raeda in fossam

[teenybuffalo]

There's a TV Tropes page for Ecce Romani, the basic Latin textbook I studied with my mother as a tween.  Ah, the memories.  It was a lot of fun at the time, but all I remember of my Latin is that Cornelia was puella strenua, while her friend Flavia was puella however-you-say-lazy.  Sedenta?

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[sovay]

There's a TV Tropes page for Ecce Romani

That's just so weird.

[teenybuffalo]

I feel validated! Other people read those books, made fun of the illustrations, and thought Sextus was a dope. I am not the only one who got involved in the stupid story of how the Cornelii got their carriage stuck in a ditch.

[sovay]

Other people read those books, made fun of the illustrations, and thought Sextus was a dope.

Ecce Romani is not how I learned Latin, but I had to use it to teach a kid in middle school once.

[teenybuffalo]

What did you think of it? Was it useful? Grossly oversimplified?

[teenybuffalo]

You were probably too advanced to need this text at the age when most people see it (early teens). My mother liked it just because she'd had to learn Latin from Caesar's Gallic Wars, slightly adapted for kids. It was very refreshing to her to read descriptions that weren't about battles.

"What? Your daughter is a good girl but my son is a danger to the town?"

Someone must have had fun writing that text.

The Sabine men sadly and angrily rushed home. I can see them doing it, too. In lockstep, like the Cartoon History of the Universe.

[greenlily]

There is apparently Yuletide fanfic for the Cambridge Latin Course, which I think involves textbooks. Someone translated the fanfic into Latin, too.

[teenybuffalo]

Knowing Yuletide, I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but nonetheless that's a new one to me. There's probably Strunk/White slash on the Yuletide archive by now.