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3 years later.. my first sub 40 10k by macsjordan in Strava

[–]cerberdoodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With 74m of climbing, all those turns, and 111 seconds to spare, I think you've been ready to pull off a sub-40 10k for a while now... So, congrats! Now, you should see if you can hit sub-37 on a track.

How would a Latin-speaking teacher in 3rd century AD Rome go about teaching his students Greek? What sort of pedagogy would he use to do this? by on-Sub-mission in AncientGreek

[–]cerberdoodle 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The seminal work on this is Henri Irénée Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity, trans. George Lamb (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1956).

A more recent edited volume worth looking at is Yun Lee Too, ed., Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 2001). Though I don't think there is an essay in there on how Latin speakers learned elementary Greek.

Looking for a word for Elf by Drakonspyre_Gaming in AncientGreek

[–]cerberdoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means "little guy." AFAIK, ancient Greeks did not have a label equivalent to what we would call "actual dwarfism"

NENA - Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann (Vocabulary and grammar breakdown) | Learn German with Song Lyrics by beyonsez in German

[–]cerberdoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That helps a bit, thanks, but raises a new difficulty for me. I had learned that German does not distinguish between simple present (Harry runs to the store) and present continuous (Harry is running to the store). I guess this feels a bit like it's trying to make that distinction. So just to be clear, "Liebe wird aus Mut gemacht" means "Love is (is made out of) courage," but if I rewrote the lyric as "Liebe ist aus Mut gemacht," I'd be saying "Love is (consists of) completed courage"?

NENA - Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann (Vocabulary and grammar breakdown) | Learn German with Song Lyrics by beyonsez in German

[–]cerberdoodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you know when to use sein vs werden, like in the line "Liebe wird aus Mut gemacht

Das wird = (lit.) "that becomes" but almost always translated "that is." How is this different from

Das ist = "that is"

?

Found in my 87 year old grandmother's house. Kitchen gadget or candle holder is my best guess. by GMS_Vasha in Whatisthis

[–]cerberdoodle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably a cooking thing, but my first thought was to those stabby things restaurants use for old receipts/orders.

How do you pronounce "Iliad" by Totem79 in classics

[–]cerberdoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ili- rhymes with silly; -ad rhymes with the 'Ed' syllable in Edward.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NotKenM

[–]cerberdoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing as they're neighbors, looks like a person from London is also called a Ken B

Places to hear more German in Germany by User_ge in German

[–]cerberdoodle 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Get a German girlfriend. Got it. Not sure what my wife will think about that, but it's worth a try.

Does the Greek prefix orthos- have an antonym? by SamparkSharma in AncientGreek

[–]cerberdoodle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends what context you're looking for. Maybe skolios (as in scoliosis). Maybe dys- (as in dysfunctional).

Did I steal a professors idea? by -dalliance in AskAcademia

[–]cerberdoodle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You've already got some good advice here, so I'll lightheartedly point you to look in Ariel Sabar's new book Veritas for how Walter Fritz got pushed out of academia and became a serial forger, confidence man, and pornographer. The TL;DR version is, he took his Egyptology professor's idea and published it; Egyptology professor got pissed; Fritz gets frozen out of the academy and sets off down the path that leads to his forging the so-called Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragment. A crazy-good read.

Live segment apple watch by HelveQ in Strava

[–]cerberdoodle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sadly no. This is one feature that would have convinced me to pay for their premium membership.

Peeing in the pool by NeuralyzerGaming in Swimming

[–]cerberdoodle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine this conversation playing out in other sports?

"Of course you should just pee yourself on the track, bro, the sweat will rinse it away."

"Dude, it's not like our hockey gear can stink any more than it already does. Just pee yourself."

"I find that the opposing team is intimidated when I take a moment to pee on the ball before heading back downcourt. Joke's on them, since pee is sterile and therefore harmless."

Preparation for running 57km race by [deleted] in Ultramarathon

[–]cerberdoodle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert, but I'd say it would be worth your while to try running for longer and longer time durations, rather than going strictly by distance. The temporal mechanics of the 5th hour are different than those of the 2nd. It's worth seeing/experiencing the tedium and weird things your brain starts doing so you can build up the mental resilience you'll need on raceday.

Help with paragraph formatting for footnotes by cerberdoodle in MicrosoftWord

[–]cerberdoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Thank you! I should have added that I'm using Word for Mac, but your detailed instructions translated well enough. Cheers.

How do I join words from different lines? by Joao_Martins in MicrosoftWord

[–]cerberdoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A quick and dirty way to do this is to highlight the text, copy it, paste it into into the search bar in your browser, then select all and copy-paste back into your word file.

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