Salvete amici, quid agetis?

Random thought: For english speakers, do you guys thinking teaching latin first using English word order would make it easier for an English-speaker to learn, or just set bad habits and make for confusion later?

@cmw: The assassin or his employer? In the law, i think, they are equally culpable.

@Adam: Probably, as long as it's made clear, to the student, that Latin word-order is flexible.

@Adam I think beginners profit from short sentences with straightforward word order. But English word order specifically done no real problem, does it? I think the fact that the verb tends to come last in Latin is really the least of an English speaker's worries...

done = solves (autocorrect)

Ecce aenigma Latinum! Est in vetere ecclesia Hamburgensi inventum. Potestisne solvere?

(Videte totam imaginem in ecclesia Sancti Jacobi pariete affixam, in qua hoc aenigma legitur.)

Errr, I guess ecclesia should rather be templum?

@SebastianKoppehel Wow, every nice!

The lower German really looks like Dutch.

Godt aver uns = God rules over us? God watches over us?

God is above us? God is superior to us?

Most of the German words are in the Latin, but not all, such as hoverdig and ewig.

And I don't know what to make of the Latin word be.

I suppose super+be = hoverdig in the vocative!

I suppose you could use supernus to indicate ewig...

The only one I really don't get is the first bis.

@Cerberus Damn, I should have remembered we have a Dutch speaker here :) yes, hoverdig = superbus and ewig = supernus

(Ignosce quaeso responsum tardum, infantulus mihi erat in cubili collocandus.)

@SebastianKoppehel Yeah I figured those out...though the first bis I do not get.

@Cerberus I didn't either, because I didn't realise there is a verb superbire = superbus esse ...

@SebastianKoppehel Hmm I looked up superbo but forgot to look up superbio...

Makes sense!

Thanks for posting that!

I'm not normally into puzzles, but this was nice.

My pleasure, found this in a guide of Latin inscriptions in the local churches made for school classes :)

Cool.