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So I shouldn't call them Romans, since that is an English translation of what they called themselves, and thus foreign to them. But you can call them Byzantine
by derdi 3mo ago
So I shouldn't call them Romans, since that is an English translation of what they called themselves, and thus foreign to them.
But you can call them Byzantines, an English term invented in the 19th century, because... you say so? Thank you, I have been enlightened.
- cwnyth 3mo agoTell me, do you call people from China Chinese? Japan Japanese? Germany German? If so, you're a hypocrite. You're also arguing against a strawman. I never said they weren't Roman. I only said there's nothing wrong with Byzantine. Maybe if you weren't so smugly self-righteous, you'd have better reading comprehension.
- cwnyth 3mo agoSeparately, your facts are wrong, because it was centuries before that the word Byzantine was first used to describe this era of the latter eastern Roman empire. Oops, might want to read a book instead of looking at memes.