#latin is cool

[maxsix]

#snoops #i mean #seungcheol #choi seungcheol #scoups #seventeen #vernon #those jackets look cool in the mv #maxsixgif #this group is so lucky to have snoops in it #he and woozi and dk are such big flexes #everyone is important but #Primus inter pares #or something like that #latin is cool

[mvlewife]

yes bro, cubitum eamus

#francis abernathy #this sounded funnier in my head #richard papen #im a homosexual #latin is cool

[vintage-tigre]

#seduction #street style #street art #street fashion #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #latin girls #style #beauty #temptation #eroticism #modern love

[inaflashimagine]

i truly am excited for the numerous miguel o'hara fics flooding my feed, but as someone whose first language is spanish i have one plea:

please do not use google translate for writing sentences in spanish bc 90% of the time they will sound quite off

some recommended resources:

spanishdict

linguee

deepL

word reference is also handy for understanding the context behind certain phrases or words

or maybe a friend you know who speaks and writes spanish!!

if anyone else has suggestions please feel free to rb!

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Edit jun 7: shameless plug to read my Miguel O‘Hara x reader fic (latine reader) if you’re interested!

#i love the love miguel is getting and it's cool seeing writers branch out and try incorporating a language they might not be familiar with #but using the above resources will help with making the spanish in your fic flow better #i also might need to write another post on the latin lover stereotype bc phewww #that's for another day lol #a lil friendly psa from a tired latina lol #miguel o'hara fanfiction #miguel o'hara x reader #not sure if these are even the right tags? #discourse #just in case? #fanfic #there's a reason why the spanish teachers hated google translate LOL #man i also need to hop on the miguel o'hara fanfic train i'll get there

[bluelokk]

vote rin for bltv halloween special

#he'll sing potatoes and molasses. the latin version even just so he'd sound cool #blue lock #bllk #itoshi rin #itoshi sae #ft bachira funderberker n beatrisagi (?) #itoshi2 #:m #I DONT HAVE ART TAG #arts #i only drew one version of this everyday this month improving it bit by bit just so id have the ideal picture in my head #pretty proud of how this came out actually. huh! 🏌️ #will probably post the previous versions too lololol its so fun to compare them #dont repost. please ❤️🔪

[moonshinemagpie]

I forgive you for everything AI I take it all back give me the library of alexandria plsssss

EDIT:

Folks are saying there's a pay wall on the article so basically: There's this villa that's thought to have belonged to Julius Caesar's father-in-law, and it has multiple floors of a well-stocked library filled with scrolls that were scorched by the same Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii.

There's no way to safely unroll these scrolls, but since 1999 we've been examining them with infrared, x-rays, CT scans, and other methods that have helped us see the scrolls' ink without unrolling them. And now AI is showing the potential to decipher these scrolls even more.

Also, scholars apparently nickname these scrolls things like 'Banana Boy' and 'Fat Bastard,' even though they're sometimes revealed to be, like, The Odyssey or the Book of Leviticus.

I additionally learned that "papyrologist" is a possible job title to have.

Another thing that touches me is that we first found these scrolls in the 1700s and mostly had the foresight to keep them intact and preserved until we developed the tech to examine them safely.

Excerpt:

The first word to be found, announced on October 12th, was “porphyras”, which means “purple” in ancient Greek.

...

Many fragments turned out to belong to texts written by a Greek philosopher called Philodemus of Gadara. Until then, they had been known only from mentions in other works. (Cicero, though, was a fan of his poetry.)

...

Mr Friedman and Daniel Gross, another entrepreneur, launched the Vesuvius Challenge in March, with a prize fund of $250,000. Other tech-industry donors soon increased that to over $1m. To get the ball rolling, an initial challenge was posted on Kaggle, a website that hosts data-science contests, to improve the ink-detection model developed by Dr Parsons.

More than 1,200 teams entered. Many competed in subsequent challenges to improve the tools for ink detection and “segmentation”, as the process of transforming the 3d scans into 2d images of the scroll’s surface is known. Scrutinising segmented images from Banana Boy, Dr Handmer realised that the crackle pattern signified the presence of ink. Mr Farritor used this finding to fine-tune a machine-learning model to find more crackles, then used those crackles to further optimise his model, until eventually it revealed legible words.

