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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Covfefe is Classical Latin, not Vulgar Latin which is what the plebeians speak.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same energy, different target demographic.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That address redirects to I think three different sites without HTTPS and then it ends up on some webhosting site

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Uh-oh, it’s one of those websites

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not weird at all. Totally normal website made by a totally normal person.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do these websites always read like a bottle of Dr.Bronner?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Dr Bronner's insane ramblings are at least wholesome though

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the most important news item of all time.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Means they stopped paying for their domain and some ad squatter picked it up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: "translate this campaign text to Latin", because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it's called Latin America too!

Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or just scrolling through a drop down list of languages and saw Latin before Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, they ARE LATINos, not SPANISHos, silly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genuinely giggling to myself over the pronunciation as spuh-NEE-shohs

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"

Probably a Latini...

Anyways, this reminds me when the series Homeland filmed at a location that was supposed to be a syrian refugee camp and hired arab speaking graffiti artists to "add authenticity" and they wrote things like "Homeland is racist" and "BlackLivesMatter" and shit like it instead of the requested "Pro -Assad" messages... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago

What a dipshit, using a dead language for a dead campaign.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (9 children)

This can't be real. I mean . . it very much can be real, but c'mon. Somebody's just fucking with us right

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The number of people in my town that think our language is American, Mexicans speak Mexican, all Asian people are Chinese, and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States makes this very plausible.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People called Romanes they go the house?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Romani ite domum!

Now write that 100 times!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is it just me that wants to vandalize the Billboard with "Romanes eunt domus"

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only Latin he needs is sic semper tyrannis

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't know Latin and haven't taken Spanish for like 20 years, but would the first line translate to "Legal (my emphasis) Hispanics and Latinos"? Gotta love courting the votes of a demographic while still showing your bias against them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep. I studied Latin and the "legales" is modifying the two nouns.

The first actually refers to residents of Hispania, so any classical Latin speaking immigrants from Spain and Portugal should feel included.

The second refers to the Latins, who were assimilated into the Roman (Trojan if believe the Aeneid) population and no longer exist.

Stylistically, I would have gone with the enclitic "-que" over the conjunctive "et."

EDIT: They messed up the verb. Well, I'm guessing they thought they were using a verb. The "vota" is the nominative plural of votum, so it reads "Votes for Trump."

They're not bright enough to know that the English verb "elect" derives from the perfect passive participle of "eligo, eligere" - electus.

They should have gone with "Eligite Trump!" - "Choose/Elect Trump!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Basically I think though my latins rusty it reads like google translate in that the form seems wrong like someone transliterated English to Latin and ignored Latin grammar and logic in that Latin speaking people in Latin really doesn’t exist in the same way. Latini I think was only the subgroup of Latin speakers in Italy named Latium, either way not how a Roman Latin speaker would refer to a Latin speaker in general, not that the concept existed in the same way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latium

It’s kind of like translating Japanese directly into English, reads off if you say in the room there are many chair in English kinda deal.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Trump pro imperatore MMXXIV

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[–] Realitaetsverlust 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I know maga is dumb and all but I gotta imagine this is fake. No way they would actually know latin. That would only happen if they went to church as much as they pretend they do.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The more likely scenario is that some staffer used Google translate, and thought that Latin means the language of the Latinos.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'know I could see this being done by a third party in an attempt to portray the GOP as not caring about Hispanics (Not that they do care lol)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They would be heroes, this is amazing if so

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finally, a candidate that is pro-opera.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bad news: they're pro Repo! The Genetic Opera

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok I’ll write “Hispanics and Latinos vote for Trump” and so they think it’s from one of them, translate-> Latina and done!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The astroturfing is obscene on several levels of ignorance and artificiality, fake as the sincerity on a Nestlé ad, only more ignorant. "We don't and won't listen to a single Latino among us".

And still, I hear of Latinos gravitating towards this shit. It's like they've normalized living under bigoted oppression in places like Texas or Arizona, and/or fall for the "family values" catholic bias.

Or they come at it from some other batshit insane angle, referring to the orange plague of 2016-20 - "Funcionó! It worked!" and refusing to elaborate further, as if the case was obvious in some way that's utterly incomprehensible to me.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s really crossed the rubicon now…

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

The united states delenda est

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very telling that they didn't have a single Latino person involved in this that could have told them this is wrong. And even if you don't speak Spanish, this would feel off to anybody with any sort of exposure to Latin American culture.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

stultus stultus est

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Et tu, Pence?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Honestly it's completely readable as someone who can understand Spanish, but it feels otherworldly for some reason, like I'm reading a quite not right version of Spanish, like reading Afrikaans to a Dutch speaker.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

As someone who understands English, this is how I feel when Trump tries to speak English.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your vote

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Another, Four Seasons Total Landscaping. What a bunch of weird idiots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Tlazcala delenda est?

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