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And the reason for dropping Greek and using the word “twerking” which (in this context) came about in the 80s from niggers

The original text clearly shows greek letters, so why French??

>>20767703
Checks out. Might read this one later. Thanks for the tip.

>>20767695
He had me till "twerking" ngl

>>20767758
How would you describe it given that the original word means "making sexually suggestive motions with the hips, often in a squatting position" and is only used in connection to women?

>>20767695
what is this a translation of? Did French even exist back then? I don't think France existed.

>>20767695
What is your issue? Are you upset that your heckin Greeks and Romans were just as degenerate as the TikTok whores you despise?
Get over yourself chud.

How else are you supposed to translate someone like Martial or whoever this is? Who wants to read some gay scholarly translation of what was never scholarly in the first place?

>>20767839
Martial's Epigrams. Switching to French is actually pretty smart. Not many people can read Greek, however most people would read that French and immediately understand what's happening. It's just a little bit ugly because it says Grecisms, but that's what the asterisk is for. I'm really either way on this one.

>OP makes a thread thinking he's going to BTFO a translator, let alone an Oxford World Press published one
>ends up looking like a pseud
Classic faggot OP. He even bought the parallel Latin text version so he can pretend he reads and understands Latin. Pro-tip OP, if you could read Latin, you wouldn't need a parallel text, you would own an edition in Latin only.

>>20767824
>provocative dances
>sultry hip swinging
>whorish hobbies
>shameful frolicking
>hideous gyrations
>retarded thot "ho"-downs
>skanky Harlem shakes

>>20767846
nuh uh, honey. That's wicked retarded. Just keep it in the original ancient Greek and drop a footnote translation. That's the way pretty much every single translation in the past several centuries have translated Latin expressions in dialog.

Twerking is just such an ugly word. It's an ugly action too but they could have called it something more flattering.

>>20767916
>imaginary dildo dance

>>20767870
But it has the Latin in it too : )

>>20767840
I love me a good TikTok whore. And I like reading raunchy Roman shit. I just want it to sound like it was from Rome.

This would be like having Procopius’s Secret History saying all the annoying women of her time were “Karens”.

The man himself, Gideon “Twerking” Nisbet

>>20768035
he displays his pronouns.

>>20767991
The note literally says it's the Latin word for twerking. I'm sorry you're a faggot and a nigger.

>>20767916
the greeks would've loved it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordax

>>20767887
None of those are a single word though...you wouldn't make a good translator.