The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXII

[cardgame]

Not if you never try them

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Not if you never try them

Even without trying them I'd guess you could see a difference. Unless you have some really bad meth, or even worse peanut butter.

 

[Traitorfish]

The drink must not be so bad then, as Cthulhu was defeated by being run over with a motorboat (or whatever, I don't recall the story too well).

Broadly, yes, only Cthulu is hangovers, and the motorboat is the Irn Bru.

The existential dread just plays itself.

 

[Takhisis]

The Scottish weather also helps to bring a Lovecraftian feel to everything.

Why would you deprive yourself of a universal experience? Even if it's disappointing?

Among my friends it is a universal experience to experiment with drugs. I don't see the point.

 

[Borachio]

I'm a lot more regretful about things that I didn't do than I am about anything that I did.

Lucky you!

 

[Hrothbern]

A few more regrets can't hurt.

Trying out everything just for the experience
sounds to me as a pretty empty life

 

[Lohrenswald]

Well, it's like how Lovecraft never actually describes what Cthulu looks like.

That's not true

even if you were to claim that the statues don't necessarily resemble him, cthulhu is partially directly described, including the octopus head

 

[Traitorfish]

yeah i hate fun too.

 

[Lohrenswald]

It wasn't funny to begin with

 

[Traitorfish]

Thank God we have a German around to tell us what is and is not fun.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Thank God we have a German around to tell us what is and is not fun.

Yes, but you could also listen to the Norwegian.
If you had just used some other eldritcht thing instead of Cthulu, everything would be fine.
Lovecraft really gets away too often with describing something as indescribable.

 

[GinandTonic]

Some people say you should try everything once.

I don't subscribe to that.

Methamphetamine, base-jumping, and working at an abbatoir spring to mind, for some reason.

But folk dancing and incest sound OK?

 

[Borachio]

Hmm. I'm not too sure about folk dancing, tbh.

And I can't speak for your family of course but in my case incest doesn't appeal at all.

 

[Mouthwash]

And I can't speak for your family of course but in my case incest doesn't appeal at all.

My dear Borachio, another thing you won't even try?

 

[Borachio]

Yeah. There's quite a list of them, isn't there?

Luckily there's still a substantial lot of other things in the world. More than I'll ever have time for.

And there's the thing. Even if I tried to try everything in the world I wouldn't be able to.

 

[Takhisis]

tl;dr from the above: Borachio and GinandTonic are about to start a Morris dancing group.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Thank God we have a German around to tell us what is and is not fun.

I don't understand how you can think tiresome clichés and falsehoods make for jokes

 

[Takhisis]

A joke being a cliché is not exactly uncommon.

 

[sophie]

Anybody good with Latin? I'm working my way through Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, and I'm struggling with the bolded clause below:

Suberat et alia non inrationabilis, ut opinor, causa, quae uel sola sufficere posset ad haec scribenda conpelleret, nutrimentum uidelicet in me inpensum et perpetua, postquam in aula eius conuersari coepi, cum ipso ac liberis eius amicitia; qua me ita sibi deuinxit debitoremque tam uiuo quam mortuo constituit, ut merito ingratus uideri et iudicari possem, si ego tot beneficiorum in me conlatorum inmemor clarissima et inlustrissima hominis optime de me meriti gesta silentio praeterirem patererque uitam eius, quasi qui numquam uixerit, sine litteris ac debita laude manere; cui scribendae atque explicandae non meum ingeniolum, quod exile et paruum, immo poene nullum est, sed Tullianam par erat desudare facundiam.

I get the gist of what the clause is saying; that composing [this biography] is so difficult that it would stretch not only his own (Einhard's) capacities for eloquence (which are indeed slim and scarcely existent) but would even cause someone on the level of Tullius (Cicero) to sweat.

What I'm struggling to understand is why the subjects of the relative clause (introduced by cui), namely "meum ingeniolum" and "Tullianam facundiam" are in the accusative. As far as I can tell it's not indirect speech. Although the forms being subject accusatives would explain it, and indeed would also point to why desudo is in its infinitive form, I don't see a clause or verb introducing the indirect speech.

Beyond that, They aren't objects of the gerundives (scribendae/explicandae). They aren't future passive conjugations; for that est and erat would have to be sunt and erant, respectively. Dative of possession constructions don't take the accusative. There is no accusative agent (I think?). I don't see what it could be.

 

[Snerk]

A joke being a cliché is not exactly uncommon.

That's what she said.