#i should learn latin

[mogaihaze]

Could you make a flag for aural attraction to deeper voices? They can be fem-, masc-, neutral- sounding, and their agab and gender doesn't matter. Just attraction to deeper voices yknow?

I haven't seen any aural flags except yours soo.. /nf /pos

baby's first request... literally so true aural attraction community where you at

i thought it would be fitting if it was the aural flag with deeper colours, because, you know,,,,

i'm not too sure on names but i think submissaural would be nice since i'm preeetty sure "submissa voce" would be the latin phrase for in a low voice

#aural attraction #rinrincoins #rinrinorientations #rinrinreplies #request #i should learn latin #<- just a regular nerd passing by #submissaural #i guess

[vivitalks]

more adhd jason grace or die by my sword

#jason grace #heroes of olympus #pjo #riordanverse #is he a strong leader. yes. is he the most forgetful man you ever met. also yes #could he kill you with a lightning strike. yes. does he often get lost in his activity du jour and forget to sleep. ALSO YES #stuff #also side note - more dyslexic jason specifically struggling at chb #where everything is labeled in ancient greek for the greek demigods' ease of comprehension #this is a fic waiting to happen but like #jason being completely lost with every sign around camp because his latin wired brain can't read that shit #he doesnt say anything because he's like 'im the guest here i should just learn ancient greek' #easier said than done his brain Rebels against learning it he tries but none of it seems to stick #until someone notices how jason will just blank-stare the sign posted on the armory door that says 'closed for cleaning' #and it's written in english too but that doesn't help jason he's almost as bad at reading in english as he is in ancient greek #so he DEFINITELY cant read the smaller print that says 'do not enter under threat of being eaten by cleaning harpies' #and our man just walks right in and almost gets eaten lmao #and then nico or someone is like. hmm. has anyone considered that this roman dyslexic demigod just cant fucking read ancient greek lmao #cue a campwide project to add latin to all the signs #these tags are a runaway train i just want more adhd dyslexic jason grace that's all

[mango-peach-strawberry]

Oh yeah I never mentioned it here but the Spanish version of Uprising is so fun. They name drop all kinds of Greek mythology (off the top of my head I remember them mentioning: Morpheus, Olympus, Tartarus, nyphms, and other things) and the nicknames the characters give to one another are pretty different.

I was translating a bit of the Spanish version in the 25 Years discord for funsies and was pleasantly surprised by the changes made in the localization!

#mango’s rambles #kid icarus #ngl I’m very tempted to just straight up make full translations of each chapter #main issue is it’s eurpoean spanish as opposed to Latin American Spanish so I’m not used to it #and also I’m still learning Spanish haha maybe I’ll do this once I get back from my study abroad #i should be much better by then haha

[interconnectedmatrix]

How to do a Serenade?

[To impress a Filipino!MC, Solomon decides to practice serenading them in the language via his understanding and awkward practicing in front of the mirror.]

Solomon: "Kahit ako'y 'di mo pinapansin... hindi ako nagagalit sa 'yo"

[His hands are clenching, a serious expression on the mirror as the soundtrack plays on his DDD.]

Solomon: "Pagka't alam ko na ang iyong damdamin para sa 'kin...~"

[Running a hand through his hair.]

Solomon: "Hindi mo lang alam ang aking nadarama 'pag kapiling ka..."

[Dramatically looks at himself, lovestruck gaze.]

Solomon: "Honey...my love... so sweet"

Luke: "Simeon... is Solomon chanting a spell again?"

Simeon: [chuckles] "No. Far more than that."

Luke: "I'm scared. He's been gawking at the bathroom mirror for over 3 hours now."

Simeon: "Oh what people do for love."

English Translation of the Lyrics:

Even you ignore me, I'm not angry with you

Because I already know your feelings for me

But you just don't know what I feel when I'm with you

Honey, my love so sweet

This is so random omg 😭

#obey me shall we date #obey me #obey me solomon #solomon is a polyglot #he should be fo all the years he's lived #probably understands latin #so him learning Filipino for a Filo!MC won't be too out of bounds #what am i doing #polyglot solomon agenda ig?

