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Latin's dead and it should stay that way, actually.

[The venn diagram of people who deeply don't like Latin and people who regularly use Latin to summon demons has Carmel in the middle.]

[Demons this, demons that. People see Latin and only ever think "demons". Listen. It's not as if Whelk hasn't had experiences that would influence him to think the same, but that's not why he's pushing this.]

False. Latin is, on the contrary, very much alive.

I just used four words with Latin roots in that sentence alone.

[Want him to keep counting? He'll do it.]

Yeah, yeah. We all took Latin for Babies in middle school because old white men really wanna suck Merlin's dick.

[Unfortunately, Whelk, you're talking to someone who has a deeply rooted hatred of Latin because of colonialism. She might not pay attention to 3/4ths of her classes, but that's okay. One of her best friends wrote the book on why Latin sucks for magic purposes.]

Knowing the Latin root of words doesn't mean fuck or shit for casting in other languages, though. Oh, you wanna decaer something? Comes from decadere, so it must be something to do with falling. Then you cast it and all your plants are dead.

[Again, always the witchcraft with these people. He is trying to be a nerd right now with no strings attached. The days of Satanic rituals are far behind him, thank you (if only because he can't figure out what the fuck he's supposed to do next - that's beside the point).]

I'm talking about linguistics, not...casting. [The exasperated Jesus Christ is implied. Besides, what sort of idiot tries to mix up random languages while completing rituals--

[No. No! We are not going there. He silently tells the whispers in his head to shut up.]

Mixing languages unnecessarily is one thing, but if you want to learn languages, having an understanding - even basic at minimum - of Latin is invaluable.

Not that half the languages rooted in Latin don't mix in words anyway.

Linguistics is the basis of casting. It's why Latin for Babies is required - Latin is, on average, half as powerful as native language casting so they teach it like some kind of training wheels for idiots.

[Linguistics and casting are synonymous, where she's from. She could go on a completely different rant about "mixing languages unnecessarily" - which is just about the most white bullshit she's ever heard - but she promised Kyle she would try to not get arrested for at least a week.

It's going poorly, but it's the thought that counts, right?]

But because people like you are busy simping for Latin, everyone thinks that's actually effective casting. It isn't.

[Whelk, who is the epitome of a self-righteous white asshole, is clearly offended by this.]

Is "Latin for Babies" an actual class where you come from? Why do you keep saying that?

[As a Latin teacher, he is extra annoyed by this for some reason. Also, he is not sure what "simping" means, but he is afraid to ask since the last time he asked a stupid question about teen lingo he was told he "didn't pass the vibe check", booed by a bunch of 17-year-olds, and made to feel all around much older than he actually is. Highly unpleasant experience. Would not recommend.]

[With the absolute conviction of a Gen Z kid who has sensed Boomer in the water:]

Of course it's a real class. Isn't that what you teach?

[This what you get for simping Latin, Whelk.]

[He is a millennial, a millennial! What does it mean?]

I teach several Latin courses. "Latin for Babies" it not one of them.

[Boomer is a state of mind and a man who only eats microwave lasagna while simping Latin is in that state of mind. That's just how it be.]

Oooo, an advanced Latin bootlicker. Next you'll be telling me that your family's been speaking Latin for decades and you're descended from the lost colony of Roanoke.

[~~Okay, go off though.~~

[He actually hates this child right now?]

Pardon me. Have I done something to offend you somehow? You seem needlessly hostile as we speak about this.

[He seems needlessly hostile as he says this.]

You, specifically? Not really. You, generally? The general accumulated crimes of white people who suppressed other forms of casting for two hundred years because you think Latin is a superior language.

[At this point, she's just here to cause problems on purpose and she's having so much fun.]

[Hey, at least one of them is! It's not Whelk! Sounding more and more like the most ignorant white dude you've ever met by the second, he says:]

I haven't suppressed anything involving your "casting" - whatever that's supposed to mean - and I would appreciate it if you would kindly untangle me from any accumulated two-hundred-year-old crimes you have in mind.

[The last time she met a white guy this ignorant he at least had the excuse that he lived on an isolated island cut off from the rest of the world for, oh. Like a hundred years. Siegfred Fairclough is a dumb egg, but Carmel'd take him over this guy any day.]

I said there were two hundred years of crimes, not that they were two hundred years old. You're like, what? Forty? That's definitely old enough to owe me reparations. Venmo me, asshole.

I'm twenty-four, and I don't owe you ["shit" - no, pull it back] anything.

[24???? Carmel seems momentarily stunned into silence for a moment, because man. She definitely though he was like 30 and said 40 to be a shit. Is that what speaking Latin does to you??? It makes you look old??? Horrible.]

How are you this much of a boomer if you're not even 30? Are you rich? Rich people all have boomer energy.

[Could really use a good skateboard right about now.]

No.

I'm not.

........... You're not even rich and you're a Latin simp? [Who even does that?] That's rough, teach. You should really work on that.

[Most of the people she meets who are Latin diehards definitely just do it because they're monolingual scrubs who can't actually speak another language and know better than to try and cast in English on the regular. Personally, Carmel thinks those people should just learn ASL and stop being monolingual scrubs, but apparently making fun of people for only being able to speak one language is rude or something?]

[If Whelk could hear her internal monologue, he would insist that he can speak at least two languages and fuck all his way through at least three others, but he can't, so he doesn't.]

Lovely speaking with you.

I'm going home now.

[He needs a fucking drink.]

Uh-huh, great talk. [She waves. It's clearly sarcastic.] Have fun being two steps away from becoming a flat earth youtuber!

[If Whelk hadn't gotten caught up in Glendower bullshit, he would have become a conspiracy theorist. In this essay I will -]

[~~Listen, if anything, the earth is shaped like a donut--~~]

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