#modern latin

[pervigilatrix]

cogito, fortasse, me scribere hic in Latina lingua posthac

[vintage-tigre]

[fresherfriut]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

María Gamundí

Embrace, 2004

[oncanvas]

Bottleneck, Emilio Sánchez, 20th century

Watercolor on heavy paper 59 ½ x 39 ½ in. (151.1 x 100.3 cm)

[amali4m]

"listening to music in your target language is the best way to learn it" they said "it'll be fun" they said but now i'm listening to smells like teen spirit in classical latin with weird instrumentals in the background.

[canisalbus]

I just recently started following you so i don't have the full lore of your murderous gay religiously traumatized doggos, BUT, from my understanding, they are Italian and i don't know what part of Italy they are from, yet i can't help headcanoning Vasco as Tuscan, while Machete is probably from some part of Veneto. And as an Italian who has heard Tuscans and Veneto dialet, well it's an hilarious mental image.

Vasco is indeed Tuscan, Florentine to be specific. He comes from a wealthy and influential noble family that has lived in Florence for centuries. He's proud of his roots, and it's usually easy for strangers to tell where he's from. He's a resonably successful politician and has worked as an ambassador and representative of Florence on numerous occasions.

Machete is originally Sicilian (ironically about as far from Veneto as possible), although he was taken to mainland at young age and has lived in several places since then, before ending up in Rome. The way I see it, he exhibits very little local color, his demeanor and (even though Italian hadn't become a standardized language yet) way of speaking are formal, neutral and scarcely give away any hints about his personal history, at least in the 16th century canon.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Alphonse Mucha, Au Quartier Latin, 1898

[yvanspijk]

The words cherries, peas, skates, and assets used to be singular forms. However, they were reanalysed as plurals because they sounded like plurals. New singulars were created by removing the -s. This linguistic phenomenon is called back-formation. Here's how it went.

[gemsofgreece]

I find it really funny that both Latin and Greek apparently decided that muscles/biceps and mouses look alike so they get the same name.

Hahaha true!

Given the facts that the Greek μῦς means exactly mouse, whereas the Latin musculus means “little mouse”, so there is an additional thought process there, and that the muscles are already called as such in the Homeric Greek of the Iliad (~ 800 BC), it makes me think the Greeks made that comparison in their mind and then the Romans were like “shit they right” but then they went “it is a tad excessive though, maybe they look like small mice” 😂😂😂

Lingual fun fact:

The Greek word for muscle, μυς (mys), remains the same to this day. The standard word for mouse has changed though, it is now ποντικός (pontikós m.) or ποντίκι (pontíki n.). The etymology of this word is also Greek but quite surprising. It comes from the phrase «ποντικός μῦς» (pontikós mys), which means “Pontic mouse”, from πόντος (póntos) which means “sea”, thus sea mouse, referring to the ship mice / rats. And for some weird as heck reason Greeks started calling mice for short as pontics instead of, you know, the way they actually called mice all this time 😂 But there’s more: long after the new word for mouse had been established to be ποντίκι, Greeks colloquially started referring to some muscles, particularly the biceps as «ποντίκια» (pontics) 😂😂😂 So it’s the wheel that never breaks, if you are Greek 🫵, you think muscles look like mice, there is no getting away from it no matter how many words you change!

*A bonus reminder from @alelx2194, the mussels were also called mice! However, from the etymology pages I read, it seems the ποντικός μυς referred to mice of the coastal regions and the ships rather than the mussels.

Ps. My earnest apologies to those who read all the “mouses” and only one instance of “mice” before I corrected the post. It was a mini stroke probably.

[buck1eys]

LOTR PEOPLE just thinking about a Possession AU where Éowyn and Faramir are PhD students at different universities researching this early medieval Old English text called Þāra Hringa Hlāford and they develop an academic rivalry about whether a certain two figures in the narrative were getting it on or not. This debate is much encouraged by a certain reincarnated Prof. G. L. Findel who knows an enemies to lovers moment when he sees one and gets them together for some field study

[drawdownbooks]

Diagramming Modernity: Books and Graphic Design in Latin America, 1920–1940 This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the region's rapid modernization. The books reproduced here encapsulate this transformative era, expressing and embodying emergent national and continental narratives in Latin American countries.

Diagramming Modernity reproduces more than 1,000 illustrated first editions, analyzing the cornucopia of cultural narratives they contain. In addition to showcasing relatively unknown work by many consecrated artists, the publication also boasts an extensive repertoire of avant-garde artists largely forgotten until today.

Chapters are devoted to countries and to specific themes such as Word-Image, Verbal Visualities, Pre-Columbianisms and Ancestralisms, and Social and Political Graphics.

Writers and thinkers Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Juan Manuel Bonet, Mariana Garone Gravier and Dafne Cruz Porchini conscientiously investigate these themes and more.

Edited by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales and Riccardo Boglione

With texts by Juan Manuel Bonet, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Marina Garone Gravier, and Dafne Cruz Porchini

Designed by José Luis Lugo

Published by Editoriale RM and Ediciones La Bahía, 2023

Hardcover, 876 pages, 1500 color images, 9 × 12.25 inches

ISBN: 978-8-41-797579-1

[fresherfriut]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Manuel Carbonell Pygmalion and Galatea, 1963

[oncanvas]

The Flower Basket, Frida Kahlo, 1941

Oil on copper 31 ⅜ in. (80 cm) in diameter

[natisworlds-blog]

one of my best friends is having a baby, catch me in my ultimate tía form 💅🏽🛍️ 👜