[coquelicoq]

uh-oh! i finished the name of the rose. unfortunately it was very good. i would like to tell my friends and neighbors about it but i cannot on account of i'm not smart enough. i want everyone to read it but not because i recommended it to them, so i can't recommend it to anyone. i think it's very possible my sister would be obsessed with this book but equally possible she would tear it into little pieces and eat them fifty pages in and never trust my taste in literature ever again. i read the first page of the afterword and loved it so much i had to go lie down. i'll forget everything about this book except that it was a masterpiece. i will never read it again.

#saving the rest of the afterword for tomorrow as a little present for myself #what's wild to me is that this is apparently one of the bestselling books OF ALL TIME????? #it's 500 pages long and a HIGH percentage of those pages are about catholic politics in the 14th century... #that or the book of revelations. also there's a *lot* of untranslated latin just left in the middle of sentences #this book is fucking nuts. i adore it. nobody read it because of me though #books #my posts #the name of the rose #me every time i read a book: would my sister like this? should i give this to my sister? #which is some kind of love language #also i just looked up umberto eco and learned he translated exercices de style into italian... #i've never wanted to read italian more than at this moment

[solradguy]

Good morning I was going to make a post about how Granblue robbed us of yet ANOTHER big sword dragon man that could have had lizard eyes but doesn't (SOL BADGUY GUILTY GEAR STRIVE), but then I kept scrolling

They at least glow :) I'll take it

#textpost #Sol's eyes glow SOMETIMES in Strive. If you Heavy Mob and catch it in the right lighting on the right frame you can see his pupils #light up first before his eyes go entirely solid yellow. It's really cool actually #I learned about the perpetuity ring today after seeing the ring icon on my one friends' Azusa and googling it #You can marry them.... #SOMEHOW I do have exactly ONE perpetuity ring #I don't have Siegfried though lol I also STILL don't know his lore the entire way lmao #But I know Siegfried Nibelungenlied's lore and I can't imagine it being toooooo different from that #The other knights' lore seems to more or less align with their source material #Going to be so soooo so upset when I get to Gawain and it's not Sir Gawain & The Green Knight Gawain #(it won't be. it's never that gawain because honestly why tf would it be rofl there are so many other gawain stories) #It should be the Gawain from that Latin language story that has the functional recipe for Greek fire in it /s #(De Ortu Waluuanii Nepotis Arturi) #*opening granblue fantasy and pushing everyone else out of the way* Show Me The Knights

[brother-emperors]

hello! don't answer if you don't want to but i was wondering how many languages you speak? your sources and reads are so diverse!

English, Bisaya, Tagalog, and my ability to speak these is debatable: but I can read in French and Italian as well :)

#currently learning Japanese and Korean and at some point I want to get Chinese in there too #I can also do liturgical Latin which is always more useful than I expect it to be #ask tag #I know in my heart I should learn Spanish too….someday

[queerofthedagger]

a couple of days ago i finished the spanish duolingo course so after some back and forth, i started on french, and not to repeat myself but it really is wild how much you subconsciously keep of a language if you ever engaged with it at all. like. i had three years of french at school which was literally over a decade ago, but between that and my latin and spanish, it's just coming back SO easily. the language brain is just WILD. my most beloved

#*mine #mona rambles #oh roman languages we're really in it now #like the fluency in spanish and semi-solid grasp on latin definitely help #as does that languages just come somewhat easily to me #but still just?? so much i did 13 years ago in school is just coming back to me it's just insanely cool #it's a bit off but i should start considering what to do after french because anything after that will be a completely fresh start #maybe italian to finish my roman collection. but i also do really want to learn gaelic.. hm. we'll see #it'd technically be language number 5 then. maybe basque in celebration after all lmao <3 #(basque is excellent it's just complicated af because it shares barely to no resemblance to any other language) #ANYWAY. languages my most beloveds

