To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries

Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)

[–] ShieldOxygene@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In some roman language like french too !

[–] catfish@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Spanish too

[–] samuelinox@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

some latin languages as well!

[–] Gerula@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's called history.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's in the username!

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!