Latin and Italian


Oscan is Latin with every other consonant changed to f.
--Justin Mansfield


Classical Latin is essentially an artificial language devised to make the vulgar Roman aristocracy sound intelligent.
--Javier de la Rosa


Latin is essentially what you have if you read a satanist mass backwards. (tse assim, eti!)
--Luís Henrique


Latin is essentially Greek with all of the interesting bits dropped into the Adriatic.
--Dan Seriff


Classical Latin is essentially Liturgical Latin with correct pronunciation.
--Dan Seriff


Conversely, Liturgical Latin is essentially Classical Latin with all initial consonants pronounced as affricates.
--Dan Seriff


Modern Latin is essentially Classical Latin full of neologisms that end in -trum.
--Justin Mansfield


Church Latin is essentially reverse-engineered Italian.
--Justin Mansfield


Erasmian Latin is essentially Church Latin as spoken by Germans.
--Justin Mansfield


Italian is essentially bad Latin.
--Eugene Holman


Spanish is essentially bad Italian.
--Eugene Holman


Italian is essentially Latin as spoken by people who were shouting at their slaves all the time.
--Benct Philip Jonsson


Italian is essentially machine gun fire heard from a long way off.
--Dan Seriff


Italian is essentially Tuscan dialect as spoken by a Lombard.
--Luca Mangiat


Italian is essentially Latin in a leather factory.
--Mike Taylor


Venetian is essentially Spanish as spoken by people not smart enough to discover America.
--Marco Cimarosti


Lombard is essentially Italian spoken with German accent and English grammar.
--Marco Cimarosti


Lombard is essentially French as spoken by Italians who don't know French.
--Marco Cimarosti


Piedmontese is essentially French as spoken by Italians who only know French a little bit.
--Marco Cimarosti


Ligurian is essentially Sicilian spoken with a Portuguese accent.
--Marco Cimarosti


Corsican is essentially Ligurian spoken with a Sardinian accent and some French words.
--Marco Cimarosti


Romanesque is essentially Tuscan spoken with a Neapolitan accent.
--Marco Cimarosti


Tuscan is essentially Italian with all consonants aspirated.
--Marco Cimarosti


Neapolitan is essentially a sign language. The loud sounds that Neapolitans emit are just music to accompany the gestures.
--Marco Cimarosti


Bolognese is essentially Lombard spoken with a English accent.
--Marco Cimarosti


Sicilian is essentially ancient Tuscan spoken with an English accent.
--Marco Cimarosti


Italian is essentially English with vowels added to the ends of words.
Lombard is essentially Italian with vowels removed from the ends of words.
Ergo, Lombard is essentially English.
--And Rosta/Marco Cimarosti


Ecclesiastical Latin is essentially Classical Latin with a "pick your pronounciation" sign over every phoneme.
--Harald Stoiber

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