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Roman World (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] youRFate@feddit.de 98 points 5 months ago (24 children)

I find it very a very romantic notion to have unknown areas on the world. Like some desert in the far south, beyond which might lie anything.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Fittingly, the term romance originally meant “to derive from a romantic language”, meaning mostly Latin which was spoken in the Roman Empire.

The texts in reference were largely about chivalry and such. Hence the modern connotations.

So like, romance refers to a time before the world was fully known. :)

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 16 points 5 months ago

Wow, I never clicked that the Romantic languages meant 'Roman'! Thanks!

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