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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:08 PM Original message |
Poll question: Instead of speaking plain English, Ancient Romans chose to speak Latin. What was their motive? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. Etruscan was too hard to pronounce. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. No one had invented Esperanto yet. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, and what's the deal with 'Latin' America, anyway? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. That's total bullshit. They spoke proper English with a British accent. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. English didn't exist yet |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Clearly they were ahead of their time. They were simply setting Monty Python up for endless jokes. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. to fool the Greeks |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. They tried pig latin first but then realised any 8 year old could figure out what they were saying. |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. So the audience |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. Sewing confucian |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. Et tu, Boojatta? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 10:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. sometimes I think Boojatta and RandomThoughts are the same person. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Nope, Random Thoughts is postings by Robert Eastwood. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
12. Just to piss you off |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. Quia Anglorum lingua non noscebatur apud Romanos. |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
16. They got their laughs by mimicking Elmer Fudd |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
17. In the words of generations of English schoolchildren... |
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