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shadowsword87 posted...

Apparently when the Spanish Conquistadors were off stomping/raiding their way through inner Mexico they would post up signs in Latin saying "surrender and live" or whatever garbage they were saying to justify murder/stealing. That's because they legitimately believed that Latin was the base universal language (being the language of God) that everyone knew and by posting their warning everyone would understand it and they just chose to not follow the warning.

Meaning a tribe of people could be sitting around, and poof, understand Latin perfectly (or at least the leaders would).

The trick there is that some of them might have CLAIMED that, but also knew full well that they were lying, and were only using it as a thinly-veiled justification to murder the people who had all the gold.

There's also the possibility that some might believe that every human was CAPABLE of learning Latin, and that anyone who didn't was essentially a savage who was either too ignorant to learn (and thus little more than an animal) or deliberately chose not to (in which case, fuck 'em), which is a slightly different interpretation.

Either way, though, you start to border on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmIQX_ImgM&t=0m50s


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