Talk:Frederick the Great/@comment-84.250.162.163-20160718190933

"He is the only rapper in this battle who did not speak his own language, in this case, Prussian." Frederick in real life never spoke Prussian, a Baltic language that was practically extinct by the time he ascended the Prussian throne. Frederick, born in Berlin, was of the House of Hohenzollern and thus German, as was the Brandenburg-Prussian state which he led. He strongly preferred French, though, writing and conversing almost exclusively in French. Catherine the Great, by the way, was German by birth, a princess of the House of Anhalt. She managed to master Russian, although she retained a slight German accent. Like many continental monarchs of the era, Catherine conducted much of her correspondance and discussion in French, which she spoke fluently. Also, Pompey does not utter a word of Latin in the battle, and neither does Alexander speak Ancient Greek, unless you count the fully Anglicized word "kudos".