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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries

Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In some roman language like french too !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

some latin languages as well!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

It's called history.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I couldn't give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's in the username!