I went to school with a guy who thought he could just move to Rome to learn Latin. Even 13 year old me was like “I’m pretty sure they speak Italian in Rome”.
spoilers: He grew out of his Roman Empire worship days, did not go to Rome or the Vatican to learn Latin by age 16.
I feel like Romeaboos would be less taken with the language if they realized that the Italian accent didn’t just come out of nowhere. The vision they have in their heads is all movie-badass-voice Euromerican-accent Latin, but the reality is much funnier.
See, this guy wasn’t even a Romeaboo in the “return” way, he just played a lot of RTS games before learning proper history.
Not in a “Rome was cool because it was a based militant patriarchy” but rather “Wow, Ceasar built a double layered wall during a siege to trap the besieged and prevent reinforcements, that’s cool”
I went to school with a guy who thought he could just move to Rome to learn Latin. Even 13 year old me was like “I’m pretty sure they speak Italian in Rome”.
spoilers: He grew out of his Roman Empire worship days, did not go to Rome or the Vatican to learn Latin by age 16.
I feel like Romeaboos would be less taken with the language if they realized that the Italian accent didn’t just come out of nowhere. The vision they have in their heads is all movie-badass-voice Euromerican-accent Latin, but the reality is much funnier.
See, this guy wasn’t even a Romeaboo in the “return” way, he just played a lot of RTS games before learning proper history.
Not in a “Rome was cool because it was a based militant patriarchy” but rather “Wow, Ceasar built a double layered wall during a siege to trap the besieged and prevent reinforcements, that’s cool”
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