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samoth

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don't take fucking latin.

I had to buy a damn grammar book since I can't remember the last time I even heard the terms declension, nominative case, future imperative active, or predicate. Fuck, this is way too time consuming. And my damn TTT won't let me graduate without two semesters of some foreign language.


Example of TTTness of the subject:

For the noun agricola, agricolae (masculine), therefore the stem agricol-. It declines as follows:


Case singular translation

Nominative agricola a farmer (subject)
Genitive agricolae of a farmer, a farmer's
Dative agricolae to/for a farmer
Accusative agricolam a farmer (direct object)
Vocative [same as nomative]


Plurals:

agricolae farmers (subject)
agricolarum of farmers, farmers'
agricolis to/for farmers
agricolas farmers (direct object)
agricolis from/with/in/by farmers


Damn 101 course is pwning me, I suck at memorizing.



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Propter vitia tua multi te culpant et nihil te in patria tua delectare nunc potest.
Because of your vices, many blame you and nothing can delight you now in your country.


What the. Why the fuck can't we translate stuff that sounds normal. This is what I get for taking a dead language.



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Only good thing that so many others are latin based you should be able to pick them up easy after learning this....I took Spanish in College for 3 yrs...remeber some but not much...
 
discipula learner, pupil, student
insidiae ambush, plot, treachery
liber book
vitium fault, crime, vice
plenus full, abundant, generous
vester your
quare therefore, why
possum to be able, can, could
supero to be above
ceno to dine
quando when
heri yesterday
cras tomorrow
propter because of
igitur therefore, consequently
pulcher beautiful, fine
noster our
adulescentia youth
 
They look easy and similar to our words and stuff, but when they're all put together and stuff, it's a royal pain in the ass. Meh.



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okay start looking at how they are simular..some of them and kink them that way..someof them look like the words we use...
 
foreigngirl said:
why would you take latin as foreign language anyways? Its dead language
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I've wanted to take a scandinavian language for years. They don't seem to offer them here for some reason.

I originally signed up for greek, but the only available course interferred with my schedule. And I don't want to take any of those other damned languages either, lol. I'm not going to remember a semester or two of a language, so I fail to see the purpose of half-assedly learning a language. I figured the ancient languages would be the most worthwhile, but it's a bitch doing all the busy work when I'm trying to finish my degree.



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I've always thought it would be kind of fun to take latin. If anyone's ever taken medical terminology courses they get why.

I took a few years of french and a year of spanish. I blend the 2 together into a mess I call "spench".
 
Gymgurl said:
okay start looking at how they are simular..some of them and kink them that way..someof them look like the words we use...
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Yeah, there's ~125 we need to have memorized for each exam. The vocab isn't even the hard part... it's the case system, declensions and conjugations that we need to memorize, and it's all completely arbitrary. Like, I can't derive anything. It's driving my insane.

For example, declining the noun dominus (the master):
Second declension, o- decl., usually for masculine and neuter nouns.

Singular:
Nom dominus
Gen domini
Dat domino
Acc dominum
Abl domino
Voc domine

Plural:
domini
dominorum
dominis
dominos
dominis
domini

Damn, I wish we could use calculators on these exams. I'd totally program all the vocab into my calculator.



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Raina said:
I've always thought it would be kind of fun to take latin. If anyone's ever taken medical terminology courses they get why.

I took a few years of french and a year of spanish. I blend the 2 together into a mess I call "spench".
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Yeah, I always wanted to take it. Just not now, lol. My first university had means by which a science major could get out of taking a foreign language... which of course, I took full advantage of... then I transferred... meh. I got another semester of some foreign language left still. I want greek, but I might fold and take something easy like german. I vehemently refuse to take any more spanish.



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Dude you worry about latin and declinations? latin has 6 declination cases, german has 4 (Nominative, Genitive, Dativ and Accusativ).

the difference is I HAVE to learn with this day in and day out. Quit yer bitching.

