Idiomatic != Idiotic

Latin authors do not say "I march," they say iter facio, "I make a way/journey/trip/march" (the same iter as in reiterate, "to go that way again").

This is, of course, absolutely fatuens stupid, and I cannot for the life of me imagine a reason for it. I've even tried to find some article on why they might have done this, but I guess actual scholars have a lot more important things to think about than this. Luckily, however, I realize that if I need a model to explore the development of absolutely insane language constructions, I have no need to look further than my own dear English language.

As such, I can only laugh viciously at the thought of students in two thousand years studying English and trying to figure out why we use the phrase "was like" to mean "said."

Think about it, we totally do.