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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 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 10 months ago (8 children)

Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 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] 8 points 10 months ago

some latin languages as well!

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