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I've been translating Catullus, and I recently tried to write something myself in hendecasyllabics. It is deathly difficult, and I'm probably just stupid, but I couldn't write a single line. Have any of you ever done this? I'd like to see what you've done.
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*Sound of crickets chirping...*
*...in Latin*The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
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They sound the same in Latin (even in hendecasyllabics). Smart insects.Originally posted by DRoseDARs
*Sound of crickets chirping...*
*...in Latin*"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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*irpchay *irpchay *irpchay~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~Comment
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Are you sure it wouldn't be "Chirpus?"Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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Continuo ventis surgentibus, aut freta ponti
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Not in any form of Latin that I know...Originally posted by Cyclotron
Are you sure it wouldn't be "Chirpus?"~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~Comment
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My Latin level is quite high, though I would never dream of writing poetry myself. Good luck dude, you'll need it.
In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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The worst symptoms I've had were after reading & translating book IV of the Aeneid; whenever I read ordinary prose I caught myself trying to make it scan in hexameter.Comment
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did did taa did did taa
aaargh, the nightmares"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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Andra moi ennepe mousa, pollutropon hos malla polla... I can't believe I still remember this...Comment
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Markus hodie in Collosseo est.
Sed ubi est Cornelia?
Marus diu sedet et expectat.
Subito videt:
Ibi Cornelia stat!
Nunc Marcus gauted et vocat.
Et Cornelia gaudet et salutat.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!Comment
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If you want to talk about the problems of Latin... fine. But posting in another language... not allowed. We shall see how long this thread lasts...Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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@ Ming
Taking it all a bit too seriously?
Mingo moderatore omnes scriptores Apolytoniae magno cum timore vivent.
Marcum bonum administratorem esse constat.
Rah frater maior Mingi est, autem potestatem minorem habere videtur.
Ecthelium scriptorem optimum esse scimus.
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