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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Explanation: In Classical Latin, you generally place the verb at the end of a sentence. Cicero was fond of making long, elaborate sentences filled with nested statements in his speeches, so he is somewhat notorious amongst Latin students for taking forever to get to the damn verb and make it clear what he’s actually talking about.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine a time where your orators of note speak in complex gibberish for reasons other than pure, unadulterated dementia...

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Fuck, maybe Roman civilization was a golden age...

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of learning German

German, as well as other germanic languages aside from English actually use verb second structure. True, that the main part sits at the end if there is an auxiliary verb. Example word for word translation would be: Tomorrow go I to school. Or Yesterday have I cake eaten. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2_word_order

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Something something German lecturer after two hours twelve verbs at the end finally understood the whole lecture.

[–] laserm@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago