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It's just hard for me to accept that they'd changed just half a pair of opposites.

 

Compare the Latin words for Hello and goodbye. When greeting people in Latin you said ave or have (apparently borrowed from Punic) or chaere (borrowed from Greek); but when saying goodbye you said vale, a native Latin word meaning

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It's just hard for me to accept that they'd changed just half a pair of opposites.

 

Compare the Latin words for Hello and goodbye. When greeting people in Latin you said ave or have (apparently borrowed from Punic) or chaere (borrowed from Greek); but when saying goodbye you said vale, a native Latin word meaning

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It's just hard for me to accept that they'd changed just half a pair of opposites.

 

Compare the Latin words for Hello and goodbye. When greeting people in Latin you said ave or have (apparently borrowed from Punic) or chaere (borrowed from Greek); but when saying goodbye you said vale, a native Latin word meaning

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