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REPOST r/DebateReligion is requiring all posts to be in Latin - reddit - kbin.social (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by verity_kindle to c/maliciouscompliance

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How do you properly conjugate "Reddit" in Latin? First, you need to know if the proper noun, "Reddit", is male or female and base the conjugation of the verbs in the sentence on its gender , just as in Spanish or French. Reddito? As in "Carthago Delenda Est"? At first, it seemed easy to just use "Reddito", since Carthage was a city and Reddit is a community of sorts. The I realized that Reddit is no longer a community, but a hostage situation. What gender to use, then? Surely the ancient Near Eastern peoples had camps where they held captives or hostages during negotiations. Hostage trading was big business for them. My father in law is a retired Latin teacher, maybe he can help me parse this out.

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[–] Cruxifux 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, they did a Behind the Bastards (I think?) that touched on that that I heard a while back. Just so transparent with it being about control of the word of God to dominate the masses.

I didn’t know they STRANGLED people though with that.

Coooool guuuuys….

[–] verity_kindle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not why the Mass was and is celebrated in Latin, the history is much more complicated than that, as it usually is when discussing languages and culture.

[–] Imotali 2 points 1 year ago

No, it really isn't. They entire point was control. They claimed it wasn't.... but then again Russia claimed it wasn't at war, the Nazis claimed they were "curing" Germany, etc etc.

You can't trust a first party claim of reasoning without looking at it critically.

Source: former Catholic.