Flamewars

This link was posted on the RCC site and I just had to share this with you. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Flame_war

Heres a small quote from it...

Quote :

The first true flame warrior was the Roman statesman, Cicero, who wrote various insulting letters to other Romans in the provinces. A classic example was this to Marc Antony:

Marce! Ede stercem meum et morere! (Marcus! Eat my shit and die!)

To this, Marc Antony replied:

Cicero! Noli dicere!!! Malus vir es et crassus! (Cicero! Don't say that! You are a bad man, and you're fat)

Marc Antony, clearly, had been pwnt.

Flame wars have not progressed much over time.

Heehee, thats hilarious.

LOL

Cicero is the shit, like for real. Roman history as encouraged and motivated by cliche dramas like Rome, Gladiator etc. as well as the obvious rtw, for me, obliged a personal immersion into all that was latin.

Biographical works by people like Anthony Everett and the like are pretty good, but much along the same vein as your post, his dictated orations as well as ancient personal writings exhibit shockingly complex perception and rational insight. Cool stuff.

...nice! it is funny to hear verbatim translations of those ancient correspondences. it almost makes the exchanges seem childish in comparison to our modern more complex dialects. but whats lost, and is still lost today in direct translations, is the feeling-tone and geographic and sociological contextual relevance. there is also a more broad linguistic thesaurus. there are just more words and ways to describe events and feelings now than ever before, and that trend will never stop. Cicero was highly regarded as one of ancient Romes most eloquent and expressive figures, but the previous sounded kinda like: "..Marcus youre a DOODIE head, i hate you" "..Shut up Cicero-fatty, NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAH!" HAHAHA