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by rajansaini 1922 days ago
Why is that out of curiosity?
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Reading the English for Catullus 16 (pretty dirty) and feeling jealous that they could put it so succinctly in their own language. Also this TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shape....
It was the common language of the time.