Theory: this is latent Protestantism showing itself. Protestants hated the Latin Mass and vilified anything associated with Roman Catholicism. And so depicting Latin as the language of the Devil was part of this project.
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Probably cuz the religion was invented 2000 years ago
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What if the Romans got Latin from Satan?
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Maybe Latin is just a simplified form of Infernal that us humans can pronounce
Maybe Hell is just so full of red tape that it was only thousands of years after it had been a predominant language, did they switch to Latin for all contracts. In another 1000 years, they’ll switch to Mandarin, by which point we’ll be speaking duck.
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Makes sense, Satan's a lawyer
The real Satan speaks Sumerian, that's a well-known fact.
Satan: No idea why you’d think I wouldn’t move on from Latin. Probably something to take up with movie directors, hey?
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Well, I can't imagine hell does a lot of innovating in the humanities. At least not any that isn't a form of punishment. They probably just take whatever inventions humans come up with that suit their needs.
Latin was the language most conducive to evil.
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Good stands with Constantinople, evil stands with Venice.
Latin is like the second oldest language still in use or something isn't it?
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