Comments | byelka58: A memorable title.

byelka58

A memorable title.

Aug 10, 2005 12:57

Can I possibly be updating again so soon? Shouldn't I wait at least three weeks, out of a sense of tradition? Yes, and arguably also yes, but more than ever I feel that I must update regularly lest all be lost. So sure, it's only been two days, but as you all know, I am very, very wordy. In two days I can accumulate an eternity's worth of, uhh ( Read more... )

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byelka58 August 11 2005, 06:37:20 UTC

Incorrect! No pictures, ever.

Except that is a lie, because Olga had a picture of us taken in front of/under the spherical-theater thing. She is a very silly girl (good thing).

vislius August 11 2005, 00:15:17 UTC

No grammar? How about vocabulary? The Latin word iam has me particularly perplexed, as its various meanings -- now, already, and soon -- stretch across the entire spectrum of time. The present, past, and future are encased in one word.

byelka58 August 11 2005, 06:45:14 UTC

You can always hit me with the grammar/vocab, but in this case I am absolutely the wrong person to ask... Yesterday Wenera was gathering translations of "I love you" from all our classmates, and since I had nothing new to contribute (English and Russian being covered), I turned my mind to Latin. Not until ten p.m. last night, when I was iam in bed, did I finally remember the pronoun "ego". I mean, I had the amo right off the bat, but I just could not remember the pronoun declensions.

So I'm an idiot, is what I'm saying, and you need to be careful with these brainteasers lest I utterly collapse (zusammenbrechen). But iam that you mention it, that is bizarre. Latin never did care to make itself understandable, though, and I for one blame Cicero.

Freakin' Cicero.

kalliwoda August 11 2005, 14:16:55 UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong (because I'm only basing this off a side comment from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"), but doesn't the letter "J" become an "I" in the Latin alphabet? In which case, there is only one meaning for your profound word: a fruit-based spread often applied to bread as part of a nutritionally complete breakfast.

byelka58 August 12 2005, 07:09:22 UTC

Looks like she's onto our little game, vislius. It's the end of classics as we know it.

I feel fine.

No picture! anonymous August 11 2005, 08:08:39 UTC

Think of what a great Christmas card that would have made! Think how much fun it would have been to tell your brother that was your graduation present (or better yet, his souvenir of Germany!)