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xXShadowXx [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

Millenials and Gen Z of Lemmy: how much Latin and Ancient Greek do you know?

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Millenials and Gen Z of Lemmy: how much Latin and Ancient Greek do you know?

xXShadowXx [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago
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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Null

  • Skunk@jlai.lu
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    Cum gallo et gladio.

    That’s the only thing I know in Latin cause I want it to be my family coat of arms.

    It means “with a rooster and a sword”, but you need to understand French to discover the power of that sentence: “Avec un coq et une épée”, or as famously said in slang, “Avec ma bite et mon couteau suisse” (with my dick and Swiss Army knife).

    It a saying we use to say that we don’t need preparation or equipment to do something.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Heh. Cum.

      • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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        cum cum et cum

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    Latin: I can still bang out the five declensions and the four conjugations in my sleep. Trying to read a text, the sentence structure always finds ways to trip me up.

    Greek: very patchy, I know a lot of words but my grammar is shite

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    I learned Latin in school for several years; I only learned to understand and translate it, not actively speak or write it, and have by now forgotten some of it.

    I do not know any Ancient Greek at all, I might recognize some words from other languages.

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    I know some dinosaur names …

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    The only Latin I know is from the thaumcraft mod

    Surprisingly it gives you a lot of the roots you need to figure out words in other languages

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  • Vanth@reddthat.com
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    Millennial. I had to take a root words class in grade school, with the promise it would help us become lawyers and doctors. It did not. It has helped me win a couple pub trivia rounds.

    • FindME@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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      I still have the .pdf of that textbook, promising myself that one day I’ll go through it again.

      HA!

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    Gen X here,

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    I am a native Spanish speaker which makes me able to pick up the meaning of about 30-40% of words in Latin, although the semantics often confuse me. As for Ancient Greek (and some Latin words that look nothing like Spanish too) I’ve picked up a fair amount of terms from scientific terms, names and mythology.

    I don’t know how much all this translates into, I’ve never formally studied either.

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    Semper Fidelis Tyrannosaurus

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      Always faithful terrible lizard?

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    Not much Greek but I can make a good guess at Latin words having learnt quite a bit of French.

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    None

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      Me too, thanks.

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