Damoetas wrote:You even start to see the nuances and reasons why certain word orders are preferred in different contexts. Maybe the hardest thing, which I'm still working on, is to mentally process a line of poetry, in left-to-right order, on the first pass, correctly construing all modifiers with their heads. I find that I can do this sporadically, sometimes more often, sometimes less, particularly depending on the author and how familiar I am with his tendencies. But I would like to be able to do it consistently, (almost) all the time.
gigas phoberos wrote:I would like to know what do you consider the most difficult thing about Latin?
dlb wrote:gigas phoberos wrote:I would like to know what do you consider the most difficult thing about Latin?
My memory!
adrianus wrote:An ill-prepared, disobedient mind rarely manages to successfully recall words not used frequently.
dlb wrote:adrianus wrote:An ill-prepared, disobedient mind rarely manages to successfully recall words not used frequently.
I do not believe, my dear Adrianus, it is a question of frequency but one of age!
dlb wrote:I do not believe, my dear Adrianus, it is a question of frequency but one of age!
Lex wrote:I'm not sure what disobedience (to what?) has to do with anything, except Adrianus being a prig.
adrianus wrote:People will always surprise you. From not knowing, insults! Yes, "prig" does begin with the letter "p".
Semper sunt qui nos opprimant. Ex ignorantiâ injurias! Ita, "prig" anglicè per "p" litteram incipitur.
adrianus wrote:dlb wrote:I do not believe, my dear Adrianus, it is a question of frequency but one of age!
Damoetas wrote:Yes, I am sometimes surprised at how quickly people become insulting in this forum.
Essorant wrote:"Seemed" is not much to go by.
Lex wrote:It seemed as though Adrianus was becoming insulting, by saying that anybody who has trouble memorizing has an ill-prepared and "disobedient" (un-disciplined?) mind. But maybe I pulled the trigger too quickly on the counter-insults? Maybe English is not Adrianus' native language, in which case I should cut him some slack.
Lex wrote:he should calibrate his use of words better
dlb wrote:But I do have an "an ill-prepared, disobedient very old" mind & that I willingly submit to the study of Latin henceforth for possible correction.
dlb wrote:However, for this ... never-ending nature of troubled experience, ... I serve the Risen Savior who gives life abundantly, mostly w/o troubled experiences due to the presence of His Comforter - the Holy Spirit!
adrianus wrote:Why you should be insulted by the human condition is beyond me...
adrianus wrote:...as is why you should imagine that saying that isn't good English...
Lex wrote:The way you used the word "disobedient" (to what or whom?) was not the way a native speaker would use it; he would have used something along the lines of "undisciplined". Maybe "disobedient" is a more direct translation of the Latin p-word, but it is not natural in the English sentence. An educated native speaker of English should realize that. Plainly, plunderers who perpetrate such prominently perceptible and pronounced pummelings of the English peoples' parlance are of preposterously poor pedigree. *grin*
Lex wrote:The way you used the word "disobedient" (to what or whom?) was not the way a native speaker would use it; he would have used something along the lines of "undisciplined". Maybe "disobedient" is a more direct translation of the Latin p-word, but it is not natural in the English sentence. An educated native speaker of English should realize that. Plainly, plunderers who perpetrate such prominently perceptible and pronounced pummelings of the English peoples' parlance are of preposterously poor pedigree. *grin*
he would have used something along the lines of "undisciplined".
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