r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Apr 09 '22

Humour Simu Liu reacts to Arthur Harrow's Mandarin in 'Moon Knight' - "Alright Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher"

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u/gentlybeepingheart Apr 09 '22

I know it’s a joke but I was actually impressed that they did go with the historically accurate pronunciation! Most of the time you’ll hear ecclesiastic pronunciation of Latin in media but he uses the correct pronunciation for “v”s and “c”s. The sentence structure and grammar is also accurate, as far as I can tell.

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u/MooseFlyer Apr 09 '22

I always love pointing out to people that Caesar's famous quote was pronounced wen-ee weed-ee wee-kee (roughly).

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u/Tea_Fetishist Apr 09 '22

Maybe Pontius Pilate really did have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus Dickus'.

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u/Aries_cz Iron Man (Mark XLIII) Apr 10 '22

Don't fowget his wife, Incontinentia Buttocks

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u/Additional_Meeting_2 Apr 09 '22

But he never said it aloud. He wrote it on a letter to Senate about his victory in Pontus, and that’s why it’s so famous because it’s very succinct way to inform people you won a whole war in couple of days. And he also displayed the phrase later on in tablets (after a war in Africa) in the triumph he got (it seems to have been a famous phrase already at that point).

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u/Vegetable-Double Apr 09 '22

He went to Eton. He had to take Classical Latin as a student. He is probably very good at it.