Shane Harris is a beyond-stellar reporter. I would be EXTREMELY interested to hear his thoughts on this …
Touché, zombie killer. Of all the boilerplate “there’s no there, there” gov responses, this one angers me most. It would be laughed out of the room in any nation that taught its people to read. Why do these reporters not laugh it out of the room? I guess we have the gov we deserve …
SY. perii hercle. Bacchi', mane, mane: quo mittis istanc quaeso? Jube maneat. BA. i.
( Ter. Heauton. )
Is the reason that T-10 teams are scheduling stronger non-con schedules? Like, to avoid an embarrassing road loss to a “rankings-killer,” they schedule the worst teams at home, and only travel to play against strong competition
The last sane Republican.
(1) If “intuitive” means “easy,” then I agree with the Hot Take. Nothing can solve the problem that learning Latin requires hard-ish work over a long-ish period of time. (2) As to what intro method is the most efficient, it I had to pick one, (for self-study), I’d pick LLPSI. EXCEPT, you don’t have to pick just one, and imo, it would be foolish to — the more Latin you see, the better. (3) The most surprising true fact about learning Latin is that reading lots of Latin, even when you feel like you don’t understand a word of it, is an extremely efficient use of time. ( I don’t think it’d be sufficient — i.e. do other things too, & the more the better, but reading Latin without a clue as to what’s being said is surprisingly efficient, if you do it over and over again, and often). (4) A very inefficient use of time is wondering about what method would be most efficient.
P.S. I can only speak to my own experience self-studying. It may be that the best way for teaching Latin in the classroom would be very different. ( I also think the work required to learn Latin well enough to read the authors freely probably exceeds the work required to “get an A or a B” in, say, a typical math or science high school course).
De asse et partibus eius, Guilielmi Budaei (gallice, “Guillaume Budé”) … hic est, G. Budé (1468-1540) … non Sanctus Beda Venerabilis (anglice, “the Venerable Bede” c. 700s).
Lebron, MJ, Bird, KG, Hakeem. I dare you to say this team can’t shoot : … and good luck scoring.
Grusch: Heard it’s going to rain.
All: Ohhh you heard: So in other words, you don’t know shit about today’s atmospherics. But yet, here you are, running your mouth, listening to yourself talk. Well then, attention whore, take this: I have concluded that today’s chance of rain is practically zero — and no I do not have a follow-up question; nor will I check the weather on my phone, nor ask anyone, ever again, about anything about the weather, or phones or any of this shit. No, no : I laugh at these people. They are dumb, and I am smart, because I don’t give second thoughts to things I’ve been told are conspiracies.
Grusch: Okaaaaay.
Fravor: … shortly after the controller called Merge Plot, at about 20,000 ft, all four of us looked down and saw a white, Tic-Tac shaped object — no rotors, no wings, no visible means of propulsion —flying in a zig zag pattern over the water, before it disappeared right in front of us. While we were looking for it, the controller tells us this that fucking thing had just popped back up on the Princeton’s Aegis SPY 1 radar, and it was—I shit you not—sitting right on top of our CAP point, waiting for us. That was 60 mi to the east, btw, which this thing covered that in less than a minute.
… uh, let me see, let me see, what else … It jammed our radar & equipment. … at times, mirrored me in flight … seemed to know what we were doing, where we wanted to go … ( we, on the other hand, didn’t have a fucking clue what it was doing, or where it wanted to go ) … that said though, we had been seeing it on our Aegis radar for 2 wks before … Yea, yea, …. you know, just like, “yo-yoing” up and down from 80,000 ft to 20,000 ft … rapidly … ( oh yea, and 80,000 ft ? that’s in space … )
… Anyone ?
Imogen Awakes from Cymbeline ( “Yes sir, to Milford Haven, which is the way?” )
Remember when Reagan thought aliens would make us all to love each other and give peace a chance?
O the times. Best case scenario is no one gives a shit. If we start to give a shit, it’ll be because the aliens are the other party’s president’s fault — (having escaped from Wuhan, or Moscow, or wherever on his watch ) — and all our sovereign citizens will be defending their freedoms to shoot any and all suspected lizard persons on sight.
With all due respect to the Tennessee natives and their “twangy” accent, Rep. Burchett sounds like he doesn’t know how to propose an amendment.
I hope the aliens treat us better than we treat our cattle.
This is a good point - perhaps the Bible and Isidore weren’t the best examples. I should’ve led with Aquinas, e.g. the line-by-line commentaries of Aristotle. They’re clear and brief—but not because the subject matter is easy; thats because he’s a really good thinker. And the reverse is true with Plautus/Terence. Very easy, light subject matter ( often, just witty versions of, “ Salve : Quid est ? Quid ais ? De qua ? … “ ). But their Latin is some of the purest and most idiomatic we have : and imo, their Latin is what Wheelock’s etc. least prepares you for—even though the subject matter is dead simple.
IMO : 1. The difference between Plautus (oldest) and Erasmus, Bacon, etc (new) is smaller than the difference between Shakespeare and modern English. There are differences; sometimes they cause hiccups in understanding; but the oldest and newest Latin writers are, for the most part, speaking the same language.
- For whatever reason, the differences between old and new Latin seem much larger/harder when going from a newer writer to an older writer. For example, if you start by reading, say, the Vulgate ( or Aquinas or Isidore ) then something older, like, Cicero ( or Caesar or Plautus ) will seem harder by comparison. But, in my experience, the same is not true when going from older to newer. If I’ve been reading older writers, then even “easy” parts in old writers seem harder to read than the newer stuff. ( I’ve noticed the same with Greek—Plato is harder to read the New Testament, and Homer is harder still. )
So, there are differences between old and new writers; if you read old stuff, those differences have almost zero effect on ability to read newer stuff; if you’re reading an older author for the first time, those differences will prob add extra difficulty; but in all cases, whatever added burden there is in dealing with differences between old and new authors, it is VERY, VERY slight when compared to learning the things that stay the same — i. e. the vocab, the cases of nouns, the tenses & moods of verbs, how the pronouns are used, etc.
Us to ourselves, “I’m above average.”
Time : tempore omnia fiunt leviora. Besides that, one thing that’s helped me (I think) is to spend time reading both way above, and way below, wherever I’m at. If I were you, I’d go to latin library and print off whatever interests you most (Ovid, Virgil, Livy, Cicero, anything) and spend a few hours with that — then go back to something you did awhile ago that’s easy for you now. Both would be at least as helpful as learning declensions; it’s a nice change of pace if you’re sick of learning declensions; and the difficulty of whatever’s hard for you now will look a whole lot more like what’s easy for you now than it does to Ovid, Virgil, etc.
If I could only watch one highlight reel for the rest of my life, it’d be D Rose’s MVP year. Unreal — and underrated.
This could launch a career for somebody at snl …
Wow that’s tedious. It’s a jello mold of a forgettable 50s ballad, but listen close, and it’s very, very dead inside. Really gets ya in the mood to drive to Hill House and jump down a flight of stairs …
I don’t know. But I do know that adding thousands and thousands of Latin words to your dictionary is not the answer. It’s a nightmare, in fact.
Now the (correct) UNDERrated list:
Honorable Mentions: Robert Johnson & Django Reinhardt, who get cited as Great Guitarists much more often than their records get played.
This guy has Mark Knopfler number one in the overrated guitar players list.
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