▲ 264 ▼ The perfect language (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/funny@lemmy.ml 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (3 children) Probably cuz the religion was invented 2000 years ago permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (2 children) Yeah but they were speaking hebrew and aramaic not latin permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] late_list@piefed.zip 6 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Then the Aramaic texts were translated into Greek, which were then spread in the Roman empire, until eventually a Roman caesar was converted, who then made it the state religion, which after the empire collapsed the church apparatus that survived used the fact that only the educated elite still spoke Latin as a form of political control, which then caused then cultural perception of Latin to be associated with the arcane and powerful. So presto chango Latin speaking Satan was born permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 point 5 months ago He's rather erudite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzLFqOTZyw And pro-imperialism. Even Ha-Satan is schismed! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (2 children) Yeah but they were speaking hebrew and aramaic not latin permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] late_list@piefed.zip 6 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Then the Aramaic texts were translated into Greek, which were then spread in the Roman empire, until eventually a Roman caesar was converted, who then made it the state religion, which after the empire collapsed the church apparatus that survived used the fact that only the educated elite still spoke Latin as a form of political control, which then caused then cultural perception of Latin to be associated with the arcane and powerful. So presto chango Latin speaking Satan was born permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 point 5 months ago He's rather erudite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzLFqOTZyw And pro-imperialism. Even Ha-Satan is schismed! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] late_list@piefed.zip 6 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Then the Aramaic texts were translated into Greek, which were then spread in the Roman empire, until eventually a Roman caesar was converted, who then made it the state religion, which after the empire collapsed the church apparatus that survived used the fact that only the educated elite still spoke Latin as a form of political control, which then caused then cultural perception of Latin to be associated with the arcane and powerful. So presto chango Latin speaking Satan was born permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 point 5 months ago He's rather erudite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzLFqOTZyw And pro-imperialism. Even Ha-Satan is schismed! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 point 5 months ago He's rather erudite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzLFqOTZyw And pro-imperialism. Even Ha-Satan is schismed! permalink fedilink source parent