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Yeah, I enjoy it a lot; I'm studying CS and linguistics, with a minor in Classics, currently

@EthanBierlein The same kind of wrong as banana? :P

Having a project or a dream for a book is not bad, but I find it fruitful to be able to complete small things and get a feeling of achievement. It's also good for the learning process to fully complete something, let go of it, and go do something else better.

You should be able to say "you were" without mentally listing eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis.

@luchonacho Yeah, the LaTeX discussion is getting off-topic in the family tree question. :)

@ktm5124 Rarely do I see someone enjoy their answer downvoted.

How can the word madam mean both "a polite form of address for a woman or lady" and "a woman who runs a brothel"? This word is about as stable as Uranium-235.

Hi everyone, some shameless promotion: for those interested in the (ancient and modern) Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.), the Area 51 proposal for Semitic Languages may be of interest.

There's a new Greek proposal at Area 51.

@Cerberus The Latin versions of the texts underline the need for continuing Latin educational activities...

I have an upvote waiting with your name on it.

I think our voice can be a medicine. We see it happen in talk therapy when patients are treated for depresssion. But our voice can also be corrosive.

@JoonasIlmavirta Anglicization is getting out of hand.

I caught a favorable breeze on the vast seas of sleep and sleeplessness, but then that breeze dissipated rather quickly, and now I am once again adrift.

Have you guys heard of the Open Greek and Latin Project‌​?

I think we should finally implement a reason to close for insufficient effort (including blatant homework questions). There is a meta discussion for this thing and a recent example of a question that would benefit from a more appropriate reason to close. What do you folks think?

Came naturally, I do apologize.

@JoonasIlmavirta Reminds me of the old saying "Latinists never decline sex."

@ktm5124 If only anyone sung that in Latin with a similar orchestra...

Rule of thumb: If no one has given an answer explaining what you want to explain, answering is a good idea, even if it doesn't constitute a full answer.

@Rafael Understandable!

Should have stayed Latin!

Also, quaccula sounds super fake.

@ktm5124 Agreed! An SE site with a strong user base is a great resource.

There seems to be some amount of confrontation in the question about the gender of homo. I hope we can maintain a mature and positive tone here. Unnecessary negativity and especially ad hominem (whether masculine or feminine) argumentation are worth flagging, especially if anyone feels offended.

Concerns like this can be asked at meta. SE staff can give answers there for everyone to see, and they know their rules.

I actually find it somewhat ironic that they seem to require high quality language from new users but that is not what I would say about some of their comments. Oh well.

There are two new answers to the Greek meta question.

On this blog, a classicist at Oxford refers to Latin as the "maths of the humanities".

Know the rules before you break the rules.

Hey, guys (and gals? do we have any gals?)—I uploaded that dictionary I was talking about to my website. It's at joelderfner.com/Humanist_Dictionary.html .

Our first gold badges just went out. Congratulations everyone!

At last Smoke Detector is tackling the problem of non-Latin posts.

Our tour is back to unicorns and daisies: latin.stackexchange.com/tour It seems that the previous example post lost one upvote due to the shortening edits and became ineligible.

After ten years, my interest still ebbs.

How about if we all behaved like the gentlemen we are, if deep inside?

@QPaysTaxes It's pretty terrible when you're trying to text in Latin.

Of course we could REALLY narrow our scope and make it both. ad Latinam Latine disputandam.

My favorite is "Let's eat Grandma"

My favorite little aside has always been "velim nolim", i.e. "willy nilly"

Thank, you Google Books.

(I spent a summer in Berlin some years ago studying German, and because of all the Bach and Schubert I'd sung I was able to fake my way through the placement test and get put in an intermediate level. But then for the first two weeks I could only say things in this very, very archaic language: "Kind sir, hast thou a pencil?"

@JoelDerfner In my experience, most of the time established sites wish new users/novices were more intimidated. With apologies to Ray Kinsella, if you build an expert-friendly site, the beginners will come.

Semper in vita prodest incriminare causam externam nostorum errorum.

fortasse plus vini

Google Archimedes Lewis Short. That version loads faster than the one at Perseus, although the latter has the better layout/formatting.

@Nathaniel When I first read Augustine, it was his confessions where he confessed to hating Greek and Vergil. Well, that's all I need to say about Augustine.