In response to
"scrolls from 79AD thought charred beyond recognition by Mount Vesuvius eruption rescued digitally for translation -- (link)"
by
hollywood big shot
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I may have told this story before, but in one of my college classes we got to translate some graffiti from Pompeii. It was filthy.
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Our dictionaries didn't provide adequate translations for some of the slang, so the prof had to tell us what those words were, LOL.
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