[crocopiru]

math class in exactly 10 hours gonna kms

#its 3.30 am i should sleep cause i won't be able to wake up in the morning #I'll probably fail my latin test again #god i hate latin #and my latin teacher #i can't learn that language to save my life #THE GRAMMAR IS HELL #AND IT'S COMPLETELY USELESS I HATE IT #i won't have time for anything outside of school until next break in february #screaming rn

[alternis]

that poll abt life skills reminded me that when i talked to my brother for the first time in years recently he started the conversation with "salve! ... oh sorry ive been learning latin" and i responded with the ultimate 'ah fuck we really are siblings' of all time by saying "oh dont worry, ive been learning japanese"

#i tried learning latin at gcse but they only offered weekly after school lessons #and literally like one month into my course i broke* my ankle and couldnt get to the classroom lessons were held in. maybe... maybe #i should ALSO take duolingo latin on the side. for fun! a fun relaxing hobby #*(at that time we thought id broken my ankle but it was later discovered something much weirder had happened and maybe it never was broken?

[petiolata]

Public education went to the dogs when they stopped making Latin a required subject.

Bring back Latin you cowards!!!

#education #latin #language learning #public education #latin language #Yes I am just salty that I attended half a dozen or more high schools and only one had Latin as an option #i don't see why Latin should have gotten thrown out but History (propaganda indoctrination) class gets to stay 🙄 #op #personal

[akascow]

i think its so dumb that my highschool only had two language courses and one of them was latin. LATIN. THE DEAD LANGUAGE ?? WHY !!!

#and like a good majority of ppl took it too. jokes on them tho bc spanish was so much easier to learn #we literally just colored calendars and leanred colors our first year AHAHA #meanwhile latin kids are walking around with like 5 pages of new conjugates and words every week lmao #i barely retained any spanish knowledge from hs and i dont use it now but imagine losing 3-4 years learning latin for literally NOTHING #like congrats ? now u can read excorcisms i guess #this school was only ap and honors courses btw youd think theyd have a larger language selection but i digress #i wish there were more courses tho. also asl should be a course not just taught in college idk

[eisthenameofme]

I have managed to compel myself to work on homework in earnest but in doing so have accidentally made myself dangerously close to hyperfixating on the secret history again and I really want to reread it with some of the additional context about ancient Greek values etc in mind

#either way it will take fucking forever even without taking into consideration the other things I'm working on #because i would have go through all my classics course materials as well to make sure i have everything i want to analyse in mind #and then close read the secret history #and then i would probably end up writing like. essays about it. #and also im very interested in some other things to do with homers work that are making me wonder how doable it would be #to try tro rewrite tsh into dactylic hexameter. and im also learning latin so should i try to do that in Latin? #but I don't know enough latin for that yet. but also if i ever attempt to write it in that meter #would it be better to wait until i know more latin write it in that and then have a version I'd translated #from that into english? or the other way around? #i have a multitude of other books im supposed to be reading a fic I'm halfway through writing #a coffin im planning to build and a painting in working also. by the way #whoever's idea it was go give me better enough mental health i had energy to do things #must be regretting that decision now this is a trainwreck of way to many projects happening at once #AND i have to finish this essay #mypost

[touchlikethesun]

does anyone have any recs for learning latin??? my normal language learning strategies aren't gonna work for this one methinks

#i should have taken latin in high school smh #latin #languages #language learning

[polaraffect]

planning classes has me going "hehehe *kicking my feet*" but i know as soon as i actually have to attend those classes my brain is going to be like "😐😐😐"

