Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[Traitorfish]

brb, killing Roman languages in their entirety. Wyrd bið ful aræd, etc.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Breton will rise again!

 

[sophie]

Even when no longer spoken fluently, Latin lives on in the Romance languages, which are all basically Vulgar Latin

 

[Cutlass]

How can you say that Latin will ever be dead when even popular children's books are in Latin?

 

[gay_Aleks]

who thought this is a good idea

 

[Snerk]

Link to video.

 

[cardgame]

lol video thumbnail says it all doesn't it

[speaking gibberish]

 

[Arakhor]

who thought this is a good idea

I know you're Bulgarian and all, but make up your mind whether you hate Latin or Greek more.

 

[Takhisis]

why won't Latin die; we killed it in 476, then we had to kill it in 1453 and finally we stabbed it once more in 1810 just for fun in the HRE

c'mon just die finally kk

That would be the Roman Empire, and anyway it had to be killed in 1806 (not 1810), then 1945, or alternatively, if you heed the Russians, 1917.

Neuer!

Are you trying to… save Latin?

YEEEAAHHHHHHHHH!

What's abnormal about costumes? (I take it this was a medieval-style outfit?)

I've still got most of my SCA clothes, jewelry and feast gear from back in the '80s/'90s.

‘Normal’ needn't necessarily mean ‘good’.

Also, given that TF is an anarchist, I don't think we can impose any sort of ‘normality’ on him.

Even when no longer spoken fluently, Latin lives on in the Romance languages, which are all basically Vulgar Latin

@Owen: this statement comes from someone who speaks Portuguese.

I know you're Bulgarian and all, but make up your mind whether you hate Latin or Greek more.

Pah. Bulgarian is more or less Arabic with slavic words thrown into the mix.

 

[sophie]

@Owen: this statement comes from someone who speaks Portuguese.

I'm well aware, and it doesn't make his comment any less absurd. Just because you speak a language doesn't mean you're precluded from making naïve comments about that language or its relationship to other languages you don't speak.

Hell, English speakers make inane, uninformed comments about English and its linguistic form and background all the goddamn time.

 

[Takhisis]

Portuguese is rather vulgar, Owen.

 

[sophie]

Portuguese is rather vulgar, Owen.

It's more akin to Latin in some ways than Spanish, French, or Italian in that it retains the future subjunctive and an inflected infinitive, among other things, sure. But it's still a far cry from Vulgar Latin, let alone Classical Latin. Its declensions are heavily reduced. It doesn't retain nearly the same flexibility in its use of participial and gerundive forms. Its word order is largely fixed, and operates primarily in SVO form.

I mean sure English retains quite a few elements of its Old English ancestor, but it'd be ludicrous to characterize English as "basically Old English".

 

[Phrossack]

brb, killing Roman languages in their entirety. Wyrd bið ful aræd, etc.

Rómwéalas, færaþ to éow ealdcýððe!

Breton will rise again!

Bevet brezhoneg ha bevet Breizh!

 

[choxorn]

Breton will rise again!

The South (of Europe) will rise again!

 

[Takhisis]

The Southern Isles have just chosen to leave the EU, maybe that is a sign of their rise.

 

[W|M]

It's more akin to Latin in some ways than Spanish, French, or Italian in that it retains the future subjunctive and an inflected infinitive, among other things, sure. But it's still a far cry from Vulgar Latin, let alone Classical Latin. Its declensions are heavily reduced. It doesn't retain nearly the same flexibility in its use of participial and gerundive forms. Its word order is largely fixed, and operates primarily in SVO form.

I mean sure English retains quite a few elements of its Old English ancestor, but it'd be ludicrous to characterize English as "basically Old English".

If you really get down to it, most Indian, Iranian and European languages are essentially dialects of Proto-Indo-European

 

[Hygro]

There is a spider hiding in the cavity between my car ceiling and the roof. I am set to drive people and I can't get it out. I hope it stays hidden

 

[Takhisis]

If you really get down to it, most Indian, Iranian and European languages are essentially dialects of Proto-Indo-European

Don't you see now how vulgar he is, Owen?

There is a spider hiding in the cavity between my car ceiling and the roof. I am set to drive people and I can't get it out. I hope it stays hidden

The_J and Bootstoots probably have recommendations on how to remove the spider. Using SCIENCE.

 

[Hygro]

I tried playing my bassiest music at full bass and it didn't come out so in hoping it's gonna stay there until it dies

 

[W|M]

Send in lots of mosquitoes so that it over-eats and dies of eating too much