num mater puerum in viam iactare amat?
I just took the easiest final ever. Seriously. So easy!
It was for Latin, and I kind of thought I was screwed because I haven't studied my voacb in literally WEEKS and vocab is where I always screw up. Vocab is literally why I'm taking Latin again--I didn't retain enough of it in THREE YEARS of high school Latin to be able to pass an exam to get me out of my language requirement. So I go in, and instead of very complex sentences with lots of different vocab, we have three pages of our "model latin sentences."
The professor gave us these a few weeks ago because he was afraid people were getting so hung up on vocab they were overlooking the grammar, which is what he was stressing. We'd do them every once in awhile and they made me extremely happy for three reasons: 1. They use the same words/phrases over and over again so you don't have to worry about obscure vocab; 2. I can do Latin grammar in my sleep; 3. The rest of the class often didn't pay close attention, thus watching them try to translate was hilARious.
All of the sentences are slight variants of "mater puerum in viam iactat," which translates to "the mother throws the boy into the road." We'd get things like, "mater puerum in viam iactare potest" (the mother is able to throw the boy into the road) or "mater, iacta puerum in viam" (mother, throw the boy into the road) or "mater puerum in viam iactavit" (the mother will throw the boy into the road) and clearly the focus was figuring out the intricacies of the sentence, not what mater means.
So yeah. Three pages of sentences like that as a final exam. I was done in fifteen minutes. It was BLISSFUL.
And, it gives me extra time to study for tonight's science exam, which will be less blissful, as I've really learned very little in Oceanography.
It was for Latin, and I kind of thought I was screwed because I haven't studied my voacb in literally WEEKS and vocab is where I always screw up. Vocab is literally why I'm taking Latin again--I didn't retain enough of it in THREE YEARS of high school Latin to be able to pass an exam to get me out of my language requirement. So I go in, and instead of very complex sentences with lots of different vocab, we have three pages of our "model latin sentences."
The professor gave us these a few weeks ago because he was afraid people were getting so hung up on vocab they were overlooking the grammar, which is what he was stressing. We'd do them every once in awhile and they made me extremely happy for three reasons: 1. They use the same words/phrases over and over again so you don't have to worry about obscure vocab; 2. I can do Latin grammar in my sleep; 3. The rest of the class often didn't pay close attention, thus watching them try to translate was hilARious.
All of the sentences are slight variants of "mater puerum in viam iactat," which translates to "the mother throws the boy into the road." We'd get things like, "mater puerum in viam iactare potest" (the mother is able to throw the boy into the road) or "mater, iacta puerum in viam" (mother, throw the boy into the road) or "mater puerum in viam iactavit" (the mother will throw the boy into the road) and clearly the focus was figuring out the intricacies of the sentence, not what mater means.
So yeah. Three pages of sentences like that as a final exam. I was done in fifteen minutes. It was BLISSFUL.
And, it gives me extra time to study for tonight's science exam, which will be less blissful, as I've really learned very little in Oceanography.