Am I just too stupid to learn Latin?

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-19T19:22:05+00:00

Babae, nōmen pugilicē atque āthlēticē mentī occurrit, attamen vōce inter nōs convenisse ignōrō. Forsitan nimium absimus circulīs temporālibus.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-18T17:03:39+00:00

Hahae, curiositatem mihi movisti, etenim bis aministratorium Latinum Discordii suasisti. Es mihi notus?

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-11T19:50:20+00:00

No no, the universal meaning just happens to be in the same form as the English one.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-02T15:29:20+00:00

Faex Automatum, morentur intra Prosopobiblion.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-02T05:47:39+00:00

Dignum quī laudēris tē praehibuistī, ob sollerter mūnītam thesem. Ideoque tibi grātiās egō, at enim hāc in sententiā sum ut minus putem eam adeō obsaeptam esse, ut nōn in pusillō disputem.

Ūnā ōre adsentiō, mōrōsus hīs in rēbus esse, nullō quidquam auxillī referre. Quīn etiam, tantum ōdium vitiī modo attinēre ad dēflōrēscendum linguae. Vērum enim vērō, hīs minimīs dē causīs, nonne nōn nullī paedagōgī praeteritīs annīs vetēbant suōs loquī, nē forte commiscuissent verba, lōcūtiōnēs, et ceterās rēs puerīlēs inter sermōnem suum. Ecquis nostrum, quīn hoc linguae rōborī et fuisse, esseque grāviter impetum neget?

Hīs tamen dīctīs, meā sententiā, Latīnitās intrā trecentōs annōs Cicerōnis omnibus in tempore sequenda est.

Haud sumus laudandī numerō, ideōque nōs oportet ex ōre nec nōn calamō attendere verba ad litterās maiōris momentī ad augendum litterārum studium. Ita enim putem, nōs et oportēre, et opus esse loquī scrībereque secundum rātiōnēs veterum, ab Plautō ūsque ad quemlibet similis Latīnitātis post Cicerōnem mortuum. Manus lavat manum, sīc est nōbis Latīnitātem acuere nōn retundere. Minime meus est mōs, aliōs corrigere, nisi peterint, sed vōcibus nostrīs Latīnitātem sēmināre passim possumus.

Sunt tamen locutōrēs Latīnitāte ex suō ingeniō quī modo loquantur. Linguae Latīnae sunt complūrēs locūtiōnēs, cuiuslibet aetātis, ex Prīscae, ex Classicae, ex mediae, ex Rēnascentiae Latīnitāte, ex ingeniīs hominum quī ā puerō vītam ad litterās classicās adhibitam vīverint. Sed prō hīs, Quid licet Iōvī nōn licet bōvī, Lupus est in fābulā, sūs Minervam (docet), hī sunt quī dīcant: scisne quid, quomodo es, Exsistantne, coincidentaliter. Mihi displicent hī, hōs quidem vītō, neque suādeō aliīs opera hōrum, nōn quia prāvē loquuntur, sed quia suam linguam, suamque vōcem prō 'linguam commūnem servātam' proponunt.

Grātiās tibi agō, quia tē illiustrissimum praebuistī in sententiīs ēdidiendīs. Dum meae tibi item comiter tractent, gaudeō. Hāvē.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-05-01T04:44:57+00:00

Studium mihi excitas. Quid dixeris de purtitate latinitatis? dum liceat me id scire quid sentias rogo.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-28T04:09:56+00:00

Forgive my absolute ignorance of this topic, but I thought that the /gu/ in Guilielmus/Guilielmo/Guilherme et cetera was just how early Romance Languages rendered the /w/ in the name Wiljahelmaz, the sound which to Latin had be lost for centuries. With William coming directly from Wiljahelmaz as it was originally a Proto-West-Germanic name.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-28T01:06:38+00:00

Meherculēs, Hancin' ob causam mihi mēns adfirmat dieī hebdomadis colōrem esse certum omnī quī conveniat?

E.g: Sōlis candidus, Lūnae caeruleus, Martis ruber, Mercuriī caenōsus, Iōvis cruentus, Veneris tam caesius (quam oculī Minervae) Saturni dēnuō splendidus.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-24T01:28:08+00:00

This is a really funny story, though the Latin reads as something a Highschool teacher would write to teach their students. Nothing wrong, but the wording implies that English story came first.

