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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 28, 2019 23:13:37 GMT -5
Had I known Latin would come up in the form of a VT quiz, I would’ve taken Latin in high school.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 23:17:01 GMT -5
I got hung up on the Latin, too. I should have just focused on dogs' names. Although the Latin part makes perfect sense.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:19:42 GMT -5
Hot damn! You’re right. But she looks more like Lipton than Perabo. She looks more like someone else than like herself?
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:21:59 GMT -5
Hmm. I know Latin for truth, loyalty, and the American Way (just kidding about that last one), but I don't think I can dredge up "trust".
Three years of Latin in high school, but I was way more interested in Roman history and mythology than the actual language.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 23:22:54 GMT -5
Again, names of dogs. THEN worry about Latin.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:23:32 GMT -5
Again, names of dogs. THEN worry about Latin. Fido? (ps. Just looked it up. Yup, Fido. As in, fidelity, fiduciary, bona fides etc.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 23:30:34 GMT -5
No doubt why "Fido" became a cliche name for a dog. Abe started it.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:34:56 GMT -5
No doubt why "Fido" became a cliche name for a dog. Abe started it. Abe was an Influencer.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:41:57 GMT -5
I remember that agricola is "farmer". That was pretty much day one of Latin class. Like "Run Dick run. Dick see Jane." except it was stuff like "I am a farmer." "Agricola ego sum."
(I had to look that up, except for "agricola". I do know "ego" is "I" and "sum" is "am".)
I think we used agricola because it was "first declension". So we learned the first declension first, I guess. Declension for nouns, conjugation for verbs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 23:44:26 GMT -5
E pluribus unum. Veritas. Church stuff, too.
All of it failed me. Fido was so damned obvious and I was hung up on the Latin.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:45:55 GMT -5
E pluribus unum. Veritas. Church stuff, too. All of it failed me. Fido was so damned obvious and I was hung up on the Latin. Your "dog name" hint was good.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 28, 2019 23:50:58 GMT -5
I remember being confused that just because "mensa" is feminine does not mean that Romans thought tables were girls.
(Later I was confused about why an organization of supposedly smart people named themselves "Table".)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 19:43:12 GMT -5
Sad ending for Fido.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 20:13:59 GMT -5
What two-word term today usually refers to a foundation or institution, but was originally a slang term for the human brain?
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 30, 2019 21:14:02 GMT -5
What two-word term today usually refers to a foundation or institution, but was originally a slang term for the human brain? "think tank"?
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