'Quid pro quo' is useful and commonly understood. As with schadenfreude, there's no native English idiom that conveys the meaning quite so succinctly.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 29 April 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Speaking of hybridization, I am fascinated by the influence of Arabic on Spanish. The Wikipedia page has a pretty good list of direct word imports. One of the most frequently used in everyday speech is "ojalá," which roughly translates to "hopefully" and comes from "‘law šá lláh," which means "God willing" (I guess it's an earlier form or variant of "inshallah"). Although it's pretty much lost its religious connotations, surely thought patterns persist.
Arabic influence on the Spanish language
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 April 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
More from the pinefox’s book:dies faustus, which means “lucky day.”gradus as Parnassum, literally “steps to Parnassus, and usually intended to mean learning something gradually, and therefore often a common title for instruction manuals.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Aargh gradus ad Parnassum
tempus anima rei, time is the soul of things, so maybe time is of the essence.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
Those are all in the book?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 30 April 2022 09:15 (one year ago) link
Yes
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
the word parnassus needs a bit more opening up maybe: it's the name of the mountain range in central greece where apollo worked with the muses to make divine music
now we would perhaps say "elevator to beyoncé"
― mark s, Saturday, 30 April 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
Unusually, I walked past poster Mark S's home yesterday.
My main thought was: actually, this is a tremendous place to live, isn't it?
(No Latin content in this post I'm afraid)
― the pinefox, Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
ORIGIN: L tremendus to be trembled at
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
gerundive of tremere, to tremble
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCB6fftSwA
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
the text I most remember from high school is from Catullus, the most famous of his poems, about his conflicted relationship with LesbiaŌdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīrisNesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excruciorI hate and I love. Maybe you ask why I do thisI don't know, but I feel it happening and I am tortured
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Have my eye on the reader Familia Romana but have been holding off for a bit.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Noli turbare circulos meos!
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgAtluo9aw
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
Note that the song is titled “Panis Et Circenses” but otherwise it’s usually “panem et circenses,” with the bread in the accusative.
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
Contra malum mortis non est medicamentum in hortis.
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Although I see other alternate wordings of that.
Just saw on TCM that Walter Matthau used the term sine invidia in a letter to Billy WIlder about The Fortune Cookie script.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
Lupus in fabula.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
— Em tibi autem!— Quidnamst?— Lupus in fabula.— Pater est?— Ipsust.— Terence, Adelphoe 535–539
— But look!— What is it?— Talk of the devil!— It’s my father?— In person. (Transl. Barsby, 2001)
obv (and against barsby) i favour "whomst is it?" for "quidnamst?"
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Also have been thinking about postingFestina lenteLast seen here one and only time on a certain type of very olde thread.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Homines quod volunt credunt.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
The Duolingo course is not so great but at least it has audio and I haven’t personally maxed it out like so many others so I have been plugging away at it recently
― The Big O RLY (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 January 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
flumenflue, transitum Eva et Adae, declinationem ab litore ad flectere lauri, commodius ab nobis facit Houuthi vicus de castro et recirculus ad circumstant.
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:46 (seven months ago) link
Horror vacui
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 October 2023 00:37 (six months ago) link
Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:17 (six months ago) link
solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:21 (six months ago) link
a palindrome and riddle:
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
― budo jeru, Friday, 20 October 2023 01:16 (six months ago) link
Aquilam volare, delphinum natare doces.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:32 (five months ago) link
https://logeion.uchicago.edu/vir
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2024 12:40 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hd799IznU
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2024 12:51 (three months ago) link
Apparently the preferred method by far these days of self-study is a book known as Lingua Latina or LLPSI (in full, LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA), written by a Danish linguist and high school teacher named Hans Ørberg. It’s 100% in Latin and uses the Natural Method to teach, which I guess means letting the brain what it does naturally. There is all kinds of ancillary material built up around if, including the audio version I just linked to.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:31 (three months ago) link
Around it
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:59 (three months ago) link
I realized recently I still know the Our Father and Hail Mary in latin which I guess is what happens when you take Latin at a catholic HS.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 12 January 2024 15:19 (three months ago) link