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Pro-Trump ad uses Latin to target Latino voters (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by taipan to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep. I studied Latin and the "legales" is modifying the two nouns.

The first actually refers to residents of Hispania, so any classical Latin speaking immigrants from Spain and Portugal should feel included.

The second refers to the Latins, who were assimilated into the Roman (Trojan if believe the Aeneid) population and no longer exist.

Stylistically, I would have gone with the enclitic "-que" over the conjunctive "et."

EDIT: They messed up the verb. Well, I'm guessing they thought they were using a verb. The "vota" is the nominative plural of votum, so it reads "Votes for Trump."

They're not bright enough to know that the English verb "elect" derives from the perfect passive participle of "eligo, eligere" - electus.

They should have gone with "Eligite Trump!" - "Choose/Elect Trump!"