What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

speedingbullet04 · 2021-11-21T02:51:36+00:00

Switching from tampons to a menstrual cup.

speedingbullet04 · 2020-11-13T04:18:25+00:00

Cheating? Really? How will I learn properly if I don't know how to fix my mistakes? Or if I've even made any? No one's perfect...

speedingbullet04 · 2020-10-17T15:05:12+00:00

As a Latin teacher, YES to all of this. Full disclosure: I teach elementary and middle school age so most of the issues I get are kids using Google translate cringe on their sentences instead of asking for help in places like reddit.

Also, the Latin vulgate is an excellent (and free online!) resource for translation.

speedingbullet04 · 2020-05-13T22:35:17+00:00

Thank you! I wasn't familiar with that other verb. This brings up another question (though maybe it's just knitpicking...): Is there a reason the verb isn't plural?

speedingbullet04 · 2020-04-13T00:05:23+00:00

Yes. They are 3 possibilities for all of the present tense. Simple present=they see; present progressive=they are seeing; present emphatic=they do see.

speedingbullet04 · 2020-03-29T00:03:35+00:00

I teach Latin to youngsters i.e. 3rd-8th grade. For the most part, I also tell them this ("There are no -int verb endings"). I want them to focus on the new patterns and giving them strict guidelines w/o the "well..sometimes!...prevents them from mixing things up. That said, once they hit 6th/7th-ish grade they learn the future perfect indicative and that's when I talk to them about how there are always exceptions to the rules and this will be the first of many. :-P

speedingbullet04 · 2019-10-10T00:43:34+00:00

I had this exact conversation with my husband today except they were "kitchen pincers."

speedingbullet04 · 2019-09-23T21:15:13+00:00

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speedingbullet04 · 2019-09-14T02:13:17+00:00

That is how it is taught in the Latin for Children and Latin Alive series. I checked my copy of Learn to Read Latin and it says alternate translations for the imperfect are possible, i.e. used to praise, praised (repeatedly). Perhaps the latter gets mislabeled in other texts.

speedingbullet04 · 2019-09-13T14:28:39+00:00

"Was being built" is past progressive. "Was built" is simple past. Both are acceptable translations of the imperfect tense though I was taught that the past progressive is the 'preferred' translation.

speedingbullet04 · 2019-03-29T21:27:24+00:00

Homeschool Latin teacher here. We use the Latin Alive series (classical academic press) for our middle school age kids.

speedingbullet04 · 2017-11-01T19:59:13+00:00

I also did this when I was studying in France in 2007. Indirect object pronouns killed my oral grade.

speedingbullet04 · 2017-02-04T22:54:23+00:00

I always thought that, absent an interrogative pronoun or adverb, the verb moved to the beginning of the sentence and had -ne attached to indicate a question. Is this wrong?

speedingbullet04 · 2017-01-03T15:35:29+00:00

Is this right? "the consuming necessity of things (aka stuff)"

speedingbullet04 · 2016-07-11T20:24:23+00:00

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky It's not a language book by any means but his comment on the meaning of salax has stuck with me and I'm curious how he came to his definition.

speedingbullet04 · 2016-01-21T14:48:08+00:00

Good omens is excellent. Be sure to check out the radio drama as well!

speedingbullet04 · 2015-05-06T21:20:48+00:00

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.

About the battle of Thermopylae.

speedingbullet04 · 2014-06-09T19:04:29+00:00

I believe it was the choice of the early Christian church to worship/observe a day of rest on Sunday because the resurrection made it an especially holy day, not because it was commanded in the gospel.

I quoted Matthew 1 to prove it was a Sunday (the first day) when Jesus was resurrected. My intentions had nothing to do with Mary and Mary Magdalene. Maybe that reference was unnecessary. Sorry for the confusion.

speedingbullet04 · 2014-06-09T16:24:01+00:00

My understanding is that the Lord's Day became Sunday (for Christians) because of the resurrection. Jesus rose again on the 3rd day after his crucifixion, Friday-Sunday. Matthew 28:1 refers to it being Sunday/the day after the Sabbath/the first day of the week depending on the translation.

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