this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
802 points (98.2% liked)

Linguistics Humor

1063 readers
185 users here now

Do you like languages and linguistics ? Here is for having fun about it


Share this community: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])


Serious Linguistics community: [email protected]


Rules:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they're not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING

Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We should do that again.