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Instead of “I love you” Romans said “pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo” and I think it’s really beautiful

For those wondering, Google translates this as "fuck you and fuck you."

It’s the opening line from Catullus 16, actual humans have translated it as “I will sodomize and face-fuck you”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16

Ahh, the language of love.

One of my favorite slam poets of antiquity.

And also, he who gave us “hail, brother, and farewell”.

Man had range

That's so much better. It was clear Google wasn't translating it literally.

DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator, had no idea how to translate it.

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