h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you can speak enough Latin for conversation then talk here.

The Language Thing (Kat)

Incipendam sum hunc conversum sentio, sic sum.

I feel that I ought to begin this conversation, so I am.

EMR

Salve!

Hello!


katkodl

Salve ad te! Dicisne Latina?

Hello to you! Do you speak Latin?

EMR

I don't.

I can say "Veritas in Caritate" which is our school motto and means "Truth In Love"...

Cat

I don’t speak Latin either . I know a few words like “puella” (girl), “puer” (boy) “dominus” (master), “domus” (house), “caput” (head)… And I think that “domus” is declined in a peculiar way, isn’t it?

Vale! (good-bye)

katkodl

katkodl, I just answered your question about 'domus', in perhaps more detail than was needed, on the teaching thread.

*heads for the teaching thread*

EMR, do you plan to give (regular) lessons for beginners?
How come you are that good in Latin?

katkodl

I'll try if I can. I'm in my third year of lessons, in school and with a tutor.

echo echo echo never mind. Keep on with the teaching, it's looking good

Gratias. Thanks. I'll find a fellow Latin speaker someday, I know I will. I've been trying to work in the potential of Latin conversation everywhere, like in my blurb on the Latin Wikipedia. Maybe someone will drop by...

Didn't Joe do some latin? Unfortunately our Editor, Joe C, (actually, don't quote me on him still being THE editor, I get confused about our title-thingies...) is having rather a lot of truble getting to computers recently (or rather, for a few months) since his internet got taken away, but we certainly know he will return with his salad sandwhich! (or whatever kind of sandwhich people believed Kat had popped out for)



...I really don't think I'm making sense...

It's like having a personal joke with yourself...

Shutting up now.


Ok, so my original point was Joe knows a small - medium - large amount of latin and will return at some stage. Whether he will help is another matter entirely


Actually shutting up now...

Cat

avete! Ego Cthulhu sum, rex Balwynitorum. Linguam Latinum per tres annum ad academiam studui. oso poese initio, nihilominus tandem Propertius auctor gratus meus erat. Nunc, ob neglegentem, compositio mea laboriosa parva est! nihilominus (illud verbum amo!) hac opportuniate tractare certe fruar!

Greetings! I am Cthulhu, King of Balwyniti. I studied Latin for three years at University. In the beginning I hated poetry, but eventually my favourite author was Propertius. Now, as a result of neglect, my composition is a little slow. Nevertheless (I love that word!) I'll certainly enjoy this opportunity to practice!

Salve, Cthulhu! Echomikeromeo sum, quae translatientem in Latinam ut Sustinulamichaelaromaea, puto. Id est meum tertium annum Latinarum. Subiunctivum (?) didiceram. Alii amo discens de historia Romanarum et utor lingua mortua!

Hello, Cthulhu! I am echomikeromeo, which translates into Latin as sustinulamichaelaromaea, I think. It is my third year of Latin. I have been learning the subjunctive. I also like learning about Roman history and using a dead language!

Salve!
Quod agitis hodie?



Hello!
How are you doing today?


katkodl

Bene, et tu? Stella notionem bonam erat.



Good, and you? The star was a good idea.



Vocabulary used in this post that you may not know:

Stella, -ae, f. star (first declension)
Notio, -onis, f. idea (3rd declension - do you know 3rd?)
Bonus, -a, -um, adj. good

Imperfect (past tense) form of sum, esse:
eram (I was)
eras (You were)
erat (He/she/it was)
eramus (We were)
eratis (You were)
erant (They were)

Bene!



Good!

Scisne tertius declentionem? Nisi tum docendum sum ad te.



Do you know 3rd declension? If not I should teach it to you.

That second sentence used a very strange thing called the passive periphrastic. It's exceedingly confusing and so ignore it. It's used to say 'ought' or 'should'.

We had 3rd declension: frater (m.)

frater
fratris
fratri
fratrem
fratre


fratres
fratrum
fratribus
fratres
fratribus