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[–] [email protected] 121 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Took a second longer than necessary, then I groaned.

[–] pete_the_cat 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't get it until I read your comment πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

[–] emax_gomax 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Cade to enlighten me? I'm still lost.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Hailstorm, sir.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] emax_gomax 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Me too, thanks.

[–] lessthanluigi 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I had more of a "Waka, Waka" response

[–] samus12345 21 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

This time for Africa!

[–] samus12345 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Somehow Caesar misheard "grando" as "ave", since they're of course speaking Latin and not English.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you look closely it turns out they're not real Romans at all, just drawings!

[–] VindictiveJudge 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I thought they seemed sketchy.

[–] samus12345 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ce ne sont pas des Romains.

[–] captain_oni 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People called Romanes they go the house?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think he tried using a dictionary or translation tool, and failed to consider that "eunt" is the indicative form of "eō"/"īre" (to go) and not the imperative form. So he's stating that Romans go home (with extraordinarily poor grammar, mind you), when he probably means to tell Romans to go home ("Romani ite domum!")

Edit: Apparently this is a Life of Brian reference. I am a fool

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).

[–] samus12345 2 points 6 months ago

It's reasonable to assume that the characters are speaking their native language and it's being translated for our benefit, but it becomes weird when they use idioms or puns in English that don't exist in those languages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

perhaps... and hear me out... it's so that people can understand and enjoy the show?

u may love subtitles, but not everyone does

[–] LwL 5 points 6 months ago

More like because finding english speaking actors is a lot easier in an english speaking country, and also the writer likely doesn't speak every language that would be relevant. Plenty of countries don't get dubs of movies or series and people can still understand and enjoy them just fine. Though it probably increases appeal or there just wouldn't br dubs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't particularly love them, but subtitles are just part of daily life in any non-English speaking countries given the amount of English speaking media being produced, so most of the world are used to them.
I think quite a lot of English natives also use subtitles on English media because of sound mixing or sound system issues that make dialogues hard to hear.

Anyways, it's just a little jest, if you enjoy this trope, I am happy for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

it’s so that people can understand and enjoy the show

Subtitles?

u may love subtitles, but not everyone does

Ah, so it's not about understanding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

many people find it difficult to read subtitles fast enough, due to poor eyesight, dyslexia, poor education, developmental issues, the list goes on. its a little ableist to be so pretentious about your preference for subtitles.

for the record: i personally do not mind subtitles; i just know that there are people less advantaged than me. embrace choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh hell yes I'm all for subtitle supremacy, with everything that comes with it. Including final solution to the dyslexic question

[–] samus12345 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Those must be slow snail ass readers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ave, true to Caesar.

[–] normalexit 21 points 6 months ago

Oh hail no.

[–] VinnyDaCat 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's not wearing purple though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only for ceremonies. Purple costs a snail snot ton of money.

[–] VinnyDaCat 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not Caesar though.

He was wearing it all the time before he was assassinated as the senate had allowed him to do so. This was after the 5th triumph when they dumped a lot of other titles on him. The picture has the laurels in it, which is also typically just for ceremonies, so he should also be in a purple toga.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I've thought about the roman empire once today so far.

[–] EpsilonEridani 10 points 6 months ago

Punctuation is everything. Didn't get it at first...

[–] CosmicCleric 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Is this a new thing that people include a CC anti AI license in their posts and comments? Would be pretty cool if it could be integrated in a smoother way as like a post property.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Yes, it's the new "I do not consent to Facebook using my data".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not too be confused with copyleft and wtfpl.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Here's a comment saying it's useless from a different thread linked by a parallel comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/9817207

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Ave, true to Caesar!

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