Still on 145. Moved onto II - translate into Latin
Number 3. The answer gives the plural acc of inimicus (inimicos) with a short o. Is this just because there's no need as it will always be long? Or have I yet again missed the point? If so, don't tell me how, I'll go back and investigate.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
It's a mistake. Well spotted. Did you get the other long vowel?
By the way most texts other than those specially prepared for students don't have macron markings.
By the way most texts other than those specially prepared for students don't have macron markings.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
Yes, I realise that. Pretty essential for us beginners though, no?seneca2008 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:47 pm It's a mistake. Well spotted. Did you get the other long vowel?
By the way most texts other than those specially prepared for students don't have macron markings.
A lot of people when writing in Spanish leave off the accents. After all, everybody knows that the first a in águila is stressed, so why bother with the diacritics? I disagree intensely. Not only because I'm a pedant, but even with context, there is often ambiguity. It seems to me that in Latin, without macrons, certainly amongst non-experts, there will be a lot of head-scratching.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
In the first place information on the length of vowels can be found in the dictionary. You can see some general rules in Allen and Greenough and other grammars eg here https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin ... s-quantity
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
Of course, the ancient Romans themselves never used macrons. As for how essential they are, that depends. If you use the traditional accent, yeah. If you use the Spanish one (like me), or the Italian (Ecclesiastical or Church Latin), not so much. I do agree that it's trivial, though.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
The grandfather of the macron: Apex (diacritic)persequor wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:32 pm Of course, the ancient Romans themselves never used macrons. As for how essential they are, that depends. If you use the traditional accent, yeah. If you use the Spanish one (like me), or the Italian (Ecclesiastical or Church Latin), not so much. I do agree that it's trivial, though.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
Fascinating. I was not aware of this usage.
The Hermeneumata Pseudositheana, a post-classical (3rd century A.D.) set of phrasebooks to teach Latin to Greek speakers, does not use macrons. At least, the transcription on the Bibliotheca Augustana doesn't.
(http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chron ... _col0.html) I don't know if the MSS used for the edition (Goetz, Leipzig, 1892) used them or not.
An interesting question, for sure.
The Hermeneumata Pseudositheana, a post-classical (3rd century A.D.) set of phrasebooks to teach Latin to Greek speakers, does not use macrons. At least, the transcription on the Bibliotheca Augustana doesn't.
(http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chron ... _col0.html) I don't know if the MSS used for the edition (Goetz, Leipzig, 1892) used them or not.
An interesting question, for sure.
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Re: A trivial one for today - missing macron
Ancient texts do lots of things, like not using word division, which I dont think anyone nowadays would advocate!Of course, the ancient Romans themselves never used macrons. As for how essential they are, that depends.
Knowing the lengths of vowels is of course crucial if you are reading verse.
It isn't a trivial question at all and I was glad that the OP raised it.
Persuade tibi hoc sic esse, ut scribo: quaedam tempora eripiuntur nobis, quaedam subducuntur, quaedam effluunt. Turpissima tamen est iactura, quae per neglegentiam fit. Et si volueris attendere, maxima pars vitae elabitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tota vita aliud agentibus.