CHAT: Latin scansion and whisky

> Date:         Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:27:26 +0100
> From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
> At 1:15 pm +0100 10/11/99, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> >> Date:         Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:09:41 +0100
> >> From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
> >As Irina said, it seemed to scan better. In my naive Danish-based
> >stress scansion, that is. And forgetting that hi:c is long.
>
> But in the quantitative scansion of the classical manner:
>  _      _   . . -  -  -     ( - heavy syllable; . light syllable)
> lin gu'hic tu a po na tur                                        ?
And forgetting that po:no: has a long o too... I should never leave
home without my Latin dictionary.

> >Anyway, all this waffling about is what comes of you not attending the
> >official London CONLANG pubcrawls. You could have put us right from
> >the start.
>
> Sorry  :=(
> But whether you'd be put right, I don't know.  Malt clouds the wits :)
I know. If I post something incoherent this evening, it's because my
officemate is arranging a whisky tasting after work. 6 bottles of
single cask full strength malt from the Scotch Whisky Society, for 25
people.

> Sorry - I was hoping that I might possibly be able to make the London
> meeting (pubcrawl??) - but there was no way I could get there on the
> appointed week end.  We must meet somewhen as IIRC you're spending a year
> in Reading.  Maybe somewhen in the Spring?
Nah, it wasn't really a pubcrawl. We talked a lot about going to pubs
while walking around, but we ended up eating both lunch and dinner in
unlicensed restaurants. However, the t-shirt was born during the
second round of beers at the one pub we did go to.

I should be here in Reading for 2 years, so there'll be other chances
to meet. Not in London, necessarily, I've got a nice little car and
need some excuses to run it around the countryside --- and taking a
car into London strikes me as suicidal folly.

> Meantime I'll be lying tonight turning the Latin over & over in my mind.
Don't sweat it---Fabian might not even include it, since it's in a
conlang used for international communication. (Though I imagine that
the imperial bureaucracy did not in fact use the classical language,
but something more vulgar).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)