> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:00:45 +0100
> From: Fabian <rhialto@...>
> Ok, I have tried to compile everything sent to the list so far.
> Latin [Crassus et Claudia]
> Hic venit lingua tua.
> Lingua hic tua ponatur
With a length mark (macron) over the last a, if you want to be fancy.
> Submited by Steg Belsky and Irina help-I-cant-spell-it.
Actually the second version is mine. So of course I vote for it. Plus
I think Steg's version is a little too literal. (But what's hard about
Rempt-Drijfhout?)
> Apparently, this is a trimeter.
Well, the second one is, because it has three stressed syllables...
and the stress goes /UU/UU/U. But Latin meter really should go by
quantity, and I forget whether 'tuus' has a long u.
Where is Ray when we need him?
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)