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What year is it? (ani.social)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No they wouldn’t. They would say something similar BUT IN OLDE WORLDY EGYPTIAN.

[–] roguetrick 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

59 BC is actually pretty close to coptic I'd bet for spoken language (though officially it wouldn't be called coptic with consistent Greek script until the third century). At least in the sense that vulgar Latin was close to Italian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah but Mrmule was talking at us in English, see?