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[–] don@lemm.ee 121 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Took a second longer than necessary, then I groaned.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't get it until I read your comment πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cade to enlighten me? I'm still lost.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had more of a "Waka, Waka" response

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

This time for Africa!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Somehow Caesar misheard "grando" as "ave", since they're of course speaking Latin and not English.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you look closely it turns out they're not real Romans at all, just drawings!

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought they seemed sketchy.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ce ne sont pas des Romains.

[–] captain_oni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People called Romanes they go the house?

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think he tried using a dictionary or translation tool, and failed to consider that "eunt" is the indicative form of "eō"/"īre" (to go) and not the imperative form. So he's stating that Romans go home (with extraordinarily poor grammar, mind you), when he probably means to tell Romans to go home ("Romani ite domum!")

Edit: Apparently this is a Life of Brian reference. I am a fool

[–] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's reasonable to assume that the characters are speaking their native language and it's being translated for our benefit, but it becomes weird when they use idioms or puns in English that don't exist in those languages.

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ave, true to Caesar.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Oh hail no.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's not wearing purple though.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only for ceremonies. Purple costs a snail snot ton of money.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not Caesar though.

He was wearing it all the time before he was assassinated as the senate had allowed him to do so. This was after the 5th triumph when they dumped a lot of other titles on him. The picture has the laurels in it, which is also typically just for ceremonies, so he should also be in a purple toga.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I've thought about the roman empire once today so far.

[–] EpsilonEridani@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Punctuation is everything. Didn't get it at first...

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is this a new thing that people include a CC anti AI license in their posts and comments? Would be pretty cool if it could be integrated in a smoother way as like a post property.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Yes, it's the new "I do not consent to Facebook using my data".

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Not too be confused with copyleft and wtfpl.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago

Here's a comment saying it's useless from a different thread linked by a parallel comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/9817207

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Ave, true to Caesar!

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