Viggen Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Just found out that some folks at Google seem to like the roman empire too http://www.google.com/intl/la/ now who finds the first error? cheers viggen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 I've known for a while that you can get google search page in different languages. My homepage is Google and I like to change to language occasionally to confuse mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 It's funny how many things are written in latin in the modern world isn't it I've seen the latin version of a Harry Potter book, a latin version of Encyclopaedia Britannica and now a latin Google? It's very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dalby Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 It's funny how many things are written in latin in the modern world isn't it I've seen the latin version of a Harry Potter book, a latin version of Encyclopaedia Britannica and now a latin Google? It's very interesting. Who on earth has done a Latin Encyclopaedia Britannica? A true labour of Hercules! Asterix in Latin is said to be not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viggen Posted January 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 It's funny how many things are written in latin in the modern world isn't it btw. did you know that the casual greeting form in austria is "servus (latin.slave, probably the original meaning to be your servant or something along those lines") and it is not like we use it just sometimes, no we use it all the time... it is the austrian way of saying hello! cheers viggen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neos Dionysos Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 It's funny how many things are written in latin in the modern world isn't it btw. did you know that the casual greeting form in austria is "servus (latin.slave, probably the original meaning to be your servant or something along those lines") and it is not like we use it just sometimes, no we use it all the time... it is the austrian way of saying hello! cheers viggen Just goes to show you how much we took from them in our development into our current societies. An example off the top of my head: Impede is a Latine word we use... but then the exact opposite, expede, fell out of disuse... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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