#latin sentences

[finelythreadedsky]

idk why excerpts of pliny the elder aren't in more intro/intermediate latin curriculums, i just saw him expound on the degeneracy of hot drinks because, and i quote, "it must be noted that no other animal seeks out hot drinks, and thus that they are not natural"

#i mean i guess i do use tea for morally suspect purposes #like. give this stuff to some fifteen year olds reading their first full sentences of authentic latin! #more interesting and relatable than caesar at least #mine

[wtfduolingo]

Not sure if angry parrots were a real problem in ancient Rome.

(ID: Latin Duolingo phrase that translates to "You do not hit angry parrots.")

#latin #duolingo #so many sentences about the psittacos iratus

[cerise-on-top]

heyhey!! just wanted to say your works are amazing and i love them so so so SO much aagghhh!!

now onto the request— what if,, what if reader knew a ton of languages like nikolai does, and they call their s/o pet names in those languages. an example would be,, maybe if they knew french they would say 'mon chéri' or perhaps they picked up romanian at some point and would call them 'dragă'

the characters i have in mind are price, nik, alejandro, & rudy, if that's okay !! (´▽`)

sorry for the super long ask, lol :')

Hey there! Thank you, that makes me really happy to hear :D And don't worry about sending longer asks, I really don't mind ^^ Also, that request is really cute! I love reader speaking several languages and being a sweetheart in all of them :D

Price, Alejandro, Rodolfo and Nikolai with an S/O who Knows Many Languages

Price: I think he knows quite a few languages himself, being a captain in the SAS and all. Not nearly as many as Nikolai, but he probably knows a good three to four languages, so he likely wouldn’t be entirely clueless when you call him something along the lines of mon petit chou fleur. While he won’t understand every term of endearment you call him, it does warm his heart to hear you speak a language he doesn’t know. It flows off your tongue very nicely and he just loves listening to you. Depending on what kind of language it may be, even the profanities sound nice. Although whenever you want to get his attention, just to call him something in a language he doesn’t understand, he sort of expects it to be some cute pet name. Will always smile at you, even if you were to call him your albernes kleines Kaninchen. Retorts with a pet name in one of the languages he speaks. Sometimes he does feel the urge to learn a new language, just for you. Or maybe you could learn a new language together? Practice with each other and just have a good time overall? He might bring up the idea at some point.

Alejandro: Like Price, he probably knows a few languages himself. More than the average person, but not nearly as many as Nikolai. So probably three to four as well. However, because he knows Spanish there’s a good chance he can derive most words in a Romance language. Call him something along the lines of giliw and he’ll always retort with some embarrassing pet name in Spanish. Yes, he knows several languages himself, but that doesn’t mean he won’t almost always revert to Spanish anyway. Pretends that you’re using your languages against him and calls you a traitor. And, as is the rule in your household when you’ve betrayed him, you will be held accountable. Lots of chasing through the house. Will “interrogate” you to get you to tell him what you said. Call him a term of endearment in Spanish and you won’t ever hear the end of it. No matter how many times he hears you call him guapo, he always gets that goofy grin on his face. Might research embarrassing terms of endearment to use on you in any other language. And yes, his goal is to find a language you don’t speak. Once he’s found one? He’s not gonna let you live it down. He’s bested you, and that’s all he wanted.

Rodolfo: You’d actually have to call him by his name if you want his reaction since he usually just tends to block out people speaking a language he doesn’t know. Why bother trying to understand someone like that? It’s not like he’ll learn the language overnight anyway. Rodolfo knows about three languages, so not as many as Alejandro. But he knows English and Spanish, which means he can communicate in most places anyway. He thinks he knows enough languages since learning one takes roughly an eternity and he doesn’t have the time for that anyway. Call him Cục vàng and he’ll just look at you as though you’ve grown a second head. You’d have to tell him what it means and then he’ll smile. While he will always appreciate a good Hartlam, he might look at you confused until you tell him you love him. Might not always retort with a pet name of his own, but will mix it up among the languages he does know since he doesn’t wanna seem too stupid next to you. Will also sometimes look up new terms of endearment in languages he doesn’t know so he can surprise you, but might get a bit shy since he might botch the pronunciation a bit. But he tries, and that’s all that matters.

