#roga me

[quomododragon]

My teacher bought a majesty palm for the classroom at the beginning of the year, so of course the first thing my ten-person IB Latin 2 class did was give it a formal naming ceremony. His name is Colosseum, his growth progress is marked on the side of the ac vent, and we ritually sacrificed a bottle of water to him at the first latin club meeting. This isn’t relevant to anything in any way, but it seems like your kind of shenanigan

This is 100% relevant to my interests and just made my day. I support Colosseum! Long may he prosper!

[quomododragon]

So I'm in highschool Latin and whenever our Latin teacher asks what case a noun is and no one can figure it out bc we're all stupid, he counts down from three then we all yell "probably ablative" and start clapping for ourselves Over 80% of the time it's actually ablative

Honestly, the ablative case is the junk drawer of the noun cases, so it’s a good guess!

[quomododragon]

My friend designed a shirt with the Nike swoop that says “Just Fac It” and I want to buy one so bad

Oh my God.

Where can I buy one??

[quomododragon]

Ahh, high school latin. I remember fondly watching Mean Girls in class and having to write an essay comparing the burn book to the works of catullus...

I just had this mental image of Catullus saying, “And on Wednesdays, we wear pink,” and my day is MADE.

[quomododragon]

Aww, how sweet! I’m getting hate mail! That’s when you know you’ve made it kids.

As for your, uh, ‘concern’... There’s a world of difference between asking me to look over a translation you’ve written and another to ask me to write a translation for you. I have a job, thank you. Plus another job. And grad school. It’s not an ‘idk’, it’s an ‘I don’t feel comfortable with/have the time for this’. As for corrections, I only make those when I’m confident in the correction, which only happens after I’ve done research to double-check. Which is rare. And... as far as I’m aware only when someone interacts with me first...? I mean, ‘constantly’? I don’t have the energy for that, because, again... job.

I just have one question though: if I’m ‘insufferable’ to you, why are you here? Is your life that boring?

[quomododragon]

My Latin was thirty years ago so I KNOW you weren't my teacher, but you and she would have gotten along famously. Our final involved a full-on dinner complete with couches and a roast pig. They wouldn't let us actually light the fire in the classroom, though, more's the pity.

*takes notes* couches and a roast pig, you say?

[quomododragon]

On the topic of Latin club t-shirts... Way back when I was in high school our teacher told us a Latin "yo mama" joke would have been "your mother sells vegetables." So naturally our shirts featured a cartoon I drew of Metella from Cambridge Latin holding one of those stadium concession boxes that go round your neck, full of vegetables.

I would so love to see that cartoon! Those shirts (and your teacher) sound amazing!!

[quomododragon]

RE: what do I do with my Latin now? -I learned Latin (and Ancient Greek) in middle school and throughout high school/college/present it made sciences, philosophy and various other classes much easier because so much is based on those languages. I almost never had to study because the meanings of words themselves are shortcuts when you understand them. I also appear a step ahead of others in ambiguous contexts, but I’m not -I just know how to breakdown language to my advantage and extrapolate.

This is very true! Latin is the gift that keeps on giving.