#damien.txt #having a revival of a very specific academic fascination bc my brain decided that rereading if we were villains is a good idea #which is like. one of the main driving forces behind my interest in history & english #and now im like................. hehe shakespeare #to be fair. the plan was always to take shakespeare next semester. the plan has been to take the shakespeare class since i started undergra #because quite literally i have been interested in shakespeare since i was 11 so. this is a long term interest #but now my brain is like hehe...... what if....... shakespeare ma #BITCH. where did this come from. hello???? #first of all. do you know how many shakespeare ma programs exist in the world? like 4. #second. brain what. where is this coming from #and now it's trying to convince me of stupid things like 'you should try and learn latin again' #in what WORLD have i ever enjoyed learning latin (<- i have literally studied latin 3 seperate times in my life) #the answer is never. i have never enjoyed it. and i have hardly retained any of it #but ohhhhh boy the urge.... The Urges.... #this specific mood always comes up whenever i get back into dark academia stuff again bc i am predictable and not unique #and i always get back into dark academia when it starts to get cold outside bc it's like something awakens within me #that goes 'oh right. we like academia. also the aesthetic hits' and i go FUCK. YOU'RE RIGHT. #but also here i am. writing this tumblr text post instead of doing my actual academics. so. it's all fake anyways #oh! but im very hype abt this shakespeare class actually #bc i think we might have a performance project.... which probably im going to dread when i actually have to do it #but <3<3<3<3<3 i love performing shakespeare so much. it's so much fun to me. #said like a true theater kid fr but. truly and honestly i miss doing that the most from theatre. and i didn't even really get to do it much #mostly just when i got to pick monologues out to do in class in between performances and stuff like that #so. i am a little bit hype. to do that. hopefully it is actually fun and not a complete drag #okay okay im done ranting

[arthur-r]

emily wilson out here translating the iliad and i am once again wishing i knew how to read and translate ancient greek

#listen where there’s a will there’s a way but i just finished my degree audit and looks like i will only be able to manage a classics minor #with latin emphasis (unless i abandon latin for greek which i’m not going to do even though it pains me) #but i really want to make my own iliad someday…. #at this rate i’ll only ever end up making a queer prose adaptation and be criticized for projecting modern notions of sexuality onto a #completely different set of values and social understandings of homosexuality…. #(which. if anything there should be more gay people in the song of achilles. don’t be mean to me i promise i understand ancients) #anyway i might just have to make a book of poetry or a novel adaptation or whatever whatever but what if i want to learn the script #and painstakingly translate every single word through years and years of dedication. while also being a librarian as my main thing #shdhdhdf i’m never gonna be classics scholar enough to professionally translate. and if i were it would be latin. but i can dream…. #anyway i’m no longer failing my french class (have a 70% that should only be going up) but i’m still failing historical linguistics #my latin grade is great i’m acing it but my library science class is a D (which should be fixed in two days though — just needs more data) #so i am giving myself permission to sleep early tonight and go into class well rested for once. i’m not feeling well but that’s a constant #anyways if anyone reads the wilson iliad let me know!! i’m a fake fan of her work and haven’t read her odyssey (something about the iliad…. #there’s a brutality and a raw humanity to it that puts the odyssey at a lower priority to me) but im so freaking excited to read her iliad #i have to prioritize schoolwork but soon. i’ll have to ask my latin teacher about it tomorrow though she’s an iliad enjoyer #anyway good news i think i’ll be able to get a history major with certificates in digital studies and classical studies (the two genders….) #and graduate comfortably in four years with honors in the major. this is ignoring how i’m failing my classes. i promise i won’t be forever #anyways the point is: wilson’s iliad — i will read it as soon as possible and i’m very excited #also i checked out a book from the library called the lexicographers dilemma: the evolution of proper english from shakespeare to south park #but i haven’t had the chance to read it and soon it will be due…. college is evil i’m too busy learning things to learn other things!!!! #anyway if i do honors in the major then i’m excited to eventually earn credit from a capstone thesis which i would do on lexicography #throughout history with an emphasis on classification systems and basically peter mark roget #ok anyway. wandering all over the place but the point is. wilson’s iliad. very exciting. can’t wait to find the time #and eventually i will write an iliad adaptation of my own i will. just not a full translation shdhdf that’s an unrealistic goal #especially when again. my capstone project is going to be about taxonomy of ideas. ancient epics are secondary…. #anyway i hope everybody is doing well!! i am going to bed soon-ish but other than that i am around so lmk if you need anything #me. my post. mine. #college talk #delete later