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An older friend of ours from California had a brother who was a fluent Latinist from grad school, and when his brother went to Rome for the first time, he didn'
by cpr 3y ago
An older friend of ours from California had a brother who was a fluent Latinist from grad school, and when his brother went to Rome for the first time, he didn't know any Italian.
He figured, what the heck, and ordered a meal in Latin.
The waiter, without missing a beat, said "You must have been gone a long time."
True story...