raise your hand if you can’t stop saying “nice” to everything
#LATIN IS NOT A DEAD LANGUAGE#YOU KNOW WHAT A REAL DEAD LANGUAGE LOOKS LIKE?#ELAMITE#YOU EVER HEARD OF ELAMITE?#NO#YOU KNOW WHY?#BECAUSE NO ONE CAN READ OR WRITE IT NO ONE CAN SPEAK IT KNOW ONE KNOWS IT#ELAMITE HAS NO DESCENDANT LANGUAGES NO DERIVATIVES NO MODERN EQUIVALENTS#ITS ENTIRE LANGUAGE BRANCH IS EXTINCT#YOU KNOW WHY LATIN ISN’T DEAD#THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE PEOPLE WHO CAN READ AND WRITE LATIN RIGHT NOW THAN THERE WERE DURING THE ROMAN EMPIRE#THERE ARE 5 ROMANCE LANGUAGES WHICH ALL DERIVE FROM LATIN#ITALIAN IS CLOSER TO LATIN THAN MODERN ENGLISH IS TO OLD ENGLISH#ENGLISH TAKES LIKE 60% OF ITS WORD STRUCTURE FROM LATIN#AND ENGLISH HAS OVER A MILLION FUCKING WORDS IN IT#THERE IS MORE LATIN IN THE WORLD TODAY THAN AT ANY POINT IN HUMAN HISTORY#LATIN ISN’T DEAD#LATIN TRANSCENDED DEATH AND BECAME A LANGUAGE GOD
AND CAN I JUST ADD TO MY RANT FROM EARLIER THAT LATIN IS LITERALLY THE BASIS OF OUR ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
MODERN MEDICINE WOULD NOT TRANSLATE ACROSS BORDERS IF IT DIDN’T USE LATIN AS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE BASIS FOR ALL OF ITS TERMINOLOGY. ALL OF BIOLOGY TAKES ITS NOMENCLATURE FROM LATIN.
BECAUSE IT’S NOT A DEAD LANGUAGE. IT’S A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. THE MODERN WORLD COULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT LATIN.
LATIN HAS BECOME SO DEEPLY ROOTED TO ALL ACADEMIA AND SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE THAT WE HAVE MADE IT *IMPOSSIBLE* FOR LATIN TO DIE BARRING THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE ITSELF.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT. WE WILL LEAVE SIGNS OF OUR EXISTENCE ON THIS WORLD AFTER WE DIE. SOME ALIEN ARCHAEOLOGIST IS GOING TO FIND EVIDENCE OF OUR CIVILIZATION ONE DAY. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO FIND?
LATIN.
LATIN WILL OUTLIVE OUR SPECIES.
this cast is the best
You want to hit play. You really really want to hit play.
I love Harrison Ford sitting over there motionless, thinking “Oh my god now I’m working with the nerds.”
the world of thedas
f a s h i o n
I’ll take one outfit from each please, and thank you.
qnq:
This has gone through a whole lot of changes since I originally posted, so I wanted to throw the new version up~
decided to end an incredibly terrible day with something positive, like… #squadgoals
@owlickzMe: Why the fuck you dyin’
Me: Why you always dyin’
Me: Mmmm oh my god
Me: Stop fucking dying
Come away, o human child, to the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Song of the Sea (2014)
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