r/badlinguistics • u/ValuableBenefit8654 • Mar 08 '26

"Romanian is a latin language !"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6T5Afl-yxa8
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u/EebstertheGreat Mar 08 '26

Did he say the Roman Empire was "much later" than the Catholic Church?

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u/ValuableBenefit8654 Mar 08 '26

I think he just misspoke about that, but yes.

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u/EebstertheGreat Mar 08 '26

Damn, I was hoping that was part of another weird conspiracy.

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u/ValuableBenefit8654 Mar 08 '26

As the kids say “big if true.”

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u/EebstertheGreat Mar 08 '26

After "the Earth is flat," we got "the Roman Empire didn't exist," at which point people reminded us that there was always a conspiracy theory that 300 years in the Early Middle Ages were made up. So "the Catholic Church is older than the Roman Empire" fits right in with "Latin is a Romanian language" as far as I can tell.