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Do I get a prize?

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That's four Kumar topics in a row, none of which in my opinion make a great deal of sense.

Is that a record? Does 'four in a row' get a prize?

Athon
 
Alas, no medal or prize, save to the one who can identify the poet whose style I imitate in my amateurish attempt at mockery:



Scribamus, mea comites, et ridamus,
nugulaeque Kumaris fatuiores
omnes nihil aestimemus drachmae!
Athones delectare et docere possunt;
Kumari nihil notoris est.
Nox est perpetua stultissimaque.

Da mi mille basia Earthborn LucyRque, diende centum
dien mille altera, dien secunda centum,
diende usque altera mille, diende centum;
dien, cum milia multa fecerimus
morar adulescente laetissimo.

 
neutrino_cannon said:

Scribamus, mea comites, et ridamus,
nugulaeque Kumaris fatuiores
omnes nihil aestimemus drachmae!
Athones delectare et docere possunt;
Kumari nihil notoris est.
Nox est perpetua stultissimaque.

Da mi mille basia Earthborn LucyRque, diende centum
dien mille altera, dien secunda centum,
diende usque altera mille, diende centum;
dien, cum milia multa fecerimus
morar adulescente laetissumo.
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That made me cry... *sob* :(
 
neutrino_cannon said:
:eek:

At what, my lack of meter or my wanton butchery of Catullus?
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Both. Free-form Latin is such a skill. And I know you shouldn't be cruel to Catulluses - FREE THE CATULLUSES!! Catullii??

(And I wondered why I couldn't set it to the music of "Stairway To Heaven" either...)
 
Plural is Catulli, it's a perfectly normal second declesion masculine name that happens to look like the word for "puppy".

Most of his work is in hendecasyllabic, like:

UU-uu-u-u-u

That just isn't enough syllables for:

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
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Which is

-U-UU--UU--U

That looks kind of like Lesser Sapphic, but once again it has too many syllables. I suppose it's closest to choliambic, but that's because you can twist that one any way you please.
 
neutrino_cannon said:
Plural is Catulli, it's a perfectly normal second declesion masculine name that happens to look like the word for "puppy".

Most of his work is in hendecasyllabic, like:

UU-uu-u-u-u

That just isn't enough syllables for:



Which is

-U-UU--UU--U

That looks kind of like Lesser Sapphic, but once again it has too many syllables. I suppose it's closest to choliambic, but that's because you can twist that one any way you please.
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I think I read all of this in a Lovecraft book once. They're all the names of Elder Gods, right?

Athon
(really 'Choliambic-God-of-the-Underworld'!)
 
Far more fearsome is Synaeresis, the dark God of occasional pronounciation of "i" as a consonant!
 
neutrino_cannon, I think I'm in love with you....

Tell me more about language... ooooooooo..... :D
 
Kiless said:
neutrino_cannon, I think I'm in love with you....

Tell me more about language... ooooooooo..... :D
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Aha! At last, after almost three years of trying to memorize declensions and irregular verbs, I knew that someone with a sexy Faye avatar would take an interest! Now I shall bask in the adoration of swooning women at the mere mention of phrases like "conjugation", "semi-deponent verb", and "accusative of extent of time"!

Hmm... I suddenly wonder if it would be worth learning Greek.
 
neutrino_cannon said:
Aha! At last, after almost three years of trying to memorize declensions and irregular verbs, I knew that someone with a sexy Faye avatar would take an interest! Now I shall bask in the adoration of swooning women at the mere mention of phrases like "conjugation", "semi-deponent verb", and "accusative of extent of time"!

Hmm... I suddenly wonder if it would be worth learning Greek.
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Gasp.... gasp... more! Oh, more!! Don't stop, don't stop!!!(sounds of gunfire and rhythmical thwacking of the bedhead against the wall....) :D
 
TillEulenspiegel said:
Did Romans have a hard time learning latin?


I like the Latin lesson scene in life of Brian, a Monty Phython FILM.
The setting: Brian is spray painting graphitti on the Roman stocade...........

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-08.htm
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Brian wouldn't have been Roman, living off in the boonies of the Empire like that. I'm not sure how eager they were to learn Latin and other bits of Roman culture in that particular, worthless and misbehaved bit of real estate. Give it back to the Parthians I say.

"Dative (Centurion draws sword), no, not the dative!"

There's supposed to be some Roman comedy about a Greek who gets rich and a good deal of the comedy is in his broken Latin, into which he mixes Greek grammar and such. Any jokes you hear about spanglish, therefore, show that there haven't been any new ideas in a few thousand years as far as comedy goes (excepting Monty Python, of course).

In one of my least favorite Catullus poems, the one now designated Catullus 4, Doctus gives voice to a ship that's seen it all (and is thus very dull), and is about to be decomissioned. The ship slips into Latin with Greek grammar on occasion, presumably because it hails from a Greek-controlled shore.

Roman Boys in the upper class would have learned Latin in school, possibly by memorizing parts of the Aeneid and getting their grammar from there. Nothing like getting those parts of speech ingrained along with some nationalistic propaganda. Of course, they would have also learned Greek, so I wonder if it occurred to any of them how the Aenied is next to being copyright infringement upon the Odessey.

I would continue, but I’m afraid of getting shot by the crazy woman having a chat with Mrs. Palm and her daughters (or something like that).
 
neutrino_cannon said:
There's supposed to be some Roman comedy about a Greek who gets rich and a good deal of the comedy is in his broken Latin, into which he mixes Greek grammar and such. Any jokes you hear about spanglish, therefore, show that there haven't been any new ideas in a few thousand years as far as comedy goes (excepting Monty Python, of course).
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Have you seen a production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum? A university production I saw out here was co-hosted by the Drama and Classics Dept and they did fantastic 'in-jokes' throughout. And a nice program for later perusal that explained it for those who didn't attend the Latin classes.

neutrino_cannon said:

...(excepting Monty Python, of course).
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Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
 
Kiless said:
Have you seen a production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum? A university production I saw out here was co-hosted by the Drama and Classics Dept and they did fantastic 'in-jokes' throughout. And a nice program for later perusal that explained it for those who didn't attend the Latin classes.
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Alas, I blew my chance to see just that a few weeks ago. By Castor and Pollux!
 
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