#latin language
write a diary
literally
justwrite a diary, it has helped me sooo much and i dare say it has been the most developing thing i’ve done while learning french, nothing else compares
1. you’re exposed to the language daily
2. you quickly see which words are missing from your vocabulary
3. you learn to write about the things you think about a lot
4. learning to actually think in your target language
5. having to look up words and when reading the entry back a couple of days later you can’t even remember which words you didn’t know
6. going back to the earlier entries and seeing all the mistakes and knowing how much better you’ve become
7. when you’ve been writing for a few months and your target language becomes a natural way for expressing yourself
8. when you’ve been writing for a few months and you start seeing the diary writing as a way of self-expression and stressrelief, and the language learning aspect becomes natural and secondary
9. filling out a whole book using only your target language and physically seeing how much you’ve accomplished
Ita vero. Hic est exercitium optimum.
Yes, this is truly one of the best ways to practice. The more you practice writing and thinking in your target language, the more you’ll improve. It basically fills a similar role as having a conversation with someone in that language.
Gladiators fight in this mosaic from the Villa Borghese in Rome.
Gladiatores pugnant.
Guys, guys… new ask game
Tell me what Catullus would write about me were he given the reason, bonus points if you include what I did to make him write it.
Eheu, te nescio satis facere hunc.
Kanye Occidens - Pater Meas Distenne Manus
[Intro: Pastor T.L. Barrett / Chorus & Futurus]
Auctor solus es (auctor)
Auctor solus potes
Auctor solus es (auctor)
Auctor solus potes
Ohh, ohh, ohh, alter…
Nisi adulescens Metro credit sagittabo
[Pre-Chorus: Cuduli & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Chorus] Aurum mane, solus in mi mane mel
(Cui dico?)
Nihil non vult
(Vae, cui dico?)
Aurum mane, solus in mi mane mel
(Nisi tibi dicam)
Nihil non vult
(Nullum auxilium alterum scio, meas distenno manus)
[Chorus: Cuduli & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Chorus]
Volo esse liberatus, ego-o-o-o
(Cui dico?)
Volo esse liberatus, ego-o-o-o
(Vae, cui dico?)
Si umquam instigavi, apologeticus sum
(Nisi te dico)
Narra, qui sapere potest, ego-o-o-o
(Nullum auxilium alterum scio, meas distenno manus)
[Versus: Kanye Occidens & Kelly Price]
Nam si futuo hac lupam
Illaque culum albavit
Albator in mi tunica
Cogitabo culus
Debriabar ubi illam coibam
Adsumus in Tribeca
Illa vexabat si sinis
Illa vexabat si…
Nolo dicere
Nolo dicere
Nolo dicere nullam
Nolo dicere nullam
Omnia dicunt ullam
Anxiem si nullam dixere
Monete unde scio
Illa ullam debere videtur
Scis quod volumus
Volo excitare me
(Volo excitare me)
[Pre-Chorus: Cuduli & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Chorus & Kelly Price] Aurum mane, solus in mi mane mel
(Cui dico?)
Nihil non vult
(Vae, cui dico?)
Aurum mane, solus in mi mane mel
(Nisi tibi dicam)
Nihil non vult
(Nullum auxilium alterum scio, meas distenno manus)
[Chorus: Cuduli & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Chorus]
Volo esse liberatus, ego-o-o-o
(Cui dico?)
Volo esse liberatus, ego-o-o-o
(Vae, cui dico?)
Si umquam instigavi, apologeticus sum
(Nisi te dico)
Narra, qui sapere potest, ego-o-o-o
(Nullum auxilium alterum scio, meas distenno manus)
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[Intro: Pastor T.L. Barrett / Choir & Future] You’re the only power (power) You’re the only power that can You’re the only power (power) You’re the only power that can Ohh, ohh, ohh, other… If young Metro don’t trust you I’m gon’ shoot you
[Pre-Chorus: Kid Cudi & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Choir] Beautiful mornin’, you’re the sun in my mornin’, babe Who can I turn to? Nothin’ unwanted After all, who can I turn to? Beautiful mornin’, you’re the sun in my mornin’, babe If I don’t turn to you Nothin’ unwanted No other help I know, I stretch my hands [Chorus: Kanye West & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Choir] I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na Who can I turn to? I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na After all, who can I turn to? If I ever instigated, I am sorry If I don’t turn to you Tell me who in here could relate, I-I-I No other help I know, I stretch my hands [Verse: Kanye West & Kelly Price] Now, if I fuck this model And she just bleached her asshole And I get bleach on my T-shirt I'ma feel like an asshole I was high when I met her We was down in Tribeca She’ll get under your skin if you let her She’ll get under your skin if you-uh I don’t even wanna talk about it I don’t even wanna talk about it I don’t even wanna say nothin' Everybody gon’ say somethin' I’d be worried if they said nothin' Remind me where I know you from She lookin’ like she owe you some'n You know just what we want I wanna wake up with you in my… I wanna wake up with you in my… [Pre-Chorus: Kid Cudi, Pastor T.L. Barrett / Choir & Kelly Price] Beautiful mornin’, you’re the sun in my mornin’, babe Who can I turn to? Beautiful mornin' Nothin’ unwanted After all, who can I turn to? Beautiful mornin’, you’re the sun in my mornin’, babe If I don’t turn to you Nothin’ unwanted No other help I know, I stretch my hands [Chorus: Kanye West & Pastor T.L. Barrett / Choir] I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na Who can I turn to? I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na After all, who can I turn to? If I ever instigated, I am sorry If I don’t turn to you Tell me who in here could relate, I-I-I No other help I know, I stretch my hands
Me: I want to know languages
Person: then study
Me: no study. Only know.
