#lingua latina
4/10: ante diem quartum Idus Apriles: Magna Mater, Ludi Megalenses
(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
4/9: ante diem quintum Idus Apriles: Ludi Megalenses(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
ofellilingus -a -um “licking the chops”
[ofella “chop” + -lingus“-licking”]
[ofella-+-lingo-] stems
[ofelli-+-lingo-]a becomes Connecting Vowel i
[ofellilingo-] new stem
[ofellilingus] nominative singular
4/8: ante diem sextum Idus Apriles: Ludi Megalenses
(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
Si constitutum amatorium inter nos habeamus, adiuvem ut ad materias aut gradus moliaris quotienscumque velis.
If we dated, I would help you grind for materials or levels whenever you wanted.
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Argentavis -is f.“Argentavis”
[argentum “silver” + avis“bird”]
[argento-+avi-] stems
[argenti-+avi-]o becomes Connecting Vowel i
[argent-+avi-]i disappears before a
[Argentavi-] new stem
[Argentavis] nominative singular
4/7: ante diem septimum Idus Apriles: Ludi Megalenses
(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
4/6: ante diem octavum Idus Apriles: Ludi Megalenses
(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
4/5: Nonae Apriles: Fortuna Publica, Ludi Megalenses
(From the Roman Calendar Reference Page at the Bestiaria Latina Blog.)
Guess who got into Cambridge on Monday!!
To do Classics! - the subject I love SO SO much… oh my gosh…
I finally did it, I finally made my dreams come true. I can finally release all the excitement and all the want that I made myself hold in and suppress because I didn’t want to tempt fate. And after my interview experience I wouldn’t even dare think about a future where I went to Cambridge. I was dealing with a lot of family issues at the time and my second interview was just a slow and painful death by Latin grammar, I remember sitting in silence for what felt like forever after logging off of that final zoom, just thinking I had thrown it all away over the ablative case. And I spent weeks thinking that. And I was wrong. And I have never been more happy to be wrong in my life.
“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”
Wait it’s a fucking WAR CRIME?!?! I mean that might not be 100% accurate but now I gotta know
holy crap, collective punishment is a war crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Collective_punishments
and according to the exact legal phrasing-
Noprotected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.
Power-move: accuse your teacher of a war crime using knowledge they supplied you with
Amo discipulos intelligentes.
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“Qui autem civium rationem dicunt habendam, externorum negant, ii dirimunt communem humani generis societatem; qua sublata beneficientia, liberalitas, bonitas, iustitia funditus tollitur.”—
Cicero
Those who claim that we must take care of our own citizens, and ignore foreigners, they break apart the universal harmony of humankind. And once that is gone, kindness, generosity, goodness, and justice are altogether destroyed.
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.
Classics Against Humanity (White Card)
[Fragment, untranslatable]