Latin will help you LOTS if you ever decide to learn spanish, french, italian or any other (gasp) latin-based language.

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foreigngirl said:
why would you take latin as foreign language anyways? Its dead language
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If you're in HS it helps tremendously with the SAT's. No reason in college. But it will definately boost your scores.
 
pintoca said:
Dude you worry about latin and declinations? latin has 6 declination cases, german has 4 (Nominative, Genitive, Dativ and Accusativ).

the difference is I HAVE to learn with this day in and day out. Quit yer bitching.

Latin will help you LOTS if you ever decide to learn spanish, french, italian or any other (gasp) latin-based language.

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LOL, I wish they offered the languages as summer courses. I don't mind the work, it's just the volume of work while trying to keep up with all my real coursework... the stuff I'm gettin' a degree in.

Damn language req's.



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rudeboyja said:
If you're in HS it helps tremendously with the SAT's. No reason in college. But it will definately boost your scores.
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Actually it will help a lot with the GRE verbal as well. The only redeeming factor of the course.



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samoth said:
LOL, I wish they offered the languages as summer courses. I don't mind the work, it's just the volume of work while trying to keep up with all my real coursework... the stuff I'm gettin' a degree in.

Damn language req's.



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:heks: + :cow: = zoosmileyphilia
 
i ended up taking french for far too long...ended up taking it 3 years in a row....the kicker is i can barely speak it...lol
 
Raina said:
Maybe you should just drop out of school? It sounds like too much work.
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I'm overcome by hideous, overwhelming feelings of guilt and anxiety spending anything in excess of nominal time on non-physics/math subjects directly relating to my major and grad school.

And I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of paperwork involved in dropping out of school, so that's out of the question at least until lunch.



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samoth said:
I'm overcome by hideous, overwhelming feelings of guilt and anxiety spending anything in excess of nominal time on non-physics/math subjects directly relating to my major and grad school.

And I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of paperwork involved in dropping out of school, so that's out of the question at least until lunch.



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Dude, kill that shit and come to CERN
 
pintoca said:
Dude, kill that shit and come to CERN
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Hence my wanting to learn scandinavian languages. That, and my decade-long interest in the norweigan black metal scene.

I totally need an internship at CERN. But our school gets pretty good hookups at Fermilab, and CERN is really hard to get into.'


Hyvis lyset tar oss.



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bran987 said:
lol, I think it helps if you are going to become a lawyer (not much though)
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Don't see many of them near the physics building. We tend to hate gunners, too, so the enggs and us would probably gang up on them, beat them into a bloody pulp and feed them through the particle accelerator to see if they have any nifty heavy ions in them.



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samoth said:
I'm overcome by hideous, overwhelming feelings of guilt and anxiety spending anything in excess of nominal time on non-physics/math subjects directly relating to my major and grad school.

And I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of paperwork involved in dropping out of school, so that's out of the question at least until lunch.



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I still have a copy of the Bhagavad Gita from a 100 level course, total waste of time, bullshit, nothing to do with Engineering, asshole instructor. Only course I ever got less than a 3.0 on.

World Civilizations 101, taken in my fourth year.

The entire course had to be thought of from the perspective of non-Western thought. I'm in there with a bunch of Freshman and one seriously uptight history Phd.
 
redguru said:
I still have a copy of the Bhagavad Gita from a 100 level course, total waste of time, bullshit, nothing to do with Engineering, asshole instructor. Only course I ever got less than a 3.0 on.

World Civilizations 101, taken in my fourth year.

The entire course had to be thought of from the perspective of non-Western thought. I'm in there with a bunch of Freshman and one seriously uptight history Phd.
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Engineering rocks...

we have all those physicists working for us and running tests in their cute little labs... or even better, doing our programming!!!
 
samoth said:
Don't see many of them near the physics building. We tend to hate gunners, too, so the enggs and us would probably gang up on them, beat them into a bloody pulp and feed them through the particle accelerator to see if they have any nifty heavy ions in them.



