Ab urbe condita

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita

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Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 127d (5 replies)

Im more concerned the Roman understood.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 127d (4 replies)

What else is a time traveler going to ask?

ddssazsa@piefed.social · 4 pts · 127d (2 replies)

That the random dude spoke English not Latin.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 127d (1 reply)

If you see a time traveler arrive, look around, then ask something, the right answer is probably the date, regardless of whether you speak their language or not

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 127d

Lol the guy understanding is also a time traveling not trying to blow cover.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d

Romani eunt ad domum?

Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 127d

That's not very anno consulatu Iulii Caesaris et Calpurnii Bibuli of you.

Minardil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 127d (1 reply)

Well, all other issues aside, the guy would be saying "the year of Caesar and Bibulus"

CanadaPlus@futurology.today · 2 pts · 126d

TFW you make a meme about a couple millennia ago, but it breaks because of a one decade anachronism.

(Unless Atticus stole it or told people about it while still writing, the system was published in 47 BC)