This board is a composition workshop, like a writers' workshop: post your work with questions about style or vocabulary, comment on other people's work, post composition challenges on some topic or form, or just dazzle us with your inventive use of galliambics.
I wanted to translate the English, "It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think thoughts that no one else has thought before."
I wrote:
Scelus scribere hoc est. Scelus cogitare cogitationes est quam nemo prius cogiterat.
Is this correct? I don't think I should have gone into an indirect statement, nor do I think the subjunctive was necessary (for the second sentence). However, I could easily be wrong .
Scelus scribere hoc est. Scelus cogitare cogitationes est *quas*nemo prius *cogitavit*.
quas - relative which goes back to a plural noun(cogitationes).
Perfect Ind., your main verb is in the present.
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