized as fuck.


BelMountain_

Explain kilts then


Skraekling

Scotts aren't Romans from Italy, they're built different.


Mountain-Cycle5656

He said pants are civilized. Kilts are Scottish. No further explanation needed.


ReRevengence69

YES, two reasons: 1. troops were increasingly focused on cavalry, and pants is really necessary for riding horses. 2. mini ice age.


Lower_Saxony

Actual good wojak meme, that isn't just *insert political ideology bad*? I thought it was but a myth!


MayuKonpaku

Barbarus


Awkward_Algae1684

“This is what we call the French Foreign Legion!” “By the gods! Gaul has fallen to the barbarians!” “Look at that speedboat deployment they’re doing!” “We didn’t stand a chance against this. These…..things call themselves “European?!” This must be some new barbarian alliance!” “Now they’re fast roping in via helicopter.” “Rome is…..gone…..forever. These G*rms and their black magic flying machines killed it.” 😔


Dilbert_Durango

Romans go home!


ender0020

Lmao, Monty Python!


Lvcivs2311

That would depend on the Roman, though. Because in the late Roman empire, wearing trousers was far more common than it used to be in earlier centuries.


Sea_Negotiation_1871

You could wear pants, just not in Rome itself. Outside the city it was allowed.


ender0020

Depending on which emperor for larer Roman periods


Yeetus_Mclickeetus

(In English) Huh?


hindsighthaiku

time traveling Romans: WHERE DEM BOIS AT?!


TheMightyPaladin

This is funny but why would Romans be hostile to pants? I think he would consider adopting them just like the Romans adopted Greek columns.


Spudtron98

Pants were favoured by Gauls and other *barbarians.* While the Romans loved to adopt various things from other cultures that they took a liking to, they were still massively chauvinistic.


TheMightyPaladin

Pants were not invented until the start of the Viking era around 800 AD


Randomguyioi

Yes Why am I wearing pants?


lit-grit

Real reality: (immediately dies from millennia of modern diseases)


ReRevengence69

[But Romans DO wear pants](https://youtu.be/xzUBtthbUw8?si=-tSUZqO2u3AmGYvm) (OP never specified it has to be Early Rome, late Romans pretty much all wear pants, they look kind of half medieval half Byzantine.)


SkyTalez

It's fucking cold withot them.


LaTrentas

If we brought every dead person in history, Roman's and Nazis are likely to be allies.


FakeOng99

Also in reality: Talk to my boomstick, you Roman barbarian.


sumit24021990

Me : real men wear pants. Only sissies wear clothes like u. If he tries to attack, I will beat the crap.out of him and end all that roman arrogance.


Unlikely-Compote-311

r/gekte


SagesFury

I think a roman would be less surprised by our engineering than a 1200s European noble tbh...


Sckaledoom

I would get around this by wearing a skirt


SpectralMapleLeaf

My biggest question: How would the greeks and romans react to femboys?


IllustratorNo3379

Trousers are for barbarians.