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[–] don@lemm.ee 121 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Took a second longer than necessary, then I groaned.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Cade to enlighten me? I'm still lost.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 17 points 11 months ago

Hailstorm, sir.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me too, thanks.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had more of a "Waka, Waka" response

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago

This time for Africa!

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I thought they seemed sketchy.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ce ne sont pas des Romains.

[–] captain_oni@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Ave, true to Caesar.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Oh hail no.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (19 children)

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

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Not too be confused with copyleft and wtfpl.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 11 months 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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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Ave, true to Caesar!

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