317
Me_irl (thelemmy.club)
submitted 17 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Classical latin education ftw. But fr that's the best odds you're going to get. Classical Latin is often taught as it was in the late republic/Julian dynasty, unless you got ecclesiastical Latin in which case, you've got a decent area and you better hope you're in the middle ages in europe and want to talk to the clergy.

But yeah, in general ancient languages as we currently understand them are really the languages of the educated, elites, merchants, and clergy. You have exceptions for highly literate societies like Rome where we have plenty of graffiti teaching us vulgar words like irrumatio. But for the most part writing was for records and official communication for a long time.

this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
317 points (97.3% liked)

me_irl

7842 readers
2901 users here now

All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS