Thursday will involve shenanigans

[Dadam]

O sibili, si ergo
fortibuses, in ero
o nobili, demis trux
vatis enim, causandux

 

[briantrumpet]

from my ancient school days...

latin is a language
as dead as dead can be
it killed the ancient romans
and now it's killing me

It does amuse me to wind up a very good linguist friend who considers classical Latin to be one of the best languages ever, to point out that even in when it was current, normal humans were using 'vulgar Latin' ('vulgar' = normal people) that did away with a lot of the pesky stuff about declension and conjugation to make it simpler (and more flexible, I suspect - I'd need to check on that). It's like the difference between French of the Académie Française and of normal French people: the two are diverging, simply because humans adapt language as they need to, not to follow arcane rules laid down by some divine authority.

tl;dr It was dying even when it was in its heyday.

 

[Dadam]

 

[sungod]

It does amuse me to wind up a very good linguist friend who considers classical Latin to be one of the best languages ever, to point out that even in when it was current, normal humans were using 'vulgar Latin' ('vulgar' = normal people) that did away with a lot of the pesky stuff about declension and conjugation to make it simpler (and more flexible, I suspect - I'd need to check on that). It's like the difference between French of the Académie Française and of normal French people: the two are diverging, simply because humans adapt language as they need to, not to follow arcane rules laid down by some divine authority.

tl;dr It was dying even when it was in its heyday.

i think the rebranding of the roman empire as the catholic church is what kept latin going, dragging along classical greek in it's wake

 

[Dadam]

i think the rebranding of the Western roman empire as the catholic church is what kept latin going, dragging along classical greek in it's wake

FTFY

 

[oxoman]

Afternoon all. Work completed till next wk, new apprenti has passed his first review somehow. I have threatened to screw his mobile to a wall if it doesn't stay in his pocket though. Weather is very very wet here.

 

[briantrumpet]

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Same linguist friend has a friend who was a live interpreter (at the UN, I think), and when dealing with German to English, he would be muttering "Verb please, verb please!!", as it's really difficult to start an English sentence without knowing what the action is, whereas German sometimes leaves it right to the end, with the meaning clarified by the case of the verb and inflexions of the nouns.

 

[Dadam]

Same linguist friend has a friend who was a live interpreter (at the UN, I think), and when dealing with German to English, he would be muttering "Verb please, verb please!!", as it's really difficult to start an English sentence without knowing what the action is, whereas German sometimes leaves it right to the end, with the meaning clarified by the case of the verb and inflexions of the nouns.

Yes I remember as I did German at school too; how similar it was to Latin. Verb often at the end, inflections for gender and case.