Nikolai: He canonically knows eight languages, so there’s a good chance he knows what you’re saying. Even when you’re saying something in a language he might not entirely know, he might be able to derive the word from a language he does know. Although he may love any pet name you give him, he especially loves any Russian ones since he’s very attached to his country and his native tongue. Goes absolutely wild whenever you call him radnoy. There’s just something so sweet about you calling him something nice in Russian, doesn’t even matter if you botch the pronunciation. Will always give you a hug and a kiss to your forehead since he will always be reminded of how much he loves you. But even a simple min søde skat will get him to smile, even if he has no idea what it means this time. Because of you he might be inspired to pick up some new languages along the way, maybe even ones you don’t know so you can get the same treatment he does with you. Whenever you speak a language he doesn’t know he gets heart eyes for you. You’re just so gorgeous, you’re just so very smart. However, at some point he will just start speaking Russian to you, even if you don’t know the language. He won’t say anything mean, he’ll just tell you how precious you are and how much he loves you.

#cod #cod x reader #john price #john price x reader #price x reader #alejandro vargas #alejandro vargas x reader #rodolfo parra #rodolfo parra x reader #cod nikolai #nikolai x reader #I wish I knew more languages than I actually do #I'd love to be at least trilingual. I suppose one of these days I shall learn another language #I've already started the same one twice but I never got too far since something always came inbetween #Oh what I'd give to be lovey dovey with someone in three languages #I wish I still knew Italian. I learned it in school but I never needed it again #I also had Latin. If you give me a dictionary and some time I could probably translate some sentences still #or maybe not. it's been three years now #but I suppose being cringe in German and my own dialect is just fine #I've always loved speaking my dialect to my best friend who only knows English #I've also always loved texting him in said dialect #“Your impossible to Google translate German” I love that guy so much he's so silly #I will never cease my silly dialect!! that's why there will be plenty of König to go around :-) I don't care. he speaks my dialect #gonna hit y'all with a good old Servas griaß di #König is my little Barbie doll: I make him do whatever I want #sorry this derailed into König again. I just love shaking and rotating him violently in my head ^^

[gojo-inabox]

looking for miguel content, some great finds so far but the amount of people who are just fetishizing him and making him the ‘latin lover' stereotype is so perplexing and odd bruh

#plus the really stiff and random spanish in sentences #i’m hispanic and my spanish is terrible but DEAR GOD #it’s giving ‘welcome to mi casa 🤓’ #ppl do this all the time w latin actors and characters #i love Miguel tho he’s fine as hell 🙏 #it’s not stinky poos fault fr #i just think some people don’t realize how it can come off #miguel o’hara

[thoodleoo]

really loving this NLE practice question. i too am wretched when i don't get to see horses

#tagamemnon #latin #it's a good sentence #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[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

[classics-cassandra]

Classical authors are all out here like: I’m going to write the most beautiful and powerful simile you’ve ever read :) and the minute you try to put it into another language it will disintegrate like wet paper and you’ll be left with a clunky piece of text that makes little sense

#reading ovid is so much fun! #campus erat campi #the Fabii river simile works so well in Latin #but in English it is Too Long to make a nice sentence #classics memes #ancient literature memes #tagamemnon #ancient greek #latin #ovid my belovid

[lizard-dumbass]

to marry Eda i presume

#the owl house #raeda #raine x eda #this post is stupid im so sorry #the latin duolingo sentence just made me think of them

[conspiracyofequals]

adam parrish so funny for his unethical academic weapon-ism. man is not #1 in ONE of his classes so he kills the teacher, blackmails his replacement into leaving town, dates the guy who's #1 and apparently (i haven't read the book) tells him that nooo it's okay if college is not for him haha. i respect the grind!

