#A level latin

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Exam Diary Day 7 - 14.06.22

No exams today which was nice, but still plenty of revision had to be done lol, but the warmer whether is definitely a nice change!

Today I:

Practised piano

Revised lines 156-187 of book 11 of the aeneid

Revised chapters 45-52 of the histories

Arranged some things for my gap year :)

Hopefully everyone else is enjoying the sunny weather if you have it and exams and end of year things are going OK :)

Currently stuck in my head: Bloom Bloom - The Boyz

#tryingtostudyblr #studyblr #langblr #am i a studyblr? #classics #studyspo #lawyerd #greek #classical greek #latin #study notes #heysaher #a level revision #alevelblr #alevel studyblr #a level 2022 #a levels #A level latin #A level greek #a levels 2022 #exam season #exams #exam szn

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[mari-reads]

no bc it baffles me that ugly Betty doesn’t have the fandom it deserves especially for the first season, it’s so good like has soooo much material. Maybe getting put on streaming can revive it bc it’s golden, the Suarez family are my heart 🥺

#like I watched the Mexican one growing up and it is so dear to me 😭 #and Betty and her family are so well done as a latin family like so many show today get it wrong #her sister selling herbalife kills me like that is Latine lower iceberg levels and this was 2006 #season one is so rich like I’ve heard the other season were during the writers strike but even one alone is worth the fandom #ugly betty #america ferrera

[latinotiktok]

#this tiktok is so funny to me. sorry #MY GOD....HE HAS REACHED CHAYANNE LEVELS OF LOVE IF HE HAS THE LATINE COMMUNITY DOING THIS..... #videos #flashing warning #flashing images

[layzeal]

i'd appreciate reblogs <3

#polls #latin america #THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN EATING AT ME #hope this doesnt come off as a latin america vs diaspora thing. it's not! #i just thought might be more interesting to put it this way #i'm making this poll because sometimes i'll see people from like... africa or asia refer to themselves as ''gringos'' #in the context of latin america #AND IT'S ALWASY SO WEIRD TO ME. it just doesn't feel like it fits #so like... do you use ''foreigner'' x ''gringo'' interchangably? #to me a gringo is anyone from europe/north america regardless of ethnicity. it's more of a cultural thing #but only if they carry very heavily that... european/NA mentality #so a lot of diaspora for example i wouldnt consider gringos #because they don't have that level of... hm how do i say #innocent ignorance #that can be either endearing or extremely annoying

[novuit]

I feel like a madman whenever I talk to someone about England and himself. I don't even act like it's a conspiracy theory, I just act as if England and England are actually and canonically two completely different characters yet are also the same characters if you get what I mean. I would literally write an essay (let alone a whole book) about Arthur Kirkland's psychology and character WITH sources as if I'm studying this character for a top grade.

#hetalia rambles #hws england #hetalia #I feel that asaeng potential #i should've taken up english language or psychology a level #if I wasn't so dead set in doing fine arts (and medieval history and latin)

[greekmythcomix]

I really want to make a T-shirt that just says ‘Cicero was right’

#sorry I love him #he’s so difficult #I taught a level Latin for the first time in 18 years yesterday and it was awesome #Cicero #ancient history #ancient literature #Roman history

[solarpunkani]

hot solarpunk take ive been thinking about off and on all day

i don't like joey santore/the crime pays botany doesn't guy.

i don't hate him. i just absolutely cannot sit through more than 5 minutes of his videos without getting fuckin dizzy.

also i know he's not the head of the 'if you don't know the latin names of everything in your garden if not your neighborhood if not your state then you're a hashtag fake native plant enthusiast' train but he's like lowkey the face of it for me so i get frustrated just hearing about the guy

#ani rambles #might delete later #like okay maybe mister santore is catching some fuckin strays out here but like #not all of us have the time or energy or fuckin brain capacity to memorize and perfectly ID every plant around us ever #and i frequently see posts that like lowkey shame people for not knowing latin names for things and like #its HARD. they have common names for a REASON #plant ID is HARD. not everyone has ultra megatron 5000 level pattern recognition like damn #i LOVE milkweed but if you held up a dogbane and a milkweed and told me to tell you which was which ill almost def get it wrong #if you hold up two MILKWEEDS and tell me to tell you which was which there's a 50 50 shot im gonna be wrong #like yeah sure encourage people to learn plant ID and latin names if they wanna but don't shame people like damn

[chiropteracupola]

be near to me...

[flintlock fortress is, as always, a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #there was a request for these two to kiss. and. well. they do that. #the reference for this particular kiss is a mumford and sons music video from 2013 (which gives you an idea of my taste at this time) #and! and! that poem is in fact taken from the vocabulary section of my latin textbook #everybody say thank you to chapter fourteen of the second edition of keller & russell's yale university learn to read latin! #('so emmothy what are you up to these days in midwestcollege classics studies?' 'perfectly sensible stuff yes yes') #likenesses Not great on this one (those two have certainly got Something going on with their faces that I cannot capture) #on-model Who. certainly not me. #but I am full of frame-it-on-the-wall levels of pride for this drawing!

[ava-does-dumbassery]

I’ve finished my lettuce myth descent into madness. Have an iceberg meme about it.

