Alucard☦alea iacta est

[bloodarthsis]

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[ablealba]

Which language is that?

[bloodarthsis]

Latin, child.

[ablealba]

You know Latin? No one speaks that anymore. It must be exciting to know a dead language!

[bloodarthsis]

Latin has never died. There are many who know the language far better than I.

[ablealba]

But no one speaks it anymore. That's what a dead language is.

[bloodarthsis]

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

No one?

[ablealba]

Well. No native people and stuff. Like here the native language is English. And in France it's French. And in Italy it's Italian. And in Brazil it's Portuguese.

[bloodarthsis]

French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, my native tongue Romanian, are all rooted in this so-called dead language.

You are an American are you not, child?

[ablealba]

Well, yeah. They all came from it. But they're all so different now!

Um. Yes. And I'm not really a child. I'm twelve.

[bloodarthsis]

You are a child, girl. Far younger than I.

I believe several of your legal terms are rooted in Latin.

Habeas corpus, bona fide, de facto, veto, just to name a few.

The language is not dead. It still exists, still preserved in everyday society, child.

[ablealba]

I'm a young adult. Not a child. Children are like. Ten and smaller.

Well, yeah, Latin is in English and other languages, but it's not spoken all by itself anymore is what I mean by dead.

[bloodarthsis]

Ahhhhhh, I had almost forgotten the innocence and naivety the youth can possess, hmmn.

What is your name, child?

[ablealba]

I'm not that naive.

Alba. What's your name?

[bloodarthsis]

I go by many names, but you my address me as Alucard.

[ablealba]

How many?

Nice to meet you, Mr. Alucard. You're from Romania, you said? How different is it here than in Romania?

[bloodarthsis]

Over 500 years ago, I was born Vlad Dracul III Țepeș, after my death, I was called Dracula, now I am called Alucard.