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Quotes from my latin prof. part 10

“So last we were talking to Cupid-- and telling him what we thought of him.”

“I think ‘you little jerk’ works here. Or you can swear if you want. Like ‘why are you looking for new work, you little jackass’, that also sounds good.”

“Ahhh… this is when things get a little freaky.”

“And you can imagine that after saying ‘tooumpst’, I’d need a breath.”

“Well… put your vibe checks aside. Don’t… ick… Ovid’s… I don’t even know.”

“So when I go to Chick-Fil-A…”

“Oh my god, is that a cat? Sorry, that stressed me out there for a moment.”

*sings opera*

“You don’t get to vote because you have a cat. Anyone who has a cat doesn’t get to vote.”

“What do you do if you go to a cookie making party, and you see oatmeal and raisins on the counter? You leave, because that’s disgusting.”

“My boss would get really angry if he knew I said Hawaiian pizza is good. But that’s okay, because I like to upset him sometimes.”

“I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but this IS Ovid… this here is a sex joke.”

“No? You don’t care about Ovid’s feelings? well fine then."

“Who is all decked out in her long hair.”

“In whatever way you are nerdy, I am probably more nerdy.”

#latin nerd #funny quotes #latin language #linguistics

Any other latin people pronounce “aesthetic” like eye-sthetic because same

#latin #latin nerd #aesthetic #nerd #latin language #rome #pronounciation #yikes

Quotes from my latin professor that my friends thought were funny (class 1)

"Caesar has arrived. what does this mean? That caesar is done, or that we should run for our lives bc caesar is gonna kill us? Kinda both, right?"

"Now I'm going to take you to Ohio-- I would never take you to Ohio, that would be awful."

"We are going to be flying so high-- how high do airplanes fly?"("30,000 feet") "Thank you sam, we will fly at 30,000 feet."

"Some of you may have learned these in a different order, but that order is wrong bc my way is right."

"He said 'I used to do drugs'-- that's imperfect tense. He also said 'I still do drugs'. He's dead now-- don't do drugs."

"So like who has this dream, like me, where like o, s, t are just flying at you and you have to dodge them and its scary... hm..."

"And how do we do this? that's right, we have a dance! *waving his arms to either side* if you don't know this dance its going to be very hard to learn latin, sorry."

"And how do we change the tense? that's right-- let's go crazy... let's change the tense."

"Do you remember how to do this? its going to be a little hard to learn a second dance, but thankfully its similar to the first one. *waving arms* You Change The Vowel."

"And then Elizabeth will say... not to put you on the spot, but to put you RIGHT on the spot-- what will you say?... and then I'll go SHANE TRANSLATE THAT INTO ENGLISH!"

"That's a lot more words than funky."

#latin nerd #my friends thought this was funny and if u don't that's ur problem #linguistics #funny quotes

Knowing Latin is great because I come across fan fics named in Latin and I don’t even gotta go to Google Translate I just go ooooh I like what you did there

#for the record I’m nowhere near fluent #sometimes I gotta check myself with my dictionary #but it’s still fun to come across Latin in the wild #Latin nerd

I may not be actively taking Latin classes anymore but I have friends who are and I JUMP at the chance to help them study lmao

DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO QUIZ YOU ON VOCAB WHAT GRAMMAR ARE YOU LEARNING DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO SAY UH OH SPAGHETTI-OS IN LATIN I NEED MORE LATIN IN MY LIFEEE

#I think this is how I wound up as one of the first search results for Latin nerd lmao #I’ve accepted it #might be the greatest things I ever achieve honestly #latin nerd

I really and truly mean this with the best of intentions but I need a latin nerd and I searched "latin nerd" on tumblr and you were the first person to come up with so ... uh congrats? lol I was rewatching Unus Annus videos and was inspired to maybe do my own version but with writing (since I've been trying to practice for years now and have never actually gotten around to it) and thought it would be cool to give it a cool latin name if only for myself. I want it to be something like "words forgotten", "erased words", "dead words" or something to that effect and the only things I can find with a quick google search are google AI nonsense. ;-;

help? pls?

ideally it would be in the same two short word format as Unus Annus to like pay homage and all that but not necessary

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM THE FIRST RESULT FOR LATIN NERD ON TUMBLR.COM OH MY GOD 😭😭

Anyways prefacing this with in most cases latin is not short and succinct, it’s not as bad as German but words can get long and sentences can get longer, especially if you’re trying to compare to modern English. (There are cases where it’s elegantly short and simple but I’ve found those to be rare). Secondly I know nothing about Unnus Anus so I’m just going off the terms you mentioned.

Enjoy a list of translations below the cut!