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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
"If you can, then do. If you cannot, then find a way so you can."
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2009-12-08, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Hah. I dropped Latin. That was more to do with the class and teacher being a rutting JOKE than anything else, but still.
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2009-12-08, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-08, 06:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
In concilio Scythiae, Latina relinquit te!
As the other fella mentioned, there is a contemporary church Latin pronunciation, and there is also an academically reconstructed classical pronunciation.
Still, the discourse of Latin studies is literary. It's totally ridiculous to make any oral component, in my opinion, especially with that much weight.Last edited by Kneenibble; 2009-12-08 at 06:54 PM.
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2009-12-08, 06:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Why would you ever. My grasp of Latin grammar and structure was excellent when I took it (I was expressly forbidden from participating in class sight-reading a couple of times because I read too quickly to allow the other kids a chance ), but I could never translate aurally/orally. It processes differently. Seriously, 90% of your grade? That's not even remotely approaching fair unless oral translation was all you practiced, and, seriously, why would you? The only place Latin's spoken these days is in the Catholic church (and not even universally), and church Latin is pronounced differently, anyway.
</Latin-student-raaaeeeegg>Eat Poop You Cat
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2009-12-08, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-08, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
As I said awhile ago on an RB thread, I failed several subjects.
We had a few tests a week ago.
I got 90-100% on them all.trill in da playground
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2009-12-08, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
GRRARR!!!
These LaTeX errors make little or no sense, and I need to have this presentation ready by friday.
I mean, seriously, "Missing number, treated as zero"? why would there be a number in the \end{frame} command? Or, for that matter, units, since that's the next error? And why do these same nonsensical errors come up several times each? What is \@xdblarg ?
I could go on, but you get the idea. These error messages seem to be talking about a file which is not the one I just compiled.
About 12 hours ago, I thought this was really neat. Now, I'm wondering if I should just give up and do it in Powerpoint instead..."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2009-12-08, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Congratulations Phase.
You've officially proven to me that I am in love with Nicole Sullivan, or at the very least her voice.
Her eternally reoccurring voice.
She shows up in just as many as my favourite shows as Phil Freaking LaMarr.
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2009-12-08, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Even Buzz Lightyear of Star Command? She was in that, too.
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2009-12-08, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
So my car window was replaced today for only $148.
Hell yeah.Avatar by Serpentine.
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2009-12-08, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
It's still inconvenient to pay for some idiot's damage, but that's not a bank-breaker, huh?
So I ordered this underwear whose colour is called "Persimmon Orange."
It arrives today, and on the bill the company mispelt it "Permission Orange," and I thought that's a bit cheeky, isn't it? If they have something to say to me, they should say it.
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2009-12-08, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
...The internet is a wonderful thing, in that it allows me to look up the color of Persimmons to know exactly what color you are referring to, and allows my curiosity to then lead me to finding out that persimmons are a slightly tart but sweet fruit with several species, but that the most common ones look like orange tomatoes.
Also, I often get them confused with pomegranate. Which I often misspell as pomegranite.
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2009-12-08, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-08, 10:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
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2009-12-09, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Another fun fact, to a non-native speaker of Russian, the word for "mother" and the word for "vulgarity" are nearly identical.
Mother = mat (mot)
Vulgarity = matj (same as above, but with a palatalized 't'. Since most of us speak a language that doesn't have a palatalization marker (in Russian, the "soft sign") it takes a lot of practice to be able to hear or pronounce the difference*.)
*This leads to a tangent story from when I was learning Russian. The Russian term for the soft sign is "myagkiy znak". In typically linguistic evolution, the "g" in myagkiy is often swallowed making the word sound more like myakiy when spoken. The Russian word for "with" is simply "c", pronounced as an "s". So, when asking for spelling of words, specifically "is this word spelled with a soft sign?" the question, applying proper declension is "c myagkim znakom?" which sounds a LOT like "smack 'im, snack 'im?"
Okay, that was a long way to go for a locality joke**. I apologize.
**You had to be there.Want to meet some of the most awesome people on the internet? Come to the Baltimore/DC Area RenFest Meetup 2012!
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2009-12-09, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Thank you. I'm glad you saw that subtext too.
I can't recommend a book, because the one I read it from was about 100 years old from my university's library, but I did find a site that has the text if you care to peruse it.
This site has a million medieval studies resources: step into Old English, then the Old English Poetry, Alphabetical Index, and finally Genesis A, B (it's just plain text without commentary or glossary though). It looks like there's some interesting articles in the Old English section too.
Pomegranates are delicious.
Persimmons only slightly less so. And not only are they nutritious, their namesake colour makes for sexyundiesskivvies.Last edited by Kneenibble; 2009-12-09 at 02:07 AM.
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2009-12-09, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Hunh, that's interesting. I wonder if there's a reason the two are similar, or if it's just a bizarre coincidence.
Continuing the lingual fun facts, here's one that's definitely not coincidental.
A Latin word for beautiful: bellum
A Latin word for ugly: foedus
A Latin word for war: bellum
A Latin word for treaty: foedus
The Romans were pretty big fans of that "war" thing.Eat Poop You Cat
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2009-12-09, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Hunh, that's interesting. I wonder if there's a reason the two are similar, or if it's just a bizarre coincidence.
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2009-12-09, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
STUPID TROLL!
Why doesn't he just go away!
ARGH.
It's enough that I have to delete his posts. I hope he doesn't realise that if he starts posting in the other forums, I can't do anything there. GO AWAY TROLL.
I am cross about a troll!BANG → !
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2009-12-09, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nah, I can't delete posts here (or CAN I?)
Another forum which I frequent. He's so irritating and I thought I'd share my irritation! Damn Good Times, no?BANG → !
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2009-12-09, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's simplifying the matter a bit, innit? Bellum for war is a corruption of the older form duellum. The root for ugly (which is too simplistic a gloss for the word, btw) is foed* but the root for treaty is foeder* with a contraction in the nominative form. :P It is a coincidence.
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Dogmantra: If you have the option "Approve by a moderator before posting", turn that on for your nuisance. It'll save your sanity.
Kneenibble: I don't know if I'm more titillated by the invoice or the etymology.
RPGSR4ME: I blame you for this second doubling of RB threads!Last edited by Quincunx; 2009-12-09 at 01:40 PM.
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Re: Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134
Well I'm just going to go on posting in 'dis thread till we reach 50.
Kids these days....Not even waiting till page 50.
Back in my day, there was always somebody who called dibs and we'd wait till page 50, sometimes even page 51!
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Looks like my thread is about to die. But once I become a master of the Black Arts nothing, not even the mods, can stop me from raising it as an undead abomination BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* hahahaha *cough* *sputters* HA