Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIf English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1550arrow-down117
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minus-squareTexasDrunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 months agoWow, I don’t know more than a handful of Latin words and I only speak Drunk Hillbilly fluently and I could still get most of that.
minus-squareHugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months agoIt’s almost as though one third of your native language is Latin
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoit also helps that it’s a super familiar text that everyone has seen a million times in many different forms so it’s easy to “guess” what words mean since you know what it’s supposed to say
Wow, I don’t know more than a handful of Latin words and I only speak Drunk Hillbilly fluently and I could still get most of that.
It’s almost as though one third of your native language is Latin
it also helps that it’s a super familiar text that everyone has seen a million times in many different forms so it’s easy to “guess” what words mean since you know what it’s supposed to say