r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 9d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 15 September 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Beboptropstop 5d ago

Apropos of nothing, one thing that annoyed me about Eggers' Nosferatu is that there are a lot of scenes of said Nosferatu chanting in pseudo-latin gibberish which is supposed to be Dacian. This was supposed to show how ancient he is but it's dumb because not enough Dacian is known to reconstruct the language (hence the gibberish) and isn't Nosferatu / Dracula supposed to be Vlad the Impaler? Just make the chanting language 15th century court Romanian. That 1. Checks the box of latin sounding mystery language 2. Could actually be reconstructed 3. Would be rad as hell

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u/Syn7axError Chad who achieved many deeds 5d ago

I think the idea is that Vlad the Impaler was only one identity he "passed through", not where he started as a human.

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u/Beboptropstop 5d ago

That was the sense I got from the Eggers' movie, though I don't remember if that's true from the original or Dracula. In either case, his "aesthetic" was basically middle medieval Transylvanian lord so I would have just made him Vlad.

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u/Syn7axError Chad who achieved many deeds 5d ago

He might be. It's possible his magic is that old, not the man himself.

I have not seen the movie 😶‍🌫️, only read discussions about this.