OFFICIAL: Name of our second city!

[Gilgamensch]

Or maybe Locutus might want to indicate that he is gonna switch gender?????????????

So a kind of early warning ?

[Locutus]

I liked Locutusia

And I accused IW of speaking poor Latin...

Erm, Roman colonia names are almost always female: Colonia Augusta, Colonia Claudia, Colonia Iulia, Colonia Patricia, Colonia Victrix, etc. All named after male Emperors. Don't ask me why, but it was common practice in those days...

Another way to shorten the full name would be Colonia Locuta, which is IMO better than just Locuta (which is just weird for obvious reasons )

[Tamerlin]

Locutus, how many languages are you speaking or can you read?

You are a real well of knowledge, how do you find the time to work, mod, play CtP1 and Ctp2 (single player, MP and DG), moderate, socialize, watch Soccer (eek! You can not imagine how it is difficult for me to write this word), play (and mod?) Birth of the Federation and still improve your culture?

How many are you?

Are you part of a hive mind or an advanced artificial construct?

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
How many are you?

At present, the Collective consists of 13549868629304 drones We speak 26259920 languages, about of dozen of which are Terran in origin

Locutus, how many languages are you speaking or can you read?

Seriously, I speak Twents, Dutch, English and German more or less fluently (more in case of Dutch, less in case of German ), can understand and to a limited extend express myself in Latin, French and Spanish and Dutch dialects other than Twents (the Low Countries have an incredible variety in dialects) can with some effort more or less read Esperanto, (ancient) Greek, Italian, Portuguese, etc. I'm currently learning Turkish, while Arab, Russian and Mandarin are on my to-do list.

You are a real well of knowledge, how do you find the time to work, mod, play CtP1 and Ctp2 (single player, MP and DG), moderate, socialize, watch Soccer (eek! You can not imagine how it is difficult for me to write this word), play (and mod?) Birth of the Federation and still improve your culture?

Gee, if that was all I did, I might actually manage to finish my to-do list one day

On a side note: it's football, not that horrible s-word!

[Immortal Wombat]

It's a verb (as well, I guess). Its the historic or something. "Locutus" can be translated as "having spoken".

But yes, my latin is still terrible, and I'm sure I got even the past historic plural conjugation of it wrong anyway.

[Locutus]

Yes it is, in combination with esse, then it forms the indicativus praesentis of loqui, which indeed translates as 'to have spoken'. 'Locutus sum' is a verb, 'Locutus' is not. Using 'Locutamus' in Latin to denote 'We have spoken' is like using 'He bathtubs every day' in English to denote 'He takes a bath every day'.

Granted, 'locut-' is indeed the perfect stem for loqui and thus theoretically a verb. However, loqui is a verbum deponentium: a verb which only exists in passive form but still has an active meaning. And since the passive form always uses the auxiliary verb esse (in active or passive form), that kind of limits the options

So Locutus can only be used as a verbal noun, which is still a noun and gets -us/-a/-um or variants as ending, never -o/-amus/-i/-imus or whatever...

But you got the conjugation just fine, although it struck me as odd to use the past tense, present tense (as I did) would have made more sense ('we have spoken' vs 'we had spoken') - I'm not gone yet

Just be glad that English has such mindblowingly little variation when it comes to verbs

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Locutus
At present, the Collective consists of 13549868629304 drones We speak 26259920 languages, about of dozen of which are Terran in origin

Seriously, I speak Twents, Dutch, English and German more or less fluently (more in case of Dutch, less in case of German ), can understand and to a limited extend express myself in Latin, French and Spanish and Dutch dialects other than Twents (the Low Countries have an incredible variety in dialects) can with some effort more or less read Esperanto, (ancient) Greek, Italian, Portuguese, etc. I'm currently learning Turkish, while Arab, Russian and Mandarin are on my to-do list.

That's all!

Are you actually telling us you have been cut off from the Collective?

Gee, if that was all I did, I might actually manage to finish my to-do list one day

When do you sleep?

On a side note: it's football, not that horrible s-word!

You know F******* and S***** (sorry I can't...) are the same and our american friends might be confused if we use the f-word instead of the s-word.

BTW Locutus, as far as I know Birth of the Federation has never been distributed in France and I know nothing of what seems to be a great game. Could you tell me more about it (why not in the Lemuria Café as this is off-topic)?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Originally posted by Locutus

... something like Colonia Locuta Tubantia ...

so it would be cologne in 2000 years, or as it is called here, kölle

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

honestly, i like kartoffelpuffer, but rösti would be fine as well

btw: abstain

[HuangShang]

yeah use Loc's name but i hope it'll be a variant

[HuangShang]

yeah use Loc's name but i hope it'll be a variant

[Immortal Wombat]

Just be glad that English has such mindblowingly little variation when it comes to verbs

Every day

Historic just seems more epic somehow.

Ok, in truth, I used it because it was the first thing that came to mind, I wasn't actually trying to conjugate it properly in any way at all...