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ROFLMAO, actually probably only one of the few times both Applied and Theoretical would join together. Slide Rules unite! We also would join together if someone removed Jolt cola from the coke machine in the lab building.
 
samoth said:
I can't even find aeunt in my index.

And why is a link showing up when I quote your post? Hmm, here it's eunt. Odd.


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EDIT: nm, you edited.
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Sorry, I think I must have been having a diphthong-happy moment.
 
I wanted to call a company 'Aequus' but my partner refused because Asians can't pronounce the letter 's'.
 
samoth said:
I've wanted to take a scandinavian language for years. They don't seem to offer them here for some reason.

I originally signed up for greek, but the only available course interferred with my schedule. And I don't want to take any of those other damned languages either, lol. I'm not going to remember a semester or two of a language, so I fail to see the purpose of half-assedly learning a language. I figured the ancient languages would be the most worthwhile, but it's a bitch doing all the busy work when I'm trying to finish my degree.



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the ancient languages are all a bitch. I had anciant slavic in colledge. I hated it. The worst it that nobody is talking it anymore and the grammar is terribly hard.
 
redguru said:
ROFLMAO, actually probably only one of the few times both Applied and Theoretical would join together. Slide Rules unite! We also would join together if someone removed Jolt cola from the coke machine in the lab building.
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Luckily for those of us still trudging through school, Jolt has been conveniently replaced by adderall. We're happy 'cause we already have a tolerence to caffeine, profs are happy since their grad students can do more work, grad students are happy because they can better handle the evergrowing demands of their advisors, we're happy because we can better compensate for the TA's lack of ability and general function due to workloads imposed by their advisors, and most importantly, the drug companies and their respective stock holders are happy.


... what a vicious little circle :worried:





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samoth said:
Luckily for those of us still trudging through school, Jolt has been conveniently replaced by adderall. We're happy 'cause we already have a tolerence to caffeine, profs are happy since their grad students can do more work, grad students are happy because they can better handle the evergrowing demands of their advisors, we're happy because we can better compensate for the TA's lack of ability and general function due to workloads imposed by their advisors, and most importantly, the drug companies and their respective stock holders are happy.


... what a vicious little circle :worried:

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LOL, I just mainline ephedrine HCL, have it in an IV drip I cart around with me.
 
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur." :D
 
redguru said:
Quisque comoedum est.
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Navis ad terram venit.

Yeah, that's right. I don't know how to say anything cool, so I just flip through Wheelock until I find a witty and belittling retort like this.

Mala navis!!

Meh.



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redguru said:
Quod Erat Demonstratum

That's it, I shot my load.
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How dissappointing, I was waiting for a mokery of my prestigious latin reply. It's at least one step-up from 'see spot go'. Maybe even two steps up. Either way, I'm rather impressed at the number of replies this thread has. I was expecting to be talking to myself with an occasional interruption from a good bor troll. Keep up the good work, folks.
 
samoth said:
How dissappointing, I was waiting for a mokery of my prestigious latin reply. It's at least one step-up from 'see spot go'. Maybe even two steps up. Either way, I'm rather impressed at the number of replies this thread has. I was expecting to be talking to myself with an occasional interruption from a good bor troll. Keep up the good work, folks.
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LOL, well yours had something to do with a ship landing. Ship of fools maybe? It's been so friggin long.

I thought Digger's response sounded quite profound tho.
 
redguru said:
LOL, well yours had something to do with a ship landing. Ship of fools maybe? It's been so friggin long.

I thought Digger's response sounded quite profound tho.
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Mine said "the ship comes towards the land". pwned.

I have no idea what Digger said, so I was trying to play it off like I didn't see his post or it was too easy or something.
 
samoth said:
Mine said "the ship comes towards the land". pwned.

I have no idea what Digger said, so I was trying to play it off like I didn't see his post or it was too easy or something.
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Digger's was "anything said in Latin sounds profound."
 
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