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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by mayo_cider@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Teaching latin to redditors was one of the worst mistakes the west has done

Only superseded by telling them that they are clever for that (and all the genocide)

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[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago

Post hoc? How about you post hog

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago
[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

(I have been waiting literal years for the right time to do a 'post hog ergo propter hog' joke)

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

I heard they graduated cum laude

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

that's latin and it means "with cum"

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago
[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

they were a volcel and retained everything throughout their studies

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

magnum cum louder

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My grandfather was fond of remarking with a limerick any time latin came up, because he was old as dirt and had to learn it in school:

Latin is a dead language,

As dead as dead can be,

It killed the ancient Romans,

And now it's killing me.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

Chuds have been ruining Latin for well over a hundred years. British linguists back in the day had to due some revisionist stuff since they wanted to claim that English had its roots in only 'noble' and fancy languages like Latin, instead of being a bastardized offshoot of German with some French and Latin smattering it.

Anyway, let's stop fawning over Latin. It's time to channel our inner caveman and start learning the Proto Indo-European they toss around in Far Cry: Primal.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

The chuds promised we would be speaking arabic in five years

Inshallah

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Everyone should learn Latin at school or you don't know nuthin.

But this is just stock phrases. This person probably can't decline the five declensions.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

the latin isn't the problem, it's the people using it (as you can see from this thread, i'm well versed in latin)

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Redditers should stay dead

[-] boboblaw@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

This person probably can't decline the five declensions.

The five declension? I'd prefer not to.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 5 months ago
[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

sorry that's a rectum ergo prostate fallacy

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 months ago

Teaching logical fallacies to redditors was one of the worst mistakes. They think it is just the magic "win argument" words, and fail to understand that logical fallacies are supposed to be used to examine your own arguments, not as a "gotcha" against your opponent.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

im surprised they didnt work a ‘causus belli’ in there. Reddit clowns are V V fond of that one.

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Latin was the only 2nd language I learned before universityamerikkka

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

I was lucky and had to study two colonizer languages before going to university so i was set with linguistic studies in university

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago
[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago
[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

the most valid use of latin

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