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Post by krue on Sept 12, 2008 8:38:16 GMT -5
How was your first week of school?
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Post by swordmaid on Sept 16, 2008 19:19:54 GMT -5
Pretty good.....English (Learn To Write The Novel Way) is coming along nicely, Biology is not too difficult (yet), Latin is getting a bit more complicated in the grammar department, but still enjoyable, History is fairly easy, I just have a tendency to forget half of what I just read. Algebra is..........not my favorite, but usually understandable. Most of the time.
How about you? ;D
Book, if you ever come back, I wanted to let you know the text up above is working.
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Post by krue on Sept 20, 2008 0:46:28 GMT -5
Latin? Really?
History is awesome! I'm a major fan of the subject.
Me? I'm still working in the ER...
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Post by swordmaid on Sept 24, 2008 18:48:13 GMT -5
Really. People always look at me kind of funny when I say I'm taking Latin.
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Post by krue on Sept 24, 2008 21:26:36 GMT -5
Can you blame them? It is, after all a dead language. It's not as if you can go down to your local 'Latin Restaurant' and order off the menu in the original language!
Although I read some interesting stories about Catholic chaplains being able to translate information with local priests during the Korean War.
...Hey! There's that history thing again!...
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Post by swordmaid on Sept 30, 2008 20:08:12 GMT -5
Tsk, the only Latin that is truly dead is the spoken. Written Latin is still lurking about all over the place.
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Post by krue on Oct 2, 2008 23:16:50 GMT -5
And me being a nurse! Yeah, we still have some Latin running around in my line of work!
...mostly Greek, though...
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 4, 2008 14:59:06 GMT -5
Hippocrates and what not?
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Post by krue on Oct 6, 2008 5:16:23 GMT -5
Yeah...pretty much...
Say, did you know that "Diabetes Mellitus" means "Honey Fountain" in Greek? Ancient Greek physicians used to taste ones urine in order to diagnose the disorder...nice...
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 6, 2008 16:19:35 GMT -5
Blech choke gag thbbtht phht groan.
No. I didn't know that. Between Aristotle, Whatsisface and all those other philosophers, the Greeks were pretty messed up. No wonder they fell.
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Post by krue on Oct 11, 2008 4:43:18 GMT -5
I think the Romans may have had something to do with that...
...of course, much of their culture was absorbed into the Roman empire...
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 11, 2008 16:15:24 GMT -5
Yes, but they were messed up morally and that led to their fall. Similar case with the Romans, I think. And the Incas, Mayans and pretty much all of those big civilizations.
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Post by krue on Oct 12, 2008 20:17:33 GMT -5
When you lose your moral compass, right and wrong start blurring. Society rips itself apart from the inside. Pretty sad, really. I still find the Romans fascinating.
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 13, 2008 20:39:01 GMT -5
Yes, interesting chaps. I like their language.
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Post by krue on Oct 13, 2008 20:52:11 GMT -5
That's right! You do the Latin thang...
Hinc nunc equitum conspictus por numerous unus.
...the syntax is all wrong, though...
That's all that I remember from high school.
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 14, 2008 20:05:52 GMT -5
Virtus tentamine gaudet.
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Post by krue on Oct 16, 2008 22:24:19 GMT -5
Exactly!
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 17, 2008 20:04:04 GMT -5
And, while you're at it, might as well carpe diem.
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Post by krue on Oct 21, 2008 1:41:27 GMT -5
Hmmm...I might even *caveat emptor*...if I get a chance!
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Post by swordmaid on Oct 21, 2008 22:35:24 GMT -5
And, as Rene Descartes/Cartesius says, cogito ergo sum. Or, as I say, narro fabulas quod sum.
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