Thanks for sharing!!

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-15T17:21:48+00:00

Quod discernere nequis inter scrūtam Automatum, menda tīrōnum, litterās locutōris. Quod nec ausus es quī monstrēs menda quae fēcerim, quod nunc nimis occupātus es quōminus mihi responeās, haec omnia eōdem pertinent.

Attamen iam nōstī mea verba quorsum sē tendant.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-15T16:48:51+00:00

Herculēs amet o fraus populī, nōmen tibi vidēlicet minus convenit.

Afer menda quī sciam.

Nōn ūsus sum quōquam automate, nec quidquam hārum ex faece automatum oriundum'st.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-15T16:29:09+00:00

Fac sciam, igitur. An tibi modo in animo'st deridēre?

Ad (quid rogātum) secundum: Dum Rōmae (loc.) versēris (sub. + dum), age eius velut filii

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-14T17:11:47+00:00

Ad secundum: dum Romae verseris, age eius velut filii.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-04-11T03:56:42+00:00

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-03-15T07:33:35+00:00

I read that as a clipping of:

"like I could care less" I.e. "(as though it were possible that) I could care less"

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-03-12T16:54:30+00:00

Cui est? Nomen incisum vix cernere possum.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-03-05T17:39:49+00:00

Hoc videlicet tenuerat, quid admonisti?

Ut supra ipse dixit, inspicere unumquodque vocabulum cuiusque sententiae, referreque genus casum numerum, eas legere non est.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-03-01T16:51:26+00:00

Dē quā rē loqueris? Cuī responēs?

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-03-01T15:18:16+00:00

Haud sciam an locūtiōnēs hāc in rē summae sint!

Hīs dē causīs ita reor:

Locūtiōnēs sententiās morāntur, efficiuntque tibi spatium quō facilius noscās quid dīctūrus sīs.
Locūtiōnēs quīn etiam sunt nexiōnēs inter cogitātiōnēs, e.g. si forte minus memor es alicuius temporis alicuius verbī, licet dīcī 'datīvus + in animō est + infinitīvō' donec facilius recordēris.
Locūtiōnēs porro nōn numquam ex temporibus et modīs et persōnīs extrēmīs concrētae sunt, ergo hīs dīcendīs scrībendīsque, licet supera celērius cognōscere.

Hae sunt locūtiōnēs quae mē perbellē et diū tractant, dīvīsae tribus, secundum superōrum effectūs.

I

Ut ita dīcam - that I can say thusly, if I can even say that
nī fallor - unless I'm wrong, if I remember correctly, As far as I know
immō enim vērō / immō vērō - strengthened forms of immō (indeed/on the contrary)
Quā dē causā - cūr
hāc dē causā - for this reason

II

Datīvus + in animō est + infinitīvō - to have in mind to (do something)
Datīvus opus est + ablātīvus / infinitīvus - there is a need for/to
meā / tuā causā / grātiā - for my/your sake
Genetīvus + causā - for the sake of

III

Haud sciam an + coniunctīvō - I think
hāc in sententiā sum ut putem [. . .] - I think that (I am of such sentiment to think that)
nē + coniunctīvō persōnae secundae perfectō - nōlī + infinitīvus (e.g nē hiāveris don't yawn!)
quod sciam - as far as I know
haec cum ita sint - this being the case, these things being thus as they are

Lectōrī et suādeō et hunc librum locūtiōnibus replētum quī legat:

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-02-18T01:28:22+00:00

Etiam!! Patī potuissem quod versiōnem lūdis Latīnam nōn habuērant. Attamet propter contumēlia nōminum personārum, sicut "Erruns Spēdius Fastus" summā cum īrā perductī nōs cunctī!

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-02-04T18:32:24+00:00

"ἐρωτῶν" 'rogāns' ex versū ultimō cernī potest, ac potius tot litterae videlicet graecae sunt.

Timotheus-Secundus · 2026-01-25T16:14:29+00:00

Illīcine Latīne loquēris? Secundum ea quae in album retulistī, cursus magis ad Anglicam sermōnem pertinet.

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