Originally Posted by
Hastings
Did you know that Latin is actually originally written with zero spaces, zero punctuation, etc. Must have been a bitch for people who have to translate Latin from the original source (I'm sure glad i don't, I like me some punctuation and spacing, and because there's no way in hell I would ever force myself to translate the below passage unless it were properly punctuated and spaced and it also needs macrons, which they didn't use either)
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