• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      I’ll see you and raise you.

      Lindsey Davis does a series of mysteries set in ancient Rome. We know very little about the actual slang Roman plebeians used so she had to make up a lot of ‘tough guy’ language in her books.

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      2 months ago

      Wow, fascinating. So a couple of guys who did a lot of dubbing work sort of created this gonzo style and got away with applying it willy nilly. I mean I get it. Sometimes you have to get weird to keep yourself awake at work. The Wikipedia article mentions further down that one of the editors they worked with “suspected a joke.” :D