Classicism is a lifestyle

[DJ Twissta]

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DJ Twissta

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DJ Twissta

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cz75gsc

What are you doing on an online internet forum based on anime?

gonk I like telling Christians that they have a lot of bigotry based on mistranslations and misinterpretations of text from antiquity.

Seriously, It's a good waste of time.

but you can do that anywhere xD
you can even do that in RL :3

Nah, everyone I know are atheists. I am rarely ever in the company of fundamental theists. Gaia reminds me that they still exist.

Gaia's pretty intertaining to me though , I mean you can watch all these cats argue over
religion/non religion and they end up doing the same thing they said they hate.
feading down there religion / non-religion down other peoples throats and saying there's is superior.
which is pretty much a false statement since true I'm a Christian but I have respect for people with different religions / non religion :3 plus getting into a debate over any of that stuff over the internet seems to be a waste of time in my eyes as we could be doing something productive in RL xD
so I see your point :3

Exactly DJ. I'm a theist myself, and I wouldn't argue religion IRL amongst my colleagues, but it's so easy to tell these kids that they're all wrong. Also, it's fun. I don't feel bad for it... they need to learn on their own, not their parent's regurgitation.

true, most of the time it's how they're braught up,
but the rest of the time it's their decision of what religion/non-religion they choose
and we should respect there decision. :3

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Angel Kumara

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Angel Kumara

You might do well in the SCA if you were also about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
I am going into classics in college.

SCA...? No, I am going to be a professor of Latin and Roman antiquities.

Good for you, we need more of us in the world.

The SCA is Society for Creative Anachronists.

I am going in Mythology mostly, trying to become a professor myself.

Interesting, I specialise in Mythology myself.
Are you doing four years of Latin and Greek?

[Vest Man the Original]

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Angel Kumara

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Angel Kumara

You might do well in the SCA if you were also about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
I am going into classics in college.

SCA...? No, I am going to be a professor of Latin and Roman antiquities.

Good for you, we need more of us in the world.

The SCA is Society for Creative Anachronists.

I am going in Mythology mostly, trying to become a professor myself.

Interesting, I specialise in Mythology myself.
Are you doing four years of Latin and Greek?

I am going to start Greek next semester, i am learning Irish at the moment.

[Glemons]

I'm rather less of a classicist than a general nerd who's taken too much Latin and Art History than can possibly be healthy, but I'll add myself to your number. I'm currently working on passages of the Vulgate Bible (among other things) in my Medieval Latin class. I never did learn with Wheelock-- we used Ecce Romani in middle school and freshman year, and then moved straight to literature. Tip for anyone going into college, though: at least here, the administration is extremely reluctant to place freshman in anything but a 100-level class in first semester, even after taking both AP exams. I spent fall rereading Catullus' poetry (although to be fair, we did get the uncensored syllabus), but now I'm in 460, which suits me much better.

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Glemons

I'm rather less of a classicist than a general nerd who's taken too much Latin and Art History than can possibly be healthy, but I'll add myself to your number. I'm currently working on passages of the Vulgate Bible (among other things) in my Medieval Latin class. I never did learn with Wheelock-- we used Ecce Romani in middle school and freshman year, and then moved straight to literature. Tip for anyone going into college, though: at least here, the administration is extremely reluctant to place freshman in anything but a 100-level class in first semester, even after taking both AP exams. I spent fall rereading Catullus' poetry (although to be fair, we did get the uncensored syllabus), but now I'm in 460, which suits me much better.

I find vulgate Latin far easier. Ecce Romani is awful! I have the series and I don't see how anyone can learn anything from it. Wheelock is my life source, I still need it sometimes for fear clauses and indirect questions.

[Glemons]

It's a pretty good way to learn when the students concerned are twelve, and half of them only there because their parents thought it was a good idea-- but yes, it's not that great. (I do like the bonding it provides at NJCL conventions, though.) I get by now well enough with Bennett's New Latin Grammar, a dictionary, and The Latin Sexual Vocabulary for fun.

And agreed, the Vulgate is rather easier. Still, it's the first time I've been translating prose in nearly three years, so I could do with some easing in.

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At the moment I am translating Suetonius, he is brutal. I would like to know where these writers get off on making their own grammatical rules.

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cz75gsc

What are you doing on an online internet forum based on anime?

this is the lifestyle forum