• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    Marsden tells Live Science that these mistakes may not have mattered to the item’s creators, who probably weren’t trying to create an exact replica.

    They were trying their best!

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      What I think is interesting is that this happened only a century after Britain stopped being a province of Rome. That’s how quickly Latin was forgotten.

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        They didn’t have liturgical latin to lean on at the time since they were pagans. Kind of makes sense they wouldn’t keep speaking a foreign tongue.