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Latin phrases I simply adore
“vivamus, moriendum est.” —let us live, since we must die
“ergo dum me diligis.” —so as long as you love me.
“alis volat propriis.” — she flies with her own wings
“aut inveniam guam aut faciam.” —I shall either find a way, or make one.
Archive of Luccerno N° 2
𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯, 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴.
Tifinagh mini lesson
So it has already been a while but I added some nice small lesson.
Then you might think, what does Perseus PRS has to do with it? Well, that's about time. I thought it was 29, sorry I have to make some calculation here but it turned out much higher and that is about altitude. Thankyou Perseus! So, let's move on to the alphabet from last time. Again, words are written and read from left to right and you say exactly what you write. No silent letters + no combi letters that make a sound.
First practise: So how do you write your name?
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Book Review
It feels so weird writing a review after so long without writing one. It feels as if I need to shape my writing skills again especially since I feel as if I lost my magic writing touch. But I guess it's never too late to start again am I right? And to start off my book reviewing return I decided to review a book that I actually finished a while ago but haven't reviewed yet and that is the world renowned Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, a classic in English literature. Although it is a very well known book loved by many, I just don't think it has this special place in my heart like Romeo and Juliet has.Romeo and Juliet just had this storyline that swayed me and I could picture the scenery of Verona better than I could picture Illyria. Maybe that's because I'm person living in the 21st century and barely to rarely use much Shakespearian (archaic) language. Or maybe it was just that it was because of the whole massive love triangle (if you would call it that considering there were so many relationships) between basically every single character i.e., Malvolio, Orsino, Olivia and Cesario (Viola) it was occasionally hard to keep up with. It was like trying to work out these complex maths equations and trying to work out the connections between everything. Not only that but it was also to do with the whole fact that it was a comedy and I could only understand a few things CURIO Will you go hunt, my lord? DUKE ORSINO What, Curio? CURIO The hart. DUKE ORSINO Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence! That instant was I turn'd into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me. This quote I did understand. Curio refers to Hart as in the male deer but Orsino thinks of this as heart as in emotions. Of course the play was filled with other puns but I felt like I didn't get the full experience of reading Twelfth Night because I couldn't pick up on them. Which is disappointing because I am a major bad pun advocate. All in all, Twelfth Night wasn't that bad but it didn't blow my mind either. It has seriously messed up character relationships that were hard to keep up with and also Shakespearian language that in this book was harder than Romeo and Juliet. I still intend to read more of Shakespeare's work (my goal is to read of his works) and hope to read Hamlet or Macbeth soon! ACTUAL RATING: 2.9 STARS
Many supporters, with the best intentions, will often claim that “Welsh is the oldest language in Europe” (or one of). I wish they wouldn’t say this, because it’s untrue. It’s worse than that, in fact, because it’s not even wrong, in the sense that the claim itself doesn’t make sense. It’s a bit like claiming that your family is older than someone else’s family. All families, and all languages, ultimately share a common ancestor, so really they’re all as old as each other. Throughout history, parts of one family dynasty or clan have gone on to start another, yet at the time nobody would have noticed the difference. It’s the sort of thing that you can only observe with hindsight (rather like the emergence of new families of species in biological evolution). In the same way, the point at which a modern language is said to have sufficiently developed from its predecessor is rather arbitrary, and an academic convenience more than anything else. [...] The distinction between two languages is political rather than scientific. Norwegian and Danish are classified as two separate languages even though they are much more similar than the versions of vernacular Arabic spoken in Mauritania and Oman, for example, which we merly call dialects. Again, my point is simply that these labels are mainly social constructs. I’m guessing that many of Europe’s languages claim to be among the continent’s “oldest”. Basque, famously, isn’t closely related to any other language in Europe and is said to be a survivor from the time before the Indo-Europeans arrived. Lithuanian, meanwhile, is sometimes called Europe’s most conservative language since it retains many ancient linguistic elements that others have long lost. Both, it may be conceded, would have a better claim to the “oldest language” title than Welsh, but it wouldn’t really be a linguistically meaningful thing to say in those cases either. You may, very reasonably, ask whether any of this really matters. But even if it were true (which it isn’t), I would also argue that it isn’t actually a particularly helpful point for the language’s supporters to be making. Do we really want to imply that our language is some sort of curious fossil? Emphasising Welsh’s so-called antiquity plays into the hands of those who seek to dismiss the language as unfit for the modern age.
Why Welsh makes a good point about the problem with “oldest language” claims that are often brought up in the context of language revitalization. (Although I will note that sign languages are a possible exception: they may inherit gestures that are as old as humanity as inspiration for some signs and some have roots in older sign languages, but other sign languages are genuinely very young.)
Everytime I see your title I read it as "svetly I temmy"
...pff knowing you im. not surprised. ya nerd.
The Native Language of Zemnoy Shar (Shar is the name of the planet, and an alternate form of Earth with a different history) is a broken amalgam mixture of mostly English with Russian moniker. Thus the strange names. The Old Language is a stronger Russian amalgam, but doesnt quite line up to that of what our world’s russian is anymore.
svetlyy i temnyy, or Светлый и темный, is a poor way to say Light and Dark, but rather than light or dark, the ‘light’ refers to light in color rather than actual light, as does the Dark refer to color shade rather than darkness.
in the Old Language of Shar, though, Светлый и темный would translate roughly as Light my Soul, where ‘light’ written in this way can also mean ‘burn’ changing the the sentence to ‘burn my soul’.
in the modern language of Shar, the fraze svetlyy i temnyy (suh-VET-ley ah tEM-en-ly) would sound Russin like a horribly butchered “Light and Dark” but to them is a phrase spoken between either two enemies to mean “a god shall burn you” or between a close relationship like a married couple or a parent and child and can mean “may a god lighten you”. Its very rude to say to an aquaintance as, because if its contrasting double meaning, the relationship must be firmly positive or negative to be used.
