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by aatharuv 2286 days ago
If you're not a fluent English language speaker, you might want to look at a dictionary before calling people morons.

In addition to its original definition as "what the Eastern Roman Empire morphed into", it also means: "excessively convoluted" "highly complex, intricate, and devious". These other definitions unsurprisingly are based on what English language speakers thought of the Byzantines..

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Right, but it is nothing specific of English language.

Oh, and the original definition should be simply "born in Byzantium", now Istambul.