@Nathaniel Hmm. The Nathaniel I know in person is a reform Presbyterian, a leading Wikipedian, and keeps his Wikipedia identity separate from his name.
@BenKovitz Oh, I was replying to your line about the verbal feeling of participles.
Do you know about the grey arrows in chat?
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@QPaysTaxes School and university. You're learning it in school now?
Good for you!
Excellent!
@QPaysTaxes Yes, at least to people who are interested in language. Why?
@QPaysTaxes See this, especially the second comment: Allow deleting a tag wiki or excerpt. I misspoke, a moderator can delete it, but it's often not helpful
@C.M.Weimer Ah, forgot about that; no one brought it up on the meta post. I prefer BC/AD, but what do you expect from a reformed Presbyterian :)
@QPaysTaxes Because the Olmypic games were held every four years and the names of the winners recorded, it became standard practice for a while to date everything to its Olympic year.
@QPaysTaxes I'm not Christian, and it doesn't bother me. Whether one agrees with it or not, there's no doubt that Christianity is a huge part of our common heritage and language. I'm OK with either decision, though.
Whether we like it or not (I don't care for it either), it is the standard academic practice now, even if some academics writing for a popular audience skip it. (Rather, it's perceived as the best practice now, and honestly, there isn't anything current and better.)
@QPaysTaxes Well, the various religions are part of the cultural vocabulary. Mostly I think we should follow the cultural vocabulary—that's what a language is.
That's not to say that 100% of the papers I've heard and monographs I've read use it, but it's used in academia without question, and those that still use BC/AD are seen as holdouts. This is Classics I'm in. No idea about other fields.
Likely not at all observed in sciences.
The reactionaries them.
<foghorn>(That's a bit of a joke there son.)</foghorn>
@QPaysTaxes If you're very comfortable with reading Latin, I say pick up a grammar and jump right in. Otherwise, Hansen and Quinn is a very good textbook.
@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.
@Cerberus Even though I can barely express myself in Latin, I'm frequently finding myself dissatisfied when trying to say something in English, preferring to switch to a Latin way of saying it.
Now, now, thank you, but no need for that. I actually forget what I can no do. Have to read to see if anything needs to be done, quid mihi agendum est.
@C.M.Weimer Actually, my main interest in getting better with Latin is to read stuff from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. That's another reason I didn't want this SE turned into a Classics SE.
OK I think your first sentio sentence is possible, in which quasi modifies only Trimalchio. Although in prose you'd probably have to add me as the 'subject' of the a.c.i.
I don't know whether sentio can be constructed with ut.
@QPaysTaxes I'm not intending to make it an indirect statement. I'm just trying for an accusative-and-infinitive, roughly analogous to "I feel myself almost to be a Trimalchio."
@QPaysTaxes You won't be able to freely edit them. You'll be able to approve other people's edits. You need 2000 in private beta to edit without approval.
@Cerberus AH, I was wondering about that. We have all these little conventions for how to extend concepts—not usually covered as grammar, but clearly an important part of it.
