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Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, February 5, 2001, 22:52
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

>> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:21:28 -0500 >> From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> >> >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>> To be pedantic, "of" preceeds the dative/accusative, so "... of dato." >> And don't forget "...to the conclusione..." :) > >Argh, you beat me... but here, "to" must gubernare the accusativum, >since "ad" does so Latine.
But dativum in English!
> >> >Wouldn't that be fun? hehehe >> >> Ah, but you should also do the same for Graecis words; and would >> have to differentiare words borrowed from Old, Middle or Nova >> Frankisca _and_ have to declinare them prope... > >"New" is a proprum Germanicum word.
Bugger.
> >> For what it's worth, the Romani seem to have done this at least to >> an extense with Graeca words, as most Latin gramaires have paragraphos >> on all the words declinata in Graeca (musice, etc.). > >extensae (in ablativo). Latinae.
Do we haven to gon all the waye back? I thought Anglo-Normanne was good enough!
> >> Urk. My Old French and Anglo-Norman aren't what they should be for >> this exercise! > >exercitio.
Drat. Gotst me twice!
> >But how deep should one dig for Latinis originales to inflectere, when >the English forma isn't realiter the same as any Latina one anyway?
Deeper and wider! Padraic.
> >Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked) >