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7:30 PM

quomodo possum explicare quam multa te amo. Is this written correctly?

7:43 PM

@JohhanSantana I'm confused by "multa". Without that, I read quomodo possum explicare quam te amo as something like "How am I able to explain how much I love you".

It's very possible I'm not reading it correctly, though.

Sebastian Koppehel

It should in any case be amem (indirect question).

I think quam multum or quantum should be OK. Quam multa does indeed sound strange.

But I agree with @Adam that a simple quam seems the most obvious way.

Johhan Santana

8:04 PM

yeah, i was too sure about that either. quantum seems to make more sense?

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8:17 PM

Q: Pronunciation of "ll" in the Romance languages

I have noticed that all the Romance languages (Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, and French) usually pronounce the "ll" like the "y" in "yacht". This feature is called "yeísmo"." Each of these languages also use other sounds for "ll" like the "j" in "jam", like the "sh" in

Johhan Santana

8:36 PM

is ex always followed by a dative?

Sebastian Koppehel

@JohhanSantana Ex is never followed by a dative, and neither is any other preposition ;-)

Ex is always followed by an ablative.

Johhan Santana

@SebastianKoppehel ah sorry I forgot they are sometimes written the same way.

would unus ex causis mean one of the reasons?

Sebastian Koppehel

@JohhanSantana That should be una because causa is feminine, but otherwise, yes.

Johhan Santana

8:51 PM

@SebastianKoppehel awesome! thank you @SebastianKoppehel

Joonas Ilmavirta

@JohhanSantana With the gender modification a @SebastianKoppehel points out, that works well. Another common option is una causarum.

Adam

9:23 PM

@JoonasIlmavirta The genitive is definitely the closest to the English to me. It's interesting using the preposition instead, though. One out of the reasons.

Sebastian Koppehel

9:44 PM

@Adam I believe super strict prescriptive grammars (i.e. Antibarbarus) say you should only use the genetive when you are saying "the one of them ... the other ..." etc.

As in the famous "quarum unam incolunt Belgae."

But when you are saying "one of the senators proposed a law," it is unus ex/de senatoribus legem tulit.