who, not whom

I assume it refers to the road, so it could be something like, she, the road, is 100 feet wide.

@Adam is, ea, id can also be a demonstrative adjective, "this, that".

@cmw Ahh, that makes a lot more sense.

I was this year's old when I just realized there's a second pun in Nero CD burning software.

Everyone gets Nero = emperor who burns Rome. That's fairly obvious.

But I only just now, when explaining it to someone else, figured out that CD and city sound alike.

Nero burns the city, Nero burns the CD.

Mind blown.

@Joonas: Some help, please? In cmw's answer, latin.stackexchange.com/a/19314/1982, the first example includes the line, "sed neque longioribus quam oportet hyperbatis...". I got this to, "but don't you exaggerate any longer than is necessary". Is this correet? Verb "hyperbatis" is a new one on me--I couldn't find it. (I did ask cmw but he didn't reply. Both Seb and he disliked the example.)

@cmw Sleeper pun!

Oh wow, declension in Akkadian is a lot simpler, at least for nominative.

@tony Sorry tony, I overlooked it.

hyperbatis is ablative plural of hyperbaton.

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@tony You caused that linkage yourself! Whenever there is a link to another question (or its answer) within a question, an answer, or a comment, the system provides a link both ways in the side panel under "Linked". In addition, it tries to detect related content automatically and collects it under "Related".

If you ever think that two posts are closely related, adding a comment under one of them about the other one is a good idea.

I seem to recall this coming up in conversation a long while back that learning German was important for classical studies. I see there's quite a few works written in German (at least for Akkadian, I haven't checked for Latin though I'm sure it's true there as well). Does anyone have recommendations on grammars and textbooks for german?

Naturally, there are ton... :P

@cmw I'll continue here lest the comment chain get out of control. I'm not a huge fan of the word "language" myself, but the word "Latin" does feel a bit odd alone.

I'd be happy with a Latin-only title. I was just wondering whether that's permissible. Your example of Judaism is great! With that in mind, a mere "LINGVA LATINA" would be great.

That should be quite easy to understand to anyone.

I also greatly prefer LINGVA LATINA to "language" (or styled as LANGVAGE).

I think we still have a challenge in that despite the name of the site it also encompasses other languages.

@JoonasIlmavirta That's true. We could also do something like LINGVA LATINA with a subtitle of some kind, like ET ALIA ANTIQVA

@Adam I think "and related topics" is understood in just about any title of something like a whole website. I'm not opposed to adding something like that if our users can agree on a wording and want it enough, but I'm not convinced of a need yet.

@JoonasIlmavirta I also mentioned to tony perhaps adding SPQR to a banner of sorts.

That would include then languages within the Roman empire.

(Which, by the way, going by that definition, would include Coptic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and even Akkadian!)

@cmw Sermo populusque Romanus?

@JoonasIlmavirta It works!

+1

Although perhaps better would be Sermones Populorumque Romanorum.

@cmw What does the -que do there? I can't parse it as "and".

@JoonasIlmavirta Oops, ah, um...

If we need an official play on words, I quite like that quick idea of mine. That inscribed on a temple somewhere in the background could be fun.

Sermones Populorum Qui [mundum] Romanum [inhabitant].

@JoonasIlmavirta I still would go plural with it but yeah, it's nifty. Post it!

@cmw Feci.

@cmw The truly scandalous error is that the icon seems to show the Amphitheatrum Flavianum!

@cmw I thought it went a little bit further about burning Rome or burning a (CD-)ROM. It never occurred to me to parse "CD-ROM" as "city (of) Rome".

@SebastianKoppehel Didn't the construction start just after Nero's reign? Perhaps one could rationalize it as something rising from the ashes Nero left.

@JoonasIlmavirta Let me elaborate: It shows the Amphitheatrum Flavianum on fire.

@JoonasIlmavirta It gets deeper!

@SebastianKoppehel Enough time has passed, I believe, that we've moved from horror at the tragedy to humor in its absurdity.

But indeed, it was apparently named Colosseum after the Colossus Neronis, so ...

@SebastianKoppehel The real name should return: Amphitheatrum Flavianum.

@SebastianKoppehel Ah, oh, well, that's... wrong.

@cmw Minime gentium! Immature loquere!

I've played around with that idea a bit: bastisoft.de/temp/design1.jpg

By the way, the font should absolutely be Trajan, but because I have no license for that, it's Times New Roman.

@SebastianKoppehel What did you think of those banner ideas? Is a snippet of a Latin codex, if it can be freely sourced, too messy?

@SebastianKoppehel I do like this mock up. The banner has that sandy-harena color to it.

@cmw I actually like the idea of a codex very much. Maybe with an illustrated start letter (don't know what those are really called, I'm sure they have a name).

@SebastianKoppehel Historiated initial

I have access to Trajan through my Adobe cloud subscription, but I don't recall the licensing

lol

If they care, they could issue a C&D for its use without paying for the license.

Is there an open-source Trajan replacement?

I don't know which plans include it for sure; I'm just paying for the one that gives the full suite.

Since it's going on a site owned by SE, they'd prob need to be the ones to license it. I wouldn't be shocked if they have it and can use it through some kind of font package or their own cloud sub.

I also like Joonas' temple columns, those could go to the left of the script.

@Adam I would hope SE would not use our mockups and do a professional design, and then they obviously also have to worry about IP. Same goes for the parchment background, which is from here: freepik.com/free-photo/…

@SebastianKoppehel Like they have professional mods? :)

When you are looking through Adobe's font, you should also check out Roma and Romanum. The latter is from tracings, if I recall.

Oh, it's called Romana, not romanum.

@Adam Roma Shaded looks similar to the LLPSI cover :)

oh wow, it does!