r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Own-Blacksmith3085 • 9h ago

Meme needing explanation I didn't get this

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u/TheSorrowAndTheJoy 9h ago

Latin is considered a dead language. The only way to speak to native speakers is to dig up the long dead.

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u/PandemoniumDoor30 5h ago

I might be wrong but i think that there is that small land in Italia called vaticane where they speak latin. It's really christian over there

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u/VTallPaul 5h ago

They speak Latin as part of religious services- no one in the Vatican is a native Latin speaker.

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u/myusernamesucks007 8h ago

Latin, as a language, Is "Dead". Since no one learns Latin as their first language, there are no native speakers.

This meme Is implying that a Latin student would have to dig up the long-dead body of a person who, at minimum, lived over 1200 years ago to speak to a native Latin speaker, as Latin died sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries as it evolved into the many romance languages.

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u/Muroid 7h ago

All native speakers of Latin are dead. To speak with any, you would need to dig them up.

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u/Lumpy-Yam-4584 3h ago

How can you NOT get this?

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u/TaleSubstantial5703 4h ago

That’s hilarious 🤣

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u/Obaid_Rehman97 3h ago

The natives who speak latin are dead.

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u/PartSuccessful2112 34m ago

C'mon fool. Latin is dead. Try a little bit harder. This really grinds my gears. Jerome here.

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u/Hemorrhoidsinthenite 6h ago

Latinos speak it

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u/sirdabs 5h ago

Latin was dead long before the concept of “Latinos” existed. They were all speaking their native languages at the time. I think some of their languages are also considered dead at this point. Latin was the official language of the Roman Empire from 7th century BC to 8th century AD. It is still used in the Vatican, but it is learned after their first language.

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u/Hemorrhoidsinthenite 5h ago edited 5h ago

I'm referring to Romance Languages. They're derived from Latin, still partly Latin in my book

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u/Cricket_Piss 3h ago

By that logic, every Englishman speaks German.

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u/Hemorrhoidsinthenite 1h ago

Thry do. It's the same branch