Mr Nader used a different approach, starting with “unsupervised pretraining” on the segmented images, asking a machine-learning system to find whatever patterns it could, with no external hints. He tweaked the resulting model using the winning entries from the Kaggle ink-detection challenge. After seeing Mr Farritor’s early results, he applied this model to the same segment of Banana Boy, and found what appeared to be some letters. He then iterated, repeatedly refining his model using the found letters. Slowly but surely its ability to find more letters increased. All the results were assessed by papyrologists before the prizes were awarded.

No less important than the technology is the way the effort has been organised. It is, in effect, the application of the open-source software-development method, Mr Friedman’s area of expertise, to an archaeological puzzle. “It’s a unique collaboration between tech founders and academics to bring the past into the present using the tools of the future,” he says. Dr Seales reckons the spur of competition means the equivalent of ten years’ worth of research has been done in the past three months.

An active community of volunteers is now applying the new tools to the two scanned scrolls. Mr Friedman thinks there is a 75% chance that someone will claim the grand prize of $700,000, for identifying four separate passages of at least 140 characters, by the end of the year. “It’s a race now,” he says. “We will be reading entire books next year.”

Being able to read Banana Boy would indeed just be the beginning. Only a small fraction of Greek and Roman literature has survived into modern times. But if the hundreds of other scrolls recovered from the villa could be scanned and read using the same tools, it would dramatically expand the number of texts from antiquity. Dr Seales says he hopes the Herculaneum scrolls will contain “a completely new, previously unknown text”. Mr Friedman is hoping for one of the lost Homeric epic poems in particular.

Even more important, all this might in turn revive interest in excavating the villa more fully, says Mr Friedman. The existing scrolls were recovered from a single corner of what scholars believe is a much larger library spread across several floors. If so, it might contain thousands of scrolls in Greek and Latin.'

#this entire article is extremely cool and worth reading in its entirety btw #i tried to choose a sample paragraph but it's all really neat #me and my high school latin club would have thrown a party over this news #greek #latin #julius caesar #classics #ancient greece #archeology #ai #homer

[kilianromero]

El Jazz Mexicano de Tino Contreras

#vintage #illustration #cool #weekend #friday #vintage illustration #jazz music #jazz #mexico #music #musica #latin #album art #album cover #album

[quesadilla-day]

"draw your two biggest comfort characters as the steven meme" what on earth does this say about me 🤯

^the original^

^closeup^

#genshin impact #final fantasy #sephiroth #wanderer #scaramouche #both lab rats. both turn evil and slaughter an entire village. both float #both have very cool boss music with latin choir #both have problems with the word 'mother' #kunikuzushi the wanderer scaramouche 🤝 sephiroth #BOTH have that battle-loving coworker with the personality of a puppy #WOW! #they should be buds #if zack and ajax met it would be chaotic #oh yeah #and both scaramouche and sephiroth have that one scene where they laugh crazy #and frighten the protagonist #scaramouche: dottore! hahahhaha DOTTORE!!! #sephiroth: hehehehe.... my hometown? #wow. what if they met and fought to the death #OR became friends #OR both #😮

[vanillayoteart]

O'Malleyfied

"What do you mean I have been heavily influenced by Bryan Lee O'Malley's work?" I say, being heavily influenced by Bryan Lee O'Malley's work

#rain #coyote #scott pilgrim #style #Bryan Lee O'Malley #species #latin #learned what specific sub species of yote i am too #so thats cool

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Trying to transliterate Leara's name into Quenya, and it somehow becomes, uh,

Lëarra

Which basically means "You Sealion!"

And I'm just, "Oh yes, this is That Sealion Woman, and she can breathe fire, as all sealions do."

If Leara, for any reason at all, needed an actual Quenya or Sindarin name for any fun Elvish shenanigans, we'll just use Calairie/Calearil, which is "Light of the Sea" in Quenya and Sindarin, and what Leara actually means.

