#latin rambles

[dumbfinntales]

Aliquando mos est mihi nugas scribere apud situm "twitter" vocatur (aut X, si placeat) cum vinum biberem. In mente volvi si aliquid apud tumblr scribere deberem.

Fiat! Homines, en, aspicite vel legite! Vero Latine scribo, sed haud res utiles. Qua malum re scribo nugas? Egone sum garrulus? Nunc loquor? Insanitisne? Videtisne me loquentem? Iamiam scribo, non loquor stultissimi!

Veniam a vobis peto si offendam. Dei mihi facultatem linguam Latinam scribendi sciendique dederunt, sed id abutor. Fateor, peccavi! Vae mihi miseri!

[singaporehelmet]

becoming the eyes and hands of a sentient forest your boyfriend created is peak boyfriendism, soulmate behavior, couple goals. maybe that's just me tho

[gravedangerahead]

Gringo is a slur discourse mood board

[buttdumplin]

I only know Mexican Spanish, so I can only speak for myself and those I grew up with but "mami" and "papi" are not the equivalent of mommy/daddy as used in sexual or intimate relations.

We use mami and papi with our kids. It's what our tíos and tías call us that affectionately. It's what the lady from the corner store calls us when she's sweet on us and can't quite remember our names. It's what our grandparents call us as they fix up a scraped knee. And they bring out papito/mamita when we're either in deep shit, or in need of comfort that can only come from someone with more knowledge, power, or experience than us. It's a diminutive term of endearment.

I'm not saying it's never used as mommy/daddy, but it's hardly ever a title. The context of it is so wildly different, because it's usually what we call someone we're responsible for.

"Mamas" tho? Mamas can fuck.

[nahimjustfuckinwithya]

good morning lgbtqdw+ community

[thunderc1an]

Rituals I do in my Mexican household for New Years:

When the clock hits 12, you eat 12 grapes. Each grape is a wish you make for the new year.

Grab a luggage and run around the outside of your house, each lap symbolizes how many times you’ll travel during the year.

Grab a broom, sweep your patio to make sure you brush away the bad spirits from entering your house.

My grandma also throws rice in the bushes when the clock hits 12, but I’m forgetting the reasoning behind this.

[jay-soaring]

Robert Lanyon you neurodivergent nerd.

[nina-ya]

If you ever wonder what surgeons do during surgery they blast music and the operating room staff dance along to vibe and help the surgeon focus

[perplexedjokist]

"magneto's real name is max" marvel honey, that's latin.

you want to give him a name? amichai.

amichai (עַמִיחַי , pronounced ah-mee-khai) means roughly "my people are alive".

I know what your thinking and yes I am being slightly cruel but I imagine his family would've named him that out of pure positive intent, or as a grasp at hope. good things you put out in the world always bring good back, don't they?

I like to think no one told him what it meant originally, or maybe he couldn't bring himself to care.

but later in life, he started to care quite a bit. you get where I'm going with this?

[dumbfinntales]

It's funny that no matter the community there's always some kind of beef or drama. I've been studying Latin for almost 3 years now and frequent the Latin subreddit. I'm sorry you have to find out that I use Reddit like this. But seriously speaking that subreddit has been a great resource in my learning and I've learned a lot through it.

But sadly not even a small niche community like that is drama free. It's a bit of a weird place full of hobbyist and genuine Latinists and scholars. There's a lot of fighting between people who like the grammar translation method of learning Latin, and some who advocate comprehensive input. And the fights can get pretty heated, ultimately ending in snarky replies or straight up insults. People take their Latin learning very seriously. More rambling below.

I learned Latin through a combination method, I did get the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata books, but I also studied and read up a lot about grammar. Latintutorial on Youtube was a big help! But most of my learning has been through various videos on youtube and reading a lot. That's what comprehensible input is, you just gotta interact with the language as much as possible. Grammar translation from what I get isn't exactly reading it's like solving a puzzle trying to identify each word and their form. That's how Latin has been learned and taught in the past few hundred years. No one seems to care about Latin as a language.

I've seen some extreme opinions that since Latin is dead you shouldn't care about how it's pronounced or its fine details, doing that is cringe and you're a larping nerd. A couple weeks back I saw a guy insulting anyone who wanted to speak Latin "properly", saying you're a pretentious twat if you roll your R's. And today I saw people getting heated up about macrons. Macrons mark long vowels and are important especially when you start out Latin. For example: malum and malum. Do you know the difference? If so where does the long vowel go? What are the two words? Maybe the malum malum example is too stereotypical, but it makes the point. In Latin if you see two identical words the difference between them will always be the long vowel somewhere, but if you don't use macrons how'd you know?

I do agree that once you know Latin well enough macrons aren't necessary anymore. Except with new words I guess. Finnish makes long vowels easy because they're always marked by two back to back vowels. The difference between tuli (fire) and tuuli (wind). Alright that's my Latin ramble, I'm not trying to make any point. People are weird, no matter what community they're a part of. It is what it is!

[mooseonahunt]

Please for the love of God learn the difference between Latino and Hispanic if you don’t already

[foreststarflaime]

I was reminded today while translating that in Latin generosa can also mean ‘nobly born’ in addition to the obvious cognate, which actually makes more sense in the context of One-Winged Angel. Sephiroth, glorious and nobly-born, son of the ‘cetra’ Jenova

[epicness1000]

I started to play Honkai: Star Rail because Boothill's character design is just so charming and it appealed to me in every way (dark clothes, cyborg, long Sephiroth-esque hair, sharp teeth). And obviously I am excited for his release, but...

I love Dr Ratio.

First off, his name literally having the word ratio is already funny to me, considering it's become a slang term. But then his whole thing of just... hitting enemies with his book? Or killing them by throwing a ruler at them? He has some oddly refined Baldi vibes.

I came for Boothill but I stayed for Dr Ratio. But I will also stay for Boothill when he's released.

[margindoodles2407]

hmmm. time for cicero

[niranutcake]

The... The compelling urge to write that x y/n fic with Mr Puzzles... To insert the two of them in every meme, pose reference, dialogue prompt and tiktok you saved in your gallery...

But the lack of time (and experience), dammit

Curse you, winter exams! Curse youuuuuuuuu!

[omnybus]

Surreal/dreamcore/horror artists are always putting eyes in or on random shit, sometimes mouths as well, but never noses or ears. Heck, many monsters in analog horror, creepypastas, and similar genres often have neither, aside from a pair of slit nostrils. Can't a nose or ear be as disturbing as the other parts of the face? We gaze into the darkness expecting it to gaze back or attempt to consume us, yet never consider that a predator often detects its prey first via scent or sound.