I can understand that this was meant as a joke, but that just really enforces my point that no one can seem to muster a good reason.But why male models?
In all seriousness, no, it isn't because 'it sounds cool,' but rather because it captures the essence of the CBP in a phrase that has cultural weight as well as linguistic simplicity. 'Voice of the People' is a clunky, inelegant variant of Vox Populi.
Besides, Latin makes perfect sense for the CBP, seeing as we're a satire of the Roman Republic. We're a community-driven mod project with open membership (so long as you aren't a filthy barbarian), we have farcical voting procedures on mundane things like 'our name' (the senate), meanwhile the empire is actually managed by a cadre of unelected authority figures with dictatorial ambitions (myself, ilteroi, etc.). W. Howard serves as both Romulus and Remus, naturally. Also we have sub-sub-forums (provinces) that are largely ignored by the central subforum (Rome), and the people's forum (the bug reports thread) is full of peasants who complain about rampant sanitation and housing issues (bugs) that I can ignore while chilling in my beautiful Roman villa. Also also, some people refer to me as the pope in other circles, which is a nice narrative link between the republic, the empire, and medieval Rome. JFD could probably be squeezed in there somewhere as a Julius Caesar-esque figure: enough power to topple us from his Gallic province if he wanted to, but he's slightly dependent on Rome for his power (i.e. the DLL), thus he is loyal...until he picks up C++ on his own. And so on.
See, it is perfect, flawless analogy!
I think I need more coffee. Or less.
Actually thought we had already passed it, but then again it was around for a lot longer than CPP have been. I really need to pay more attention to post-counts I guess.
Latin is a foundational, more universal language that doesn't need translation.
But why male models?
In all seriousness, no, it isn't because 'it sounds cool,' but rather because it captures the essence of the CBP in a phrase that has cultural weight as well as linguistic simplicity. 'Voice of the People' is a clunky, inelegant variant of Vox Populi.
Besides, Latin makes perfect sense for the CBP, seeing as we're a satire of the Roman Republic. We're a community-driven mod project with open membership (so long as you aren't a filthy barbarian), we have farcical voting procedures on mundane things like 'our name' (the senate), meanwhile the empire is actually managed by a cadre of unelected authority figures with dictatorial ambitions (myself, ilteroi, etc.). W. Howard serves as both Romulus and Remus, naturally. Also we have sub-sub-forums (provinces) that are largely ignored by the central subforum (Rome), and the people's forum (the bug reports thread) is full of peasants who complain about rampant sanitation and housing issues (bugs) that I can ignore while chilling in my beautiful Roman villa. Also also, some people refer to me as the pope in other circles, which is a nice narrative link between the republic, the empire, and medieval Rome. JFD could probably be squeezed in there somewhere as a Julius Caesar-esque figure: enough power to topple us from his Gallic province if he wanted to, but he's slightly dependent on Rome for his power (i.e. the DLL), thus he is loyal...until he picks up C++ on his own. And so on.
See, it is perfect, flawless analogy!
I think I need more coffee. Or less.
Also, I don't want to alarm anyone, but we're under 300 messages from dethroning Communitas in the Projects subforum as the biggest subforum. A moment of silence is needed, I think.
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Your ignorance is understandable Ireland was never conquered by Rome.
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