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| ▲ | graemep an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| They were written in Latin until well into the modern era. Newton wrote his major work in Latin, for example. |
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| ▲ | dcminter an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yes, I know. Why the confidence that this contradicts anything I said? Edit: Re-reading I realise you were reading that as me thinking the books weren't written in Latin, whereas I was trying to get the parent poster to think a bit beyond "the books were written in Latin" to wonder why they might be written in Latin long, long after the fall of the Roman Empire. |
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| ▲ | LtWorf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Because other languages didn't have a writing system, which is why every western language is using latin alphabet now. |
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| ▲ | dcminter an hour ago | parent [-] | | Would you like to qualify that hilariously wrong statement a bit? | | |
| ▲ | LtWorf an hour ago | parent [-] | | Is there a question here or just sneering? I don't really care to waste my time since you don't really seem interested in learning anything new. Have a nice day. | | |
| ▲ | dcminter 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Mostly sneering, if I'm honest. I love learning new stuff, but I'm not optimistic you can help there. |
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