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Thank you. That has a nice twist to it.
Hi, Thanks for the response.
Wow, I thought I had put the inflections in. Here is what I attemepted to do - I had Exertica as an imperative, sanctitas in the nominative (subject). 'Practice virtue!' Paccatum and stultus in the nominative, and faci...
I made an attempt to translate 'Practice virtue because sin makes you stupid', and I came up with 'Exercita sanctitas, cur paccatum stultus facit'. I mentioned this to my sister in an email (she has no interest in latin, I don't know how we got on...
I found the flashcards yesterday. Big THANK YOU! Having the vocabulary memorized before tackling the fable is a richer experience.
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- At 5:33pm on January 19, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said… - Hi Jeremy! I used to live in Oklahoma, not all that far from Wichita! I still teach for the Univ. of Oklahoma online, although I now live in North Carolina. I hope the materials here at the Ning can be useful in your studies - and for teaching your children!
About your motto... when I taught Latin at Berkeley, one of my students got a custom bumper sticker for her car: QUIDQUID - I thought that was hilarious. Valley-Girl-speak... it sounds even better in Latin than in English! :-)
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- Are you a Latin student? teacher?
- self study student, and teaching my children.
- Personal Latin motto?
- Exercita sanctitas, cur paccatum stultus facit
- Any Latin books you want to recommend...?
- English Grammar for Students of Latin - an excellent guide for those of us who rarely think about English Grammar.
I am using Latina Christina for the kids,
Latin Made Simple for myself, with a dash of Latin Grammer and Lingua Latina.
- Anything else you want to say...?
- I've been wanting to learn latin for years, and have taken on the task of teaching it to my children so that we both learn it and to keep us motivated. I see it as way to promote good thinking as well as connecting us to our past.
My original motto was 'quid?' because I couldn't think of what else to put. I have since attempted to translate 'Practice virtue, because sin makes you stupid'.
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I made an attempt to translate 'Practice virtue because sin makes you stupid', and I came up with 'Exercita sanctitas, cur paccatum stultus facit'. I mentioned this to my sister in an email (she has no interest in latin, I don't know how we got on the subject) and she replied with 'Meditor rectum quoniam sin planto vos bardus'. I tried my hand at translating, but I get;
'Contemplating the good since, but if, I make you stupid'.
Am I even close?
'Contemplating the good since, but if, I make you stupid'.
Am I even close?
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 2:11pm — 5 Comments
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