• plyth@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    So when the Republicans go full (Roman) fascism, they will do a 180 and start embracing lgbtq?

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      They already do. Republicans are some of the top viewers of femboy porn.
      Pretty sure pretty sure its a power thing to fuck the thing you “hate”

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Roman men were as much gay friendly as Republican men are female friendly. Just because they like to fuck them doesn’t mean they see them as equals.

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    Ok so a funny thing is that in my language debilas just means someone really stupid it is an insult but is it a coincidence or not because the roman empire had only traded amber with us. And if that is the case I wonder how when trading amber someone diverted the conversation to twinks so many times that it became part of the language. Or it is just a coincidence.

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      4 days ago

      The Lithuanian meaning is the same as in English, French, Russian, Finnish, etc. The meaning has changed during the two millenia and has then been borrowed into Lithuanian.

    • Spezi@feddit.org
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      5 days ago

      The translations are in the post, it’s the same word origin. Weak or disabled can also refer to the brain. Its just an adjective.

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        5 days ago

        I understand that but my language isn’t romanic just the thing that these words are similar is strange and kinda funny to me.

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          5 days ago

          It’s probably not a coincidence. There are tons of words in every language that stem from latin one way or another even in russian. Languages can have tons of different influences over the thousands of years they developed and even today they are changing.

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      5 days ago

      Exactly as young as you think unfortunately. They did have slavery, so probably without consent too.

  • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    it’s not that well-known so i don’t blame the tweeter, but the word starting with E is a slur. i’m not sure if there’s an exact replacement, though, because “Inuit” only refers to one community out of I think three?

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      6 days ago

      Should be from mulier which means woman in Latin, but maybe the mulier word itself is related?

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      6 days ago

      There is also “Molly” in English but supposedly it has no relation etymologically

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    6 days ago

    A lot of these are just regular words that could also be used for twinkies (especially puer seems funny, calling twink a literal boy).

    But we still see influences from the Roman empire today - in financial industry entry positions are often (junior) analyst.

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      6 days ago

      There’s also twunk - a twink and a hunk. A twink with muscles but still hairless, incredibily smooth. A twank on the other hand, a twank is no good. That’s a twink and a skank. Essentially just a ragdoll being passed around from twink to twunk to bear to otter…

      It’s very difficult to maintain the lifestyle of a twank-versatile because this often leads to a lot of self-hatred and denial, especially among the political or religious types, so they try to realign their sexual orientation through therapy.