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Re:Three Common Misconceptions About China by realusername on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:08AM (#17416512)
> Is this unusual, though? Fairly certain most romance language speakers can understand at least some latin if they put their minds to it.

Yes it works for basic texts, you can understand some words here and there.

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Re:Three Common Misconceptions About China by 394549 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:22AM (#17417065)
> Yes it works for basic texts, you can understand some words here and there.

Even as an English speaker, which is not a romance language, I can understand quite a few Latin words here and there, due to the fact that something like 50% of English vocabulary was borrowed from Latin or other romance languages.

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