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Hiya y'all...who in this forum is any good at writing things in LATIN ??
Anybody willing to help ?? Please P.M me... Thanks.. safe crux
Anybody willing to help ?? Please P.M me... Thanks.. safe crux
Hiya y'all...who in this forum is any good at writing things in LATIN ??
Anybody willing to help ?? Please P.M me... Thanks.. safe crux
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The reason I ask is that my Latin is something akin to this person's efforts.... View attachment 610903 LOL
It came in handy in solving a murder case once, I seem to recallWTF is the point of learning a Dead language I ask?
If you knew Latin, you could, but the bartender probably wouldn't understand your order...Can I go into a public house and order "Two pints of bitter and a bag of plain nuts" in Latin?
Hiya y'all...who in this forum is any good at writing things in LATIN ??
Anybody willing to help ?? Please P.M me... Thanks.. safe crux
What do you want in Latin. I can do a little. It would pass reasonably, though Caesar would regard me as barely literate
Thank you...Understand that Latin is a much more inflected language than English. Therefore, words change depending on how they are used. Example: I, me, mine.
A traitor, male, is a proditor, female - proditrix meaning someone who gives over (to the enemy)
High treason is somewhat ideomatic (unique) in English, Latin words for treason are very context dependent. One is tradition, meaning handing over information (to the enemy). Also Maiestas, (from which majesty comes - change the i to a j) meaning both dignity and treason - go figure!.
Praise the emperor - that is easy a stock phrase in Latin: Ave Caesar
Cheers - if a wild crowd cheering, then there is no clear word, like a modern sports crowd whopping it up. The formal words are Ave (hail, greetings) and Vale (be well, greetings). If you mean a toast before drinking, Gaudete (be joyful) works well
I am proud to say that I achieved the grand total of - One percent, in my Latin "O-level".
WTF is the point of learning a Dead language I ask? Can I go into a public house and order "Two pints of bitter and a bag of plain nuts" in Latin?
the use of a noun substantive
Just wait till he shows us his ablative absolute!
Just wait till he shows us his ablative absolute!
This thread is doing my head in...
A friend of mine is (or was) pretty good at French. He got me a copy of "Pythons on Pythons" (Monty Python members basically dissing each other) in Russian (which I can barely read anymore because the vocabulary is gone). He thought the title had two separate words, because he was completely unfamiliar with cases. It kind of shocked me. Anyway, once can ask whether there was "standard" Latin (nothing like Oxford English Dictionary) or whether we are stuck with haughty ancient sophisticates who could read and write just making a lot up as they went along. With all the subjunctive rules (in ancient Greek as well, which lacks punctuation and therefore requires all kinds of weird connector words) and such, one wonders whether people actually talked like that. The grammar is clearly a compendium of what ancient authors used--you don't know whether it's standard or whether some clown was in a completely separate tree. Also, the literature spans many centuries, and things change in that time (as English did).Sorry, I was away for this, but I've chatted with Baracus in PM.
For me, learning Latin was the best thing I did at school, it was excellent mental training, it gave - and still gives - me an understanding of the cultural roots of European civilisation for 2000 years, an important part of all 'the best that has been thought and known in the world'. it is a beautiful language with a magnificent literature (again, over 2000 years, it didn't begin or end with the Roman Empire by any means), and it has enabled me to get to grips with a good many languages - obviously Italian and Spanish, a lot of French, but it's also led me on to many others in the Indo-European family - and it (along with Greek) enables me to understand a great deal of scientific terminology, as well as the English of writers who themselves were brought up on Latin - i.e. most of them up to the early 20th century.
And if you're wanting a titulus, pop me a PM