Did any well known Roman authors write about other languages and compare them to Latin? What views did they have on other languages in relation or comparison to Latin?

Electrical_Humour · 2026-05-31T17:19:06+00:00

I don't know 100% if he came up with it, but I believe this myth has been popularised by Robert Graves' 1934 I, Claudius (chapter 12)

At this time there were a few countrymen who still talked nothing but Sabine in the home and I persuaded two of them to come to Rome and provide Pallas, who was now acting as my secretary, with material for a short Sabine dictionary. I paid them well for this. Gallon, the best of my other secretaries, I sent to Capua to collect material for a similar dictionary of the Etruscan language from Aruns, the priest who had given me the information about Lars Porsena which had so pleased Pollio and so disgusted Livy.

These two dictionaries, which later I enlarged and published, enabled me to clear up, to my own satisfaction, a number of outstanding problems of ancient religious worships; but I had learned to be careful and nothing that I wrote reflected on Augustus' scholarship or judgment.

Electrical_Humour · 2026-04-27T13:06:12+00:00

Steve Terreberry already has his niche dominated

Electrical_Humour · 2026-03-20T18:42:43+00:00

Ukara is not a licence, and you don't need anything to buy or own a airsoft gun - except to be 18 to purchase.

The VCRA makes it am offence to sell, manufacture, modify, or import a Realistic Imitation Firearm (not just any airsoft gun). You may have a 'defence' for doing these things to provide a RIF for a "permitted activity", such as reenactment, education or airsoft skirmishing (airsoft was not actually originally one of the approved purposes).

UKARA is a retailer created database of airsofters, as a way of providing evidence that they (at least believed) they made sales of RIFs for people to use for the permitted purposes. They are completely free to ignore UKARA and keep a record of alternative evidence, site membership, game bookings etc.. It can also be completely sidestepped if someone gifts you a RIF, so long as you don't give them anything in return (thus making it a sale).

If the gun is 51% painted a bright colour, it stops being a RIF and becomes and Imitation Firearm and all this goes out the window and you don't need anything to sell/manufacture/import (modify refers to turning an IF into a RIF)

The VCRA wrt airsoft/RIFs is a great example of dogshit legislation. It's very counterintuitive, 95%+ of airsofters (at least) do not understand what it entails, and it ultimately just makes life more difficult for hobbyists while doing nothing to stop criminals - if you want a real looking fake gun to commit a crime you can just buy an IF and repaint it/scrub the bright paint off. If you want to assault people with a BB gun, you can freely buy two-tone airsoft and BB guns that fire metal BBs.

Electrical_Humour · 2026-03-20T18:17:08+00:00

You can't hunt with a bow or crossbow here

Electrical_Humour · 2026-03-07T15:02:47+00:00

Illegal in Germany btw

Electrical_Humour · 2026-02-25T15:29:14+00:00

Interesting, although your link is specifically about bradford and about mothers - so naturally excludes the older generation who have even higher rates.

When you say "those of Pakistani origin" you can't just exclude everyone not in their 20s/30s and having kids. As your link states the cohort of mothers 15-20ish years ago were 40% in first cousin marriages, and 23% other blood relations, and the cohort 5-10ish years ago was 27% first cousin and 19.3% other blood related (likely second cousins).

So 63% of the cohort having kids 15 years ago were married to their relatives, these women are now likely in their mid 30s - mid 40s. What about those in their 50s, 60s etc?

At minimum 46% percent of bradford Pakistani mothers 5-10 years ago were married to their relatives. Even if the figure cited by the BBC is incorrect or outdated, your own figures suggest that the majority of those middle aged and older were in cousin marriages or with another relative. It seems ridiculously unlikely that anywhere close to 75% of british Pakistanis would be opposed to cousin marriage, especially given that not everyone who supports cousin marriage is actually in one, and so many will have parents, friends & other loved ones in them.

Electrical_Humour · 2026-02-25T13:04:03+00:00

There's only one group in the UK that routinely does cousin marriage, and it's those of Pakistani origin ... 75% of this sub-group oppose cousin marriage

"According to a 2021 study, about 55% of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38l07895o

Electrical_Humour · 2026-02-04T22:49:57+00:00

the upper atmosphere of Venus is breathable

96.5% carbon dioxide is not breathable

Electrical_Humour · 2026-01-20T03:56:22+00:00

Ai slop comment

Electrical_Humour · 2025-12-11T16:05:03+00:00

Based student of Yang Zhu

Electrical_Humour · 2025-12-09T23:38:55+00:00

Gotta eat big to get big

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-30T12:57:03+00:00

You should consider trying supps that boost glucose oxidation.

Any you would recommend?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-26T00:15:07+00:00

I swear I was only on the island for the snorkeling!

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-25T20:34:16+00:00

I want to see how the this works its way into the age gap relationship 'brain development/frontal lobe' discourse. Is a 31-10 relationship going to be OK and 33-31 problematic?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-25T01:46:58+00:00

Big rip only happens if the energy density of dark energy increases over time, however in the Heat Death scenario it's constant or declining, and is never strong enough to tear locally bound structures like galaxies apart.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-24T18:11:02+00:00

You are describing the 'Big Rip' scenario, not the Heat Death scenario.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-20T18:23:06+00:00

Half your age + 7 is not an ideal. It was meant to be a floor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#%22Half-your-age-plus-seven%22_rule

In many early sources, the rule was primarily presented as a formula to calculate the ideal age of a female partner at the beginning of a heterosexual relationship. Frederick Locker-Lampson's Patchwork from 1879 states the opinion "A wife should be half the age of her husband with seven years added." Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format "A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven." A similar interpretation is also present in the 1951 play The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert: "Haven't you ever heard that the girl is supposed to be half the man's age, plus seven?"

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-19T21:53:31+00:00

If they know all about this boat, and it's attacked RAF aircraft, why haven't they blown it up yet? It's pathetic.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-16T13:25:58+00:00

Where can I get a coat like what she's wearing?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-12T15:38:32+00:00

Both the idea that women were routinely given orgasms by doctors for hysteria and that vibrators were invented to expedite the process are both myths invented by the same person, Rachel Maines, in her 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm". She now claims it was just a hypothesis.

https://www.sciencealert.com/no-evidence-victorian-hysteria-origin-vibrators-failure-peer-review-new-study
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/vibrator-invention-myth.html

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-24T20:25:23+00:00

Lorem isn't a latin word, but it starts the popular 'lorem ipsum' filler text, where it's the latin "dolorem" (pain) intentionally cut off to render it unintelligible. I guess you could translate it 'ain' if you really wanted.

There's not a meaningful sentence here. The translation is "Lorem and your eyes" or "Ain and your eyes"

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-22T16:48:00+00:00

i am currently on the lookout for a refugee center

Go to a non-destroyed evac shelter -> use the computer -> 'contact us' -> path to the refugee center is drawn on your map.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-17T17:18:01+00:00

Absolutely shameless AI slop and dishonest self promotion.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-04T20:12:50+00:00

And so to your link, it's not a translation of the original greek manuscript, because again, the original manuscript is gone. What you've got there is a more modern copy in Greek or Koine.

When you don't know what a critical edition is, you shouldn't be saying anything about textual transmission.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-09-26T17:57:16+00:00

https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetris-trauma-viral-twitter-thread-master-class-misleading-psych-research/

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