Lend me your ears
I wonder if the Italians start their meetings with this?
‘Vorrei iniziare rendendo omaggio ai proprietari tradizionali e custodi della terra sulla quale ci incontriamo oggi, i Rom dell’Impero Romano, e porgere i miei rispetti ai loro anziani del passato e del presente, così come ai leader emergenti.”
Aka
‘I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we meet today, the Romans of the Roman Empire, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present, as well as to emerging leaders’.
Arguably the English could do the same.
After all, what have Romans given us?
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