whats with people and replacing u with v

@theorytoe People who get off to Roman Empire often do that because U didn't exist in Latin, V was used where U is used nowadays 🤷

and techincally v was just w pronounciation wise

@theorytoe Yeah, something like that — used as both, as a consonant and as a wovel, also I was used in place of J IIRC 🤔

j was actually pronounced like y
so a word like Jesu would be 'Yaysoo'

i was a thing actually, but also theres ī which sounded like 'ee' and i was just 'ieh' (not eye, that was reserved for ae)
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J is still used that way in several European languages, in Czech, even in German, probably Polish too. In Spanish and related languages, Jesus is Khesoos I think.
They didn't standardize it early on so everyone just made this stuff up 😂

yeah
but hey latin isnt as awful is english :marseydisintegrate:

@theorytoe Yep. I even tried learning Latin, but the book I had wasn't very good and it was long time ago so I don't remember a thing now 😅

@m0xee yeah I had a 4 years of middle school dedicated to it

and before you ask no, im not catholic

@theorytoe Huh, you're full of surprises 😁
It's still has uses nowadays, I think those who study law and medical doctors to be still study it at the college.

@m0xee I carried me hardcore in spanish
literally half the grammar concepts are lifted entirely 1:1
@theorytoe @m0xee if I could only time travel once, I’d go back and make sure thr Great Vowel Shift didn’t happen (it’s why English vowels are fucked up)
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