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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.

Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Damn wokeness is ruining English. They/them just sounds unnatural for referring to a singular person. It’s for plural use only. A person can’t use their own preference whenever they want! A leftist will just act like they can just make up grammar and syntax at their leisure!

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You used singular they 4 times

fuckin lmao

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Oh my god were you being satiric?

This could have been word for word something some bigoted people I know would say, you gotta be unsubtle lest people think you are serious

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