Toes♀@ani.social to Science MemesEnglish · 6 months agoWhat year is it?ani.socialimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up11.17Karrow-down112
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minus-squaremrmule@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 months agoIn Egypt they would say the 8th year of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
minus-squaremaculata@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·6 months agoNo they wouldn’t. They would say something similar BUT IN OLDE WORLDY EGYPTIAN.
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months ago59 BC is actually pretty close to coptic I’d bet for spoken language (though officially it wouldn’t be called coptic with consistent Greek script until the third century). At least in the sense that vulgar Latin was close to Italian.
minus-squaremaculata@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoYeah but Mrmule was talking at us in English, see?
In Egypt they would say the 8th year of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
No they wouldn’t. They would say something similar BUT IN OLDE WORLDY EGYPTIAN.
59 BC is actually pretty close to coptic I’d bet for spoken language (though officially it wouldn’t be called coptic with consistent Greek script until the third century). At least in the sense that vulgar Latin was close to Italian.
Yeah but Mrmule was talking at us in English, see?