Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIf English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1555arrow-down116
arrow-up1539arrow-down1imageIf English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareTexasDrunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 months agoWow, I don’t know more than a handful of Latin words and I only speak Drunk Hillbilly fluently and I could still get most of that.
minus-squareHugh_Jeggs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months agoIt’s almost as though one third of your native language is Latin
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoit also helps that it’s a super familiar text that everyone has seen a million times in many different forms so it’s easy to “guess” what words mean since you know what it’s supposed to say
Wow, I don’t know more than a handful of Latin words and I only speak Drunk Hillbilly fluently and I could still get most of that.
It’s almost as though one third of your native language is Latin
it also helps that it’s a super familiar text that everyone has seen a million times in many different forms so it’s easy to “guess” what words mean since you know what it’s supposed to say