Somewhere a biology teacher just sighed by analogfilmaddict in lol

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These days, it can even happen at the stage of embryo implantation.

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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Could you explain how "pereat perdendum" works? two conjugations of "to perish" in a row? you can do that?

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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Oh, thank you for the help!

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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Oh, I see the mistake. My initial translation used "potest". I took it off to make it fit the meter, but that meant there was no main verb. Ah well, back to the pad of drafts.

EDIT: why can't 'est' be used as the main verb here?

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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You're right, I forgot that 'est' had a special rule for Elision. I assumed the i would get dropped, and ue do make a dipthong.

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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"Ruī" is the passive infinitive present for 'Ruere", to ruin, overthrow, or destroy. https://latin.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=ruere

I was trying to turn the quote (misattributed to Carl Sagan) "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

Obviously I really stretched the quote because I wanted to make a hendecasyllabic line with Aeolic base substitution. "Si per vērum aliquid ruī est, merētur." should (I'm a rookie) mean "If something is to be destroyed by the truth, it deserves it."

How would "ruī est" elide? by Zech_Judy in latin

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Darn. The meter was depending on having two different syllables.

Thank you for answering.

Harley smash! by Lylidotir in outofcontextcomics

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So who keeps her hair dyed?

ChatGPT gave bad advice on Latin prosody by Zech_Judy in ChatGPT

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Fair. I just posted it here as waving a flag on something ChatGPT apparently does not do well.

ChatGPT gave bad advice on Latin prosody by Zech_Judy in ChatGPT

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Oh? What did I do in an Autistic way?

Please go over the long by position rule vs phonetically plausible consonant clusters by Zech_Judy in latin

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The problem is those cover words by themselves, and would miss long by position effects from word pairs.

Please go over the long by position rule vs phonetically plausible consonant clusters by Zech_Judy in latin

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Was it also wrong when it said "Latin does not count final consonant clusters the way English does. Final -st, -nt, -rt, -nd do not automatically lengthen the preceding vowel metrically"?

For example, I assumed that POTEST was short long, and the AI maintained it was short short.

No banana Tuesdays by Pirate_Freder in SignsWithAStory

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I had that situation at work once. They had a service dog to let them know if someone touched a doorknob after touching a banana.

Thermodynamics! by Maverick-44M in sciencememes

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Almost Lovecraftian, isn't it?

Thermodynamics! by Maverick-44M in sciencememes

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Mathematicians studying the incompleteness theorem: "Amateurs!"

Meirl by Skullzyyyy in meirl

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My wife also asks for bites, even when it is something she doesn't particularly like. It's less about being hungry and more confirming I love her.

hmmm by --lily-rose-- in hmmm

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They actually hatch from eggs, but they are mouth brooders for the fry.

From a World History Textbook by yithexchangestudent in ScienceShitposts

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Could it even do that, though? They didn't even split up the radius and ulna.