#yelling #of course it's not what happened but it is kind of what happened #unrealistic that ronan is good at latin btw that boy does not conjugate anything and would not know proper grammar if it hit him in the fac #face #his latin is like if you put english sentences through google translate #he wouldn't last a day in prépa #now adam on the other hand.......

[daily-whistlepaw]

daoly Whistlepaw until la becomes PoV day 1115

Four sublevels...

#warrior cats #whistlepaw #windclan #medicine cat apprentice #Yeah. I'm translating a dutch phrase into Latin ✨for funsies✨ (has an exam tomorrow) #It's not really the most complicated past of the sentence either. Not after dealing with three subjunctives #But it's four sublevels and thus a bit unwieldy to write down properly without it becoming a mess

[shivunin]

Ohhhhh oh how about "One talking to the other when they think they're asleep" for Maria and Fenris pretty please?

Thank you for the prompt! <3 I had to ponder this a bit, but I am happy with the results c:

("Sharing a bed" prompts here; I am still open c:)

(Also, please forgive my rusty Latin; it's been eight years since I've had to actually use it for anything more than a party trick. I've also fiddled with the translation below for flow. Apologies to the memory of Catullus)

Tevene/Latin:

Tuus sum: I am yours

Corpus animaque: Body and soul

Placideque quiescas: Rest well and peacefully

Fenris/Maria Hawke | 1,138 Words | No warnings

Corpus Animaque

"Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and the rumors of rather stern old men let us value all at just one penny! Suns may set and rise again; for us, when once the brief light has set, an eternal night must be slept. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred; then, when we have performed many thousands, we shall stir them into confusion, so that we might not know, and in order not to let any wicked person envy us, when he knows that our kisses number so many." ---Catullus 5*

“Say something in Tevene,” Hawke had murmured to him perhaps half an hour ago. 

Fenris, who was now well versed in what Hawke sounded like when she was trying to force herself to stay awake, had obliged. He’d taught her hello and goodbye, then described the room at length in disinterested tones, all the while allowing his voice to grow ever quieter. Maria slept deeply now, her cheek pillowed on her arm atop the pillow, and Fenris let his head rest on its side so he could watch her. 

It had been strange to speak the tongue of his birth with her—odd, like two halves of his life twining when he’d expected them to be forever as water and oil. There was something, though, in speaking to Maria when he knew she could not understand him. Fenris pondered this for a time, listening to the crackle of the fire at her hearth and the soft whistle of her sleeping breath. 

“Cor mea,” Fenris murmured after a moment: my heart, a simple enough endearment.

Hawke did not stir. She’d rested her hand near his shoulder, as she often did, and he’d obligingly twined his fingers with hers. Fenris set his other hand over both now, cradling her hand between his. 

There were things he ought to say to her. He knew that. But even now, when he was certain there would be no leaving her, words of love refused to slip easily from his lips. Not in the common tongue; not even in the one he’d spoken for most of his life. 

Not his own words; perhaps the words of others would come to him more easily. 

“Vivamus, mea Maria, atque amemus,” he murmured, feeling the pulse at her wrist where it pressed against his, “rumoresque senum severiorum onmes unius aestemimemus assis.”

Maria pulled her hair back in a red silk scarf when she slept. It prevented her hair from tangling too badly in the night and kept either of them from rolling onto her bounty of curls while they slept. Now, a small curl had snuck from its confines just below her ear, threatening to tickle the sensitive skin and wake her. Fenris lifted one hand and tucked it back with the rest, moving slowly and carefully. Hawke did not stir, for which he was grateful. There was more yet to say. 

“Soles occidere et redire possunt;” Fenris went on, “nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.” 

