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minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·4 个月前Romans got to determine the terminology that people would use for thousands of years. Celts got their culture disrespected and forgotten.
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 个月前Idk. Feels like splitting hairs. On one hand you’re right about the culture thing. On the other hand imagine a translation mistake lasting thousands of years.
minus-squareOsaErisXero@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 个月前If anything, it’s a little based of the Romans. They didn’t come in and rename them all Claudius Flavius or Biggus Dickus or whatever, they just asked the locals for their names, wrote them down, and left them as what the locals called them.
minus-squareerp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 个月前Don’t forget the imperial timekeeper, Favious Flav. Yeeeaaah, boyyy!
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 个月前Yeah but how many times can you hear the same name be given and not go “Wait I think we might be doing this wrong…”
Romans got to determine the terminology that people would use for thousands of years.
Celts got their culture disrespected and forgotten.
Idk. Feels like splitting hairs.
On one hand you’re right about the culture thing. On the other hand imagine a translation mistake lasting thousands of years.
If anything, it’s a little based of the Romans. They didn’t come in and rename them all Claudius Flavius or Biggus Dickus or whatever, they just asked the locals for their names, wrote them down, and left them as what the locals called them.
Don’t forget the imperial timekeeper, Favious Flav. Yeeeaaah, boyyy!
With a big sundial around his neck
Yeah but how many times can you hear the same name be given and not go “Wait I think we might be doing this wrong…”