• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20639

    tl;dr it isn’t Latin Latin - a lot of swords had tons of odd spellings and there are theories about why that is. This sword could be a combo of acronyms of Latin words and possibly spelling errors.

    For example, “I’d like a sword named Christmas” -> “Please make me a sword that says XMAS” -> sword that says XMS