An eternal night indeed; they had, both of them, seen enough of death to last several lifetimes. Her pulse thrummed steadily against his own, as if in sweet answer to the unspoken undertone to the words. They were alive now, the two of them; whatever rest they might share tonight was not that long rest, but the blink of an eye in the span of their days.

There will be other nights, she’d told him once. He dwelled too heavily on dreadful possibilities now. While she still slept…let him finish this, at least. 

Fenris spoke the rest of the words—give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand—meaning each of them as he spoke. They were not his words; they were borrowed from someone he’d never met. Even so, they seemed intended for something like this: a room that held only the two of them, an unusually clear night in Kirkwall which showed the stars clearly through her bedroom window, and the gradually softening light from the fire that kept them warm. Such words should be exchanged in whispers and the touches of hands, intended only for a lover’s ears.

It felt wrong to end with the poem, but Fenris didn’t have to cast about for something to end with. There were other words he’d told her before, words he’d conveyed in a dozen different ways if not a hundred. He’d seen her concern when he’d said them the first time—I am yours—as if she was worried about why he might say that. As if she thought he’d somehow conflated her with those who would have owned him once.

The whole of it was too much to explain, too strange to say aloud: if I may at last choose what to do with my life, I choose to give it to you. I would give all of myself to you if I could, because you would never ask me to, because you have insisted on seeing me as a person from the first moment we met. 

Too formal. 

Too many possible hidden meanings, when he’d first said the words to her in those bruised days after that disastrous night together. Fenris had chosen the easiest ones instead of the explanation, willing to risk her concern in exchange for some level of understanding. 

It was easier now; he could say them with more affection, and she’d returned the words more than once. They meant something different when Hawke said them, but that had never bothered him. 

“Tuus sum,” Fenris told her now, the words feeling firmer in this language, more binding—though the weight of them was a comfortable one, words and bonds he’d chosen rather than ones that had been chosen for him. 

“Corpus animaque,” Fenris finished, his voice hardly more than a whisper, “placideque quiescas, cor mea.”

It seemed fitting, somehow, to dip his head and kiss her hand then. If he were less tired, he may have considered why such an implicit vow had felt necessary. Matters had passed tense in Kirkwall weeks ago and slid unstoppably toward some imminent danger. Fenris could not smooth her way; he could not fight her battles for her. 

But he could hold her hand in the night, and whisper to her of kisses and days to come. He could stay by her side as long as she would allow him. 

As long as there was strength in his arms, as long as he could stand with her, he believed he would see her safe. He had never been an optimist; if pressed, he would not wager on their odds. 

But Hawke—he believed in her. If anyone could navigate them out of this disaster, it was her.

“Mea cor,” he said one more time, setting her hand back over his chest with exquisite care. 

The time for words had passed. It was past time for rest. Fenris looked at Hawke once more before he closed his eyes, tracing the shadows of her face, the softness of her eyelids, the unfading smile lines on either side of her mouth. When he’d looked his fill for now (only for now; it could never be enough for forever, as he knew well), Fenris closed his eyes at last. 

It was much longer before his focus slipped from the steady pulse in her wrist and Fenris fell asleep at last.

*Base source for translation: Wikipedia

(I know, there are prettier versions elsewhere, but it's nearly one am and i don't want to look)

#maria hawke #fenris #fenhawke #my writing #da2 #hawke #i do love the idea of fenris finding it easier to be outwardly affectionate in tevene vs the common tongue #something about her not being able to understand him allowing him to say more than he otherwise would #i am going to keep thinking about this i can tell #is it crimes that i swapped lesbia with maria? maybe. but it still scans so #filed under: choices that would have made my latin professor shake her head in gentle confusion #now i know what you're thinking #and you're right: many of ovid's poems would fit them better #but i take exception with corinna being like the personification of poetry or w/e #at least catullus was writing his poems to a real woman even if she was married to someone else #(i know i know; you weren't thinking that but it's okay. ovid is an exceptional poet and i can non sum desultor amoris #or militat omnes amans with the best of them) #do you ever write a series of sentences and wonder if they come off as pretentious? hmm #not my intent; i just miss latin and the class i took that was just ovid translation #upon reflection i am deleting none of it; you will all just have to live with my opinions about the amores #thanks again for the prompt lol!! i hope it wasn't too much latin c: #shivunin scrivening

