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I've seen that term used quite a few times while navigating Textkit, and I finally have to ask. Who makes up the Textkit team. Is it just Jeff and his high school helper or are there secret people behind the scenes? Is this some sort of alliance of super-powered Classicists? Just a thought...
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Jeff, his high school helper, the moderators, the CIA, the FBI, the American Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, Amazon.com and the IAPAL. (International Association for the Preservation of Antique Languages, a one-member society for the ressurection of Latin as a living language, headed and chaired by Episcopus.) <br /><br />Hehe. Just kidding, of course. I don't know.

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Oh my goodness...
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Have you seen Lex's signature? <br /><br />"Textkit.com directed by 40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS, 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS, 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS, 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA), REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON, AND 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM LLAMA-FRESH FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY " <br /><br />End quote. ;D

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Some people have been playing too many Maxis games...

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Jeff, his high-school helper, the moderators...<br /><br />If there are others I know not of them, and yet I'm one of *the team*!

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I try to keep a low profile around here ;)<br /><br />I'll save you the suspense:<br /><br />The Textkit Team:<br />me, a few local high school students, mods, my wife who puts up with me always buying books, paper, toner..., visitors who mail me books and a couple attorneys who constantly remind me of things I can't do.<br /><br />That's about it. Textkit is not developed by professional educators. We're all volunteers who happen to like Greek, Latin and yes, llamas!<br /><br />jeff
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Fascinating! So where do the dromedaries fit in to this whole scheme?
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They're sort of like llamas...they may even be related to llamas, although I don't know. <br /><br />Lex-you forgot alpacas! :)

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[quote author=Keesa link=board=6;threadid=686;start=0#6614 date=1064357572]<br />They're sort of like llamas...they may even be related to llamas, although I don't know. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />Who are? The Textkit Team?
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No!!! :-\ The dromedaries. :P

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[quote author=jeff link=board=6;threadid=686;start=0#6578 date=1064341997]<br />I try to keep a low profile around here ;)<br /><br />I'll save you the suspense:<br /><br />The Textkit Team:<br />me, a few local high school students, mods, my wife who puts up with me always buying books, paper, toner..., visitors who mail me books and a couple attorneys who constantly remind me of things I can't do.<br /><br />That's about it. Textkit is not developed by professional educators. We're all volunteers who happen to like Greek, Latin and yes, llamas!<br /><br />jeff<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I am impressed by the dedication of these volunteers.<br />Thanks Jeff (pass this on to your fellow volunteers)<br />Bert

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much appreciated!<br /><br />jeff
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My thanks, too! :-*

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My thanks as well! I only wish you were closer to me so I could swing by and help you out.

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Also thanks from me! I'd never really thought that people had to work to make all this happen - it's great that you (the team) have created this fantastic site. :D

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While Jeff probably considers the scanned books the biggest effort, for me this very forum will be the most enduring benefit of textkit.<br /><br />Most of us here have set ourselves to the difficult path of teaching ourselves languages unforgiving of carelessness and requiring a lot of time devoted to their study. Seeing the enthusiasm, and even the errors, of beginners is a reminder to me of how far I've come and why I started to study Greek in the first place. Seeing others clearly beyond my skill keeps me motivated on those days when I don't think I can bear to thumb through L&S or Smyth even one more time.<br /><br />So, hats off to Jeff!
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Yes, the forum is Textkit's real treasure. The PDF books are great but the Forum is equally unique.<br /><br />If you can't tell we are slowly shifting gears with this project to introduce other types of online content in addition to book downloads. I'm hopeful that in time the tutorials project will also be appreciated.<br /><br />I have tons of other ideas too - but so, so little time :'(<br />paradigm archive, reading kits, tutorial engine, visitor generated translation archive for checking work.
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Jeff:<br />I have tons of other ideas too - but so, so little time <br />paradigm archive, reading kits, tutorial engine, visitor generated translation archive for checking work<br /><br /><br />Oh Jeff..... ;D I do hope these wonderful ideas come to fruition. Considering how slow Latin is coming to me I think I could probably wait a couple years. But I do not want to, oh I definately do not! :)

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[quote author=Emma_85 link=board=6;threadid=686;start=0#6554 date=1064325246]<br />Some people have been playing too many Maxis games...<br />[/quote]<br /><br />No, watching too many Monty Python movies. <br /><br />But, hey, it could be much worse. We could all be moose. Mooses? Meese?
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Moosae?

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The correct answer is....<br /><br />...moose!<br /><br />'Moosae' would get second place by me, except that it sounds too much like 'moussai' (= muses, nominative). Somehow I wouldn't want to confuse those 9 lovely ladies with moose! ;D<br />

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I haven't gotten to the e declension yet (isn't it the fifth?) so I don't know how "moose" would decline in Latin; I had to change it to "moosa" before I could decline it. :-\ (Moosa, anyone?)

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Moussai is Greek, silly Keesa :P
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My post was Latin.

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Oh wait... so Muses, Musei? What do Muses have to do with mooses anyways?<br /><br />I'm confused as always. ::) ???
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And hiding it under inimitable elegance of expression? ;)<br /><br />If moose was spelled moosa instead of moose, it would be in the A-declension, I could decline it, and the plural would be moosae. <br /><br />But Raya said that "moosae" was pronounced too much like "moussai" (Greek), and she wouldn't want to get the muses mixed up with meeses. <br /><br />So I replied that I had had to decline it moosae, since I couldn't decline "moose" yet. (If "moose" was Latin, what would the plural be, someone? I'm not in the e-declension yet.) <br /><br />And that is apparently where we were when you got lost. <br /><br /> ;D

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I was confused to learn that the word "moose" was not in any Latin dictionary that I have access to. I looked up the word moose and apparently they are mainly found in the Americas, so I guess that explains it.
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If moose was a Latin word, how would the plural be formed?

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The word "moose" could not be a Latin nominative unless it were some kind of third declension. I'm sure there is a Neo-Latin word though.
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[quote author=benissimus link=board=6;threadid=686;start=15#6878 date=1064528915]<br />I was confused to learn that the word "moose" was not in any Latin dictionary that I have access to. I looked up the word moose and apparently they are mainly found in the Americas, so I guess that explains it.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Are you telling me you didn't know what a moose was until today??? Even here we learn about major foreign animals in school ;)
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I knew what a moose was, but I didn't know that they weren't found in Europe. :P
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oh, that's a relief. I nearly died of shock there :)
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We can do this in three ways: A & G gives a paradigm for 3rd dec. neuter nouns ending in -e (sec. 69) with sedile -is as the example, so assuming moose -is, the plural would be moosia.<br /><br />If, however, we go by pronunciation rather than by spelling, Eng. moose is pretty similar to Latin mus muris, so we'd end up with moores.<br /><br />Or we can use the biological name alces alces, making the plural alces alces as well. So the plural (in the nominative at least) is the same as the singular in Latin as well as in English

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There you go, Lex-we could all be alces alces, instead of llamas. :)

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The forum is great but is addictive and thus time consuming. <br /><br />The great achievement is all these wonderful books that I certainly would never have found. Textkit in one way or another may have shaped my life.<br /><br />And bishop-triangular-hats off to the person who said "moose, moosis" (n). I would have said thus also.

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You do realize how annoying a double-o is to pronounce in Latin? The only word I can even think of is the name Laocoon, and that's just because it's crazy Greek. ::)
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