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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:06PM (#26438773)
> which are hopefully sometimes improvements

The death of Latin is very upsetting.

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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by qiqing on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:02PM (#26439526)
Technically, there are more Latin speakers alive today than cumulatively during the Roman Empire. However, I think negligibly few are _native_ speakers.

Exponential population growth is weird.

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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by rajansaini on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:23PM (#26438996)
Why is that out of curiosity?
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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:05PM (#26440908)
Reading the English for Catullus 16 (pretty dirty) and feeling jealous that they could put it so succinctly in their own language. Also this TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shape....
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Re:A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Me... by pmlnr on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:27PM (#26439815)
It was the common language of the time.
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