#I mean yes she uses vilya as her spy name but that's elrond's ring (ps elrond is my favorite i wanted you to know) #and elanor is her middle name and what she used in the blades but that's just a flower which yeah leara is big on roses #BUT ELANOR IS ALSO SAM'S DAUGHTER I CAN'T DO THAT #how did lin manuel miranda get on my likes playlist wth oh it's moana cool cool #anyway #coining a name like artanis felagund for a character has made me so twitchy that i have to do languages right now or not at all #ever look at aldmeris/altmeris and quenya and sindarin side by side and go 'huh there are a lot of crossover words what's up with that?' #BUT YOU KNOW IT'S BECAUSE TOLKIEN IS THE FATHER OF ELVISH AND ANY OTHER ELF LANGUAGE IS GOING TO BORROW #it's like uh oh he'd hate this comparison but it's like tolkien elvish is latin/greek and TES elvish is english #but yeah i brought maglor's name over into aldmeris so leara needed to be taken into quenya and sindarin #it's totally not because i'm still thinking of that hypothetical Skyrim/lotr leara/glorfindel fic #okay i am but it's even more pipedreamy than leara/astarion #keeping count is going to be 50+ chapters I am a COLLEGE STUDENT i am so tired please help me #I'm going to go make cookies in the air fryer now like an unhinged feral fey faerie child #which is what i am in case you were wondering which i note you WEREN'T #ahem #oc: leara roseblade #languages #mod post #BUT NO HOLD ON i don't know ANY D&D ELVISH WHATSOEVER but they told me astarion means little star and it's his childhood name #and i am like obviously because 'ion' means 'son of' in Sindarin and can easily become a diminutive suffix #i am dangerous around languages i can tell you where any cow is from just on the name alone its madness (is it? is it madness?) #okay now i'm done

[myinfluencerboyfriend]

IF I WAS A ZOMBIE, I'D NEVER EAT UR BRAIN!

I'D JUST WANT UR HEART! <3

taglist (PLEASE ASK TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED! i cannot look at your ass and read your mind! <3)

@horromcom @mouseship @wisp-herr @roseyjustice @fle4floves

@jocelynships @gible-love-nibles @vampiiric @kaibaspuppy @sparky3tears

@qilinkisser

#zombie au (?) idk if this is canon to the ship or not i just thought it would be fun and cool #any way. my silly boyfriend i love him a LOT!!!!! #kie's art #selfship #self ship #selfshipping #self shipper #selfshipper #self insert #s/i #self insert art #s/i art #bipoc selfship #latine selfship #autistic selfship #s/i: 🧪💜 #r: i need a doctor!

[zabberzim]

I can be your devil or your angle

#art #mashle #fanart #dot barrett #demon dot au #my art #I think I used Latin there but it’s only because I think Latin is a cool old language

[vintage-tigre]

#aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #70s style #70s aesthetic #latin america #lesbian #lbgt love #lbgtpride #south america

[eternallyfatedjadedspaded]

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt

"Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt" — (literary: "Fate leads the one who wants to let himself be guided, pulls the one who does not want to") A Latin phrase taken from the Epistles to Lucilius (107, 11, 5) by Seneca.

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own." — Saison d'Enfer, Nuit de l'Enfer (Night of Hell) (1874)

"It's a fitting punishment for a monster..." — The Wrath and the Dawn” by Renee Ahdieh

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love...” ―Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“There is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it.” — Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems (I love that it says "that wants" twice because it's for both of them on their feelings)

#like minds #nigel colbie #like minds 2006 #alex forbes #murderous intent #murderous intent 2006 #(the quote i used for this will def be used in the crossover. got it from my vault of saved things. SM work to still be done on that thing) #happy valentine's day #valentines day #chaotic academia #dark academia #gothic academia #Jackel #I love Latin #one thing about me #Latin #very cool to me #nigel colbie x alex forbes #chaotic gays #murder boyfriends #arthur rimbaud #franz kafka

[kafkasapartment]

Vince Guaraldi - Treat Street (Official Audio). Upbeat instrumental blend of Latin jazz, bossa nova and cool jazz.

#jazz #musik #music #latin jazz #dance #cool #musica #Youtube

[random-meme-bot]

Ok was anybody going to tell me YouTube can have multiple official dubs of a video and just force you into the one more similar to your system language without letting you see the others.

Or was I just supposed to find out while trying to watch "The amazing Digital Circus" in English.

#the amazing digital circus #YouTube #I was so confused because I knew there had to be an English dub I've seen it on tumblr #But every time I clicked on the official video with the English title it redirected me to an identical video English comment section and all #except is from the latin American version of the channel and the entire video is dubbed #which is cool don't get me wrong‚ glad we have official dubs #I just wanted to see it with the original voices #Ended up changing the system language just for this