Always worth remembering that "senator" comes from the Latin word for "old"https://twitter.com/MelissaJPeltier/status/1328716337816997889 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I wonder how different society would be if the Founders weren't such weebs about the Romans and just called the Senate the "Council of Elders" as it would be in English?
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
Things be different in that all of European history would probably have to be different for people of that particular class to not be Romeaboos.
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Replying to @Rage_Crayon @arthur_affect
Yeah, though it's the kind of thing that comes and goes, or at least, in the very specific formulations that showed up there. Classical revivals were a kind of fad, more than they were built in, even if there was a lot of Roman underpinnings.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
The French couldn't help themselves with the Roman things either. to be fair.
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Replying to @Rage_Crayon @arthur_affect
Yeah true, although admittedly, that's the same generation.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
The older ones maybe? Many of the most important French Revolution names were in their 30s.
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Replying to @Rage_Crayon @arthur_affect
OK, fair - but in a broad sense, it's a closely-related cultural moment, so they were more sharing a hobby than independently going for the Latinophilia.
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I am kind of curious why they didn't call it "Parliament" though.
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"Congress" and "parliament" had different connotations The word "parliament" was traditionally used to mean a group of people summoned to give advice to the king By contrast a "congress" meant a negotiation among equals, like during diplomats of warring countries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Rage_Crayon
It's really a shame we didn't stick to the Germanic tradition and just call it the "Thing"
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But yeah - I guess it's also not necessarily a noun originally, at least not in the sense that House+Senate = Congress. The meetings were a congress.
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