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[–] 74 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

used to really enjoy calling men whores until I just found out I can refer to my homies as concu🅱️inus

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    As a straight guy, some of those seem kinda mean. I thought, they liked their twinks.

    To my gay brothers, are they mean? Or am I just too straight to get it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No they did not. The roman republic was very similar to modern America except the guy who ruined it was a bisexual hobag who seemed to care about the proleterii. As a note, it would be culturally improper to refer to a Roman man who exclusively tops men and women as bisexual, but a man who bottoms for men as well as topping women would fit that term. Julius Caesar's bisexuality was a political scandal, and he was referred to by his political opponents as "every woman's man and every man's woman".

    Rome loved twinks like America loves trans women, the sex industry and political world tell wildly different stories, and there was cultural back and forth between "hell yeah" "fucking degenerates" and "lol f@g"

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So you're saying the Romans already used "Sick!" as a descriptor two millennia ago?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Ok straight people, y'all should know that not every bottom is a twink.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's also twunk - a twink and a hunk. A twink with muscles but still hairless, incredibily smooth. A twank on the other hand, a twank is no good. That's a twink and a skank. Essentially just a ragdoll being passed around from twink to twunk to bear to otter...

    It's very difficult to maintain the lifestyle of a twank-versatile because this often leads to a lot of self-hatred and denial, especially among the political or religious types, so they try to realign their sexual orientation through therapy.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    There is a secret ruling class and they are known as the Effeminati.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    puer is just the regular word for boy, as in ”young male” without any sexual connotation.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Words can mean different things with different tones and contexts.

    Oh that one? He's a guy. But him over there he's a boy

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    "Boy" in English has a ton of potential connotations. As one of many examples, during the Civil Rights Movement there was a famous protest sign that said I AM A MAN to counter the way white men addressed black men as "boy."

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    A lot of these are just regular words that could also be used for twinkies (especially puer seems funny, calling twink a literal boy).

    But we still see influences from the Roman empire today - in financial industry entry positions are often (junior) analyst.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How uh young were they before I make any remarks

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wonder where the Roman Catholic Church gets it from.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it's not that well-known so i don't blame the tweeter, but the word starting with E is a slur. i'm not sure if there's an exact replacement, though, because "Inuit" only refers to one community out of I think three?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I giggled and kicked my feet like a schoolgirl at this, thanks

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    pullus - puella?

    Wait does calling girls "chicks" really go all the way back to Latin?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Where all the mollis boys at?

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  • The Romans mollis'd so Tumblr could softboy uwu.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i wonder whether the italian word "la moglie" (the wife) comes from "mollia", i.e. "the soft one".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Why am I reading each word like AMOGUS?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's morbin' time for the hoes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Probably got half of them from the Greeks

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok so a funny thing is that in my language debilas just means someone really stupid it is an insult but is it a coincidence or not because the roman empire had only traded amber with us. And if that is the case I wonder how when trading amber someone diverted the conversation to twinks so many times that it became part of the language. Or it is just a coincidence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Lithuanian meaning is the same as in English, French, Russian, Finnish, etc. The meaning has changed during the two millenia and has then been borrowed into Lithuanian.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    From this, we can infer that twinks were obviously a central part of the Roman conception of the world around them

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