#One thing I really wanted to put on the fourth level #But didn’t have room for #Was ‘the birth of Athena but make there be sperm everywhere’ #Ava has thoughts #egyptian mythology #ancient egypt stuff #heru #djehuty #aset #sobek #the contendings of horus and set #The latin incident #Tw caps #Sutekh

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Exam Diary Day 6 - 13.06.22

Hi! I had two exams today so not my favourite, but I thi k they both went OK and it's the only time I have two in one day thankfully! French reading, writing and listening went pretty well aside from the technical issues with headphones, but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be so that was good and the translations were pretty good! Latin prose lit was also good, 20 mark question was a little open ended for me but it was good to have the freedom with it. Also don't think I ever appreciated how many death threats cicero can fit into one chapter....

Today I:

Revised all the cicero chapters

Read through some medea

Mostly just sat exams and had to rest after lol because my meds are still wrong and I get tired quick rip

I did have some very tasty rice for breakfast though which was good, overall a pretty solid day even if it was v tiring lol. I hope everyone else is doing OK and exams are going well and you're giving yourself rest!

Currently stuck in my head: Valkyrie - Oneus

#tryingtostudyblr #studyblr #langblr #am i a studyblr? #classics #studyspo #lawyerd #greek #classical greek #latin #study notes #a level revision #alevelblr #a level 2022 #alevel studyblr #A level latin #A level french #French #Hey saher #exam season #exam diary #exams #exam szn #cicero #I can't tell if I like or dislike cicero even still #It's been 2 years #I still have a potential degree to do though so I'll find out more!

[skitskatdacat63]

I translated seb's car names to Latin right? The next step of mental illness is to assign all the different Holy Roman Emperors' Latin mottos to drivers LMFAO

#for some reason i thought only the baroque guys had them #but nope! goes back pretty far. not sure how far yet but back until the 1500s at least #and idk?? its sick to me ig??? #its very funny to imagine them scribbling out different latin phrases and trying to choose which suits them #^ im not sure how they chose them id have research but thats my headcanon LOL #especially charles vi bcs he had diaries so all i can imagine is him filling up pages w different options #OH MY GLD ALSO #so charles v right. pretty prolific emperor i think #guess what his motto was??? 'plus ultra' 😭😭😭 oh my god #also some guy's was abt Caesar and i didnt look too closely but i like to think he was a history nerd sjkflg #but anwyays already have nando and seb's 🥰🥰 #god theyre like way too fitting it scares me #seb's 'through persistence and courage' especially #^ im gonna make a post abt that soon bcs in the last ep of the Brawn doc + #+ christian kept talking abt how seb never gave up hope for winning that wdc and its SOOOOOOOOO fitting its crazy #also nando's 'by love and fear' is just. yeah. (cant be assed to remember the Latin itself sorry) #but yeah idk lookign at them. i think irs be funny to assign them 😭 #not even 'which emperor is this f1 driver like' but 'which motto fits them' :D #the peak level of brainrot tbh #catie.rambling.txt

[lonesomedotmp3]

i miss learning latin so bad my latin teacher i'll never ever forget you and your passion even though you betrayed me so bad in the eleventh hour

#leaving for another school in my final two years... when you were going to be my slay a level shakespeare teacher and everything... #and i got an absolute nightmare woman instead. yet another reason post 16 was unbearable #also meant i couldn't do a level latin :( i let those stupid private school children win...

[ruggiezz]

Ruggie Bucchi you will always be famous

#please ruggie can you like #help me level you up? im trying to finish book 6 #im also really happy to see latin american twst fans interact with my blog #if you're latino you should interact #love you guys

[dawningfairytale]

"let rivers run wild or let them be damned" oh ok kiss me on the mouth then

#ride the cyclone #rtc #mischa bachinski #mischa rtc #like i can live without a ~love of my life~ or whatever #but not if other people flaunt this level of romance #as in that i want that #it's not a need it's a want but it's a dream #if anyone ever said this to me either i would propose or think they are proposing #which to be fair he is imagining their wedding #sO #i have never been so moved by poetry in my own tongue before #and that's on being a latin student and obsessed with eurovision

[cloudiness]

ughhh give me a weekly podcast by Carlos Sainz Jr, one weak it has to be in English, the next one in Italian and then the other one in Spanish. PLS!!!!!

#carlos sainz jr #p1 with matt & tommy #f1 #I love Carlos' confidence when he speaks another language #what I get from him a lot when it comes to English it's the use of latin based words #maybe I'm mistaken but that's a thing that also happens to me as someone who speaks a language similar to spanish #As learners we know that many latin based words are part of English as a language but #a lot of English teachers have told us during the years that those are 'less used words' #so we are taught to make an effort and avoid words that sound too similar to our native language if it exists another word to say smth #Tbh even years later I sometimes find myself trying to avoid those words because in my head i stil go 'it's probably not right' #but obviously Carlos just doesn't care anymore and has now reached such a level of fluency that #he has completely understood how he can use those words and he does it without even thinking about it #he just knows that those words are just as valid #that they require less effort because they are actually easier for us #and also make us sound more articulated and maybe a little bit smart #Like the use of 'deviated' in the podcast #it's just easier and it gives the right nuance #in italian one would easily say 'deviato' and in spanish 'desviado' so why make an effort and use something different like 'shifted'? #it's logical and it works just as well