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It's more "gravitas" than "fancy."
by hydrok9 3y ago
It's more "gravitas" than "fancy."
- sjsanc 3y agoThe GP's turn of phrase read quite convincingly like Iain M Banks, then I see this!
- pif 3y agoquidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur whatever has been said in Latin seems deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(Q) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(Q)
- rintakumpu 3y agoYes, this would be my hypothesis too. I see Hollywood epics all the way from D.W. Griffith (and the studios that made them) wanting to broadcast an aura of gravitas. And nothing does that like using pretentious Roman numerals. Of course it's all convention nowadays.