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

doctor who not on torrent site yet catastrope

#and disneyplus wont even load so i cant try to see if my sister has an account i can hack #back to the smut i guess #like i can focus now??? #i need to rewatch that #i was like in the Middle of the sex too i was like lemme just finish this sentence real quick #on my notities #i thought i wasnt gonna do cannibalism in this one #just. you know. Allude. missy eats her trophies sure thats not graphic thats. basically canon simm etc #but then yaz.............................um #yaz surprised me #its not Literally cannibalism its #romantic cannibalism #i guess its not cannibalism theyre not hte same species #its alienophagy #whats alien in latin

[butchdonne]

go to greek camp they said it'll be fun they said and now im sitting in front of a passage from the iliad with 4 different dictionaries and none of them tell me what this single crucial word means

#also this isn't even a specific scenario this is just what happens every sentence!! #my teacher said i was one of the best in the class but i swear that's not true #as far as i can tell im struggling more and getting through less than most of the others :| #it's fine just exhausting #and i prefer latin to greek too #im way better at it i enjoy it more and i know more about it #and i also like the history and literature more #pip squeaks #classics

[honorary-fool]

you can listen to songs over & over bc of a specific line/verse. but Watch Out

#og posts #i put Wine & Wheat - Madds Buckley on a few too many times recently & I keep occasionally repeating the verse where she has the Latin #sentences. makes the brain happy #but hey it cold be worse: not as bad as “and we've paaaiiid our duuuues” from that one newsies video becoming a vocal stim for like a solid #1-2 days during newsies practice for my previous school's spring show

[lycanthropicture]

will you tell me about syntax

this reads like a pickup line. are u trying to fuck over a conversation about sentence structure

#hehe yes i would love to tell you about syntax those were my favorite classes #i had a latin language background so i was really good with understanding case wrt word groupings and sentence structure #basically i was very good at building little sentence structure trees :) useless skill but made me feel smart

[coquelicoq]

Une petite houle, venue du large, imprimait au canot un léger roulis, et quelque crêtes de lames clapotaient à son avant. (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 2e partie, chapitre III)

today in sentences that would have made me weep quietly into my dictionary if i had read them a year ago before jules verne expanded my marine vocabulary by ~1700%.

#do u you know how long it took me to figure out 'lame' has a totally separate sea-related meaning #i was like a slat? a slat of what??????? #no it's just one of the three most common words for 'wave' #(the others being vague and flot(s)) #(not to mention houle of course. or remous) #(and onde but that's a different kind of wave) #now i see it and i'm like ouais ouais une lame nous tous l'avons vue #french #my posts #hey remember the first time i read a jules verne novel & was going crazy trying to figure out what 'allure' was in a nautical context #i was like i know allure means speed...but he is definitely not using it to mean speed #that's how they get you. all these normal words with normal meanings that have SPECIAL BONUS MEANINGS #as soon as you get on a boat 😩 but jules verne is like. you are going to learn these words if it kills me #and who am i to argue with a guy who really wants to teach me five different words for wave/swell? #i learned all the words for mud and manure because that was important to vicky hugo. it's the least i can do #now i'll tell you where i draw the line is learning all the names of the different species of fish. in french. #he's throwing like multiple paragraphs of run-on sentences per chapter at me that are just listing forms of marine life #i don't even know what these are in english so i'm just letting them wash over me #i've learned the ones that keep showing up over and over but most of them are so specialized they're not even in the dictionary #frenchified scientific latin ass names #very fun to pronounce but yeah i ain't committing these to long-term storage sorry