Rectus videtur.
Seems right.
sive mutata iuvenem figura ales in terris imitaris, almae filius Maiae, patiens vocari Caesaris ultor. Serus in caelum redeas diuque laetus intersis populo Quirini, neve te nostris vitiis iniquum ocior aura tollat; hic magnos potius triumphos, hic ames dici pater atque princeps, neu sinas Medos equitare inultos te duce, Caesar.
“Or having changed shape, do you winged one, son of nourishing Maia, imitate the young man on earth, called the unyielding avenger of Caesar? May you return to heaven at a late hour and be present for a long while with the people of Romulus, and may no swifter breeze take you, injured by our crimes. Here are rather great triumphs, here may you love to be pronounced father and first citizen, and, with you as general, not allow the unpunished Medes to ride, Caesar!” – Horace Odes1.2.41-52
Remember the time that Horace wrote that Octavian is really just Mercury in disguise??
utique nostra regio tam praesentibus plena est numinibus ut facilius possis deum quam hominem invenire. -
“Certainly our area is so full with public divinities that you can find a god more easily than a human being.” (Petronius’ Satyrica17)
nemo nostrum non peccat. homines sumus, non dei. -
“We all err; we are humans, not gods.” (Petronius’ Satyrica75)
ὁΧαμαιλέων -οντος / Chamaeleo -onis m.“Chameleon”
[χαμαί “on the ground” + λέων “lion”]
[χαμαί + λεοντ-] adverb and stem
[Χαμαιλεοντ-] new stem
[Χαμαιλέων] nominative singular
[Chamaeleo] Χαμαιλέων LatinizedNow I’m lion on the cold, hard ground!
latin word of the day: dulciorelocus, -a, -um, speaking with a sweet mouth, an epithet of Nestor
Optime! Itaque:
dulciorelocus -a -um “qui dulci ore loquitur”
[dulci ore “with a sweet mouth” + -locus (-loquus) “-speaking”]
[dulci ore + -loco-] phrase and stem
[dulciore + -loco-] as one word
[dulcioreloco-] new stem
[dulciorelocus] nominative singular
salgamō, -ēre, -uī, -itus – “to be a pickle”
- “salgamum, salgamī” - pickle + “-ō, -ēre, -uī, -itus” - second-conjugation verb endings
- →SALGAMO-+Ē- – stems
- →SALGAM-+Ē- – ending o in SALGAMO- disappears before Ē-
- →SALGAMĒ-–new stem implying “to be a pickle”
- = “salgamō, salgamēre, salgamuī, salgamitus” – second-conjugation denominative verb
oligopolygōnus, -a, -um - “low-poly”
- “ὀλίγος,ὀλίγη,ὀλίγον” - few, little + “πολύγωνον, πολυγώνου” - polygon
- – > [ ὀλιγο-] + [ πολυγωνο- ] – stems
- – > [ ὀλιγοπολυγωνο- ] – new stem
- – > [ ὀλιγοπολυγωνο- ] + [ ο- ] – with stem of adjectival suffix “-ος”
- – > [ ὀλιγοπολυγωνο- ] – new stem implying “few-polygoned”
- – > [ oligopolygōno- ] – Latinized stem
- = “oligopolygōnus,oligopolygōna, oligopolygōnum” – first-/second-declension adjective
Low-poly scene of mountains, trees, and a waterfall | Image source
everybody in the dark academia community be thinking latin is all romantic when in reality its crying over irregular verbs and wondering why the same verb means ‘wear’ and ‘wage war’
friendly reminder that the cambridge latin course is available online for free!!