Hmm
I think that would be a great idea! Especially if we also get example usage/sentences and any idiomatic phrases (does that apply in Latin?) along with the word & definition.
Maria vocäbulï finitï (Marie of limited vocabulary)
I think, whether or not it be new to every one, each member to be able to post one word and translation in special thread.
I’m thinking it would be something like, Words of the Day: Week of 7/28 to conserve space. There are also issues of how far everyone is in their learning, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be too much of a problem. I think it should also be more than one person responsible for it.
It does seem like most people are in favor of this idea…
[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#1979 date=1059160346]
I’m thinking it would be something like, Words of the Day: Week of 7/28 to conserve space.[/quote]
How amusing, I was just about to propose the same thing. It’s much better than cluttering up the forum with quotidian “Word of the Day” posts. I’m perfectly capable of cluttering the forum with my innumerous questions about Latin. ;D Perhaps the person who voted “spam” thought it would be the new-post-a-day method.
How do you say “word of the day” in Latin?
Verbum diëï ?
Verbum diei would work just fine. You scare me when you use fifth declension words and other things you aren’t supposed to know yet.
[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#1985 date=1059164607]
Verbum diei would work just fine. You scare me when you use fifth declension words and other things you aren’t supposed to know yet. [/quote]
I’m just that good. 
Hehehe … it’s just a side effect of having a dictionary with a grammar section at the beginning. ;D I look up an English word to discover the Latin word, then flip to the front and see which chart is a likely candidate for case endings. And fortunately for me, the example they use for 5th decl just happens to be deis.
No need to “reinvent the wheel.” Michelle Bruer Vitt has been doing this for quite some time: 393 phrases to date. Here is her listing with links to receive one new phrase at a time (FEED) or in a digest form (DIGEST).
http://mail.minnehahaacademy.net/Lists/latin-phrase/List.html<br />
Fruimini!
Magistra
[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#1985 date=1059164607]
Verbum diei would work just fine. You scare me when you use fifth declension words and other things you aren’t supposed to know yet.
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I know what a freak
[quote author=Magistra link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#1992 date=1059181502]
No need to “reinvent the wheel.” Michelle Bruer Vitt has been doing this for quite some time: 393 phrases to date. http://mail.minnehahaacademy.net/Lists/latin-phrase/List.html[/quote]
Wicked cool! I love it! Now if only I could figure out how to easily import all this into a spreadsheet so I can search for phrases later.
So far 13, absit omen, people have answered the poll. How would we organise the production of the “phrase for today”? First come, first in?
[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#1985 date=1059164607]
Verbum diei would work just fine. You scare me when you use fifth declension words and other things you aren’t supposed to know yet.
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Hey, but she IS supposed to know the grammar idea, and from there, it’s not a hard leap… It’s just another paradigm! Look at it this way - she’s being corrupted into a thorough Latin-user through forum exposure! Now, if it was an ablative absolute or a passive periphrastic or something… (No panicking, Marie… these don’t really hurt (much) and you’ll trip over them reasonably shortly I suspect… they’re just verb participles playing games with nouns, given medical-sounding names to cause students to run screaming…)
Kilmeny
I am on a hump. I have run out of gas, I can’t bring myself to do the passive any more. I hate it. Damn inflexions are nasty.
nasty tricksy
Passives. Dead easy. Where’s your problem?
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Passives. Dead easy. Where’s your problem?
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TRUCK YOU THEY ARE NOT
Only trying to help. You should try them in Greek!
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Only trying to help. You should try them in Greek!
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sorry, just frustrated…I can’t move on until I know all these inflections for which I have insufficient zeal to learn…volat over my head…
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I am on a hump. I have run out of gas, I can’t bring myself to do the passive any more. I hate it. Damn inflexions are nasty.
nasty tricksy
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Ah, passives are like dirty dishes - you have to wash 'em whether you want to or not, and after a while you sort of get numbed to them. The trick is to keep at them until that numb feeling takes over… Then the only thing to bother you is when they appear where they shouldn’t… which, as I suspect you’ve noticed, appears to be a pet peeve of mine…
Say, does D’Ooge say anything about the Future Passive Infinitive? M&F only says, “The future passive infinitive occurs so rarely in Latin that its discussion has been omitted from this text” which was very annoying when I tripped over one, and was trying to figure out how, why and what on earth “to go” (eo/ire) was doing in the passive infinitive form… If D’Ooge explains the Future Passive Infinitive, I promise never to tease you about him again, and I pledge to go acquire a “Just D’Ooge It” T-shirt.
Kilmeny
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[quote author=Episcopus link=board=3;threadid=299;start=0#2082 date=1059402195]
I am on a hump. I have run out of gas, I can’t bring myself to do the passive any more. I hate it. Damn inflexions are nasty.
nasty tricksy
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Ah, passives are like dirty dishes - you have to wash 'em whether you want to or not, and after a while you sort of get numbed to them. The trick is to keep at them until that numb feeling takes over… Then the only thing to bother you is when they appear where they shouldn’t… which, as I suspect you’ve noticed, appears to be a pet peeve of mine…
Say, does D’Ooge say anything about the Future Passive Infinitive? M&F only says, “The future passive infinitive occurs so rarely in Latin that its discussion has been omitted from this text” which was very annoying when I tripped over one, and was trying to figure out how, why and what on earth “to go” (eo/ire) was doing in the passive infinitive form… If D’Ooge explains the Future Passive Infinitive, I promise never to tease you about him again, and I pledge to go acquire a “Just D’Ooge It” T-shirt.
Kilmeny
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You are right dirty disheseseses.
With reference to D’Ooge, I need not convince you that D’Ooge is the man. Moreover I be not so insecure as to look through his book to find Future Passive Infinitive. He is the man regardless. Mock me. Mock him. But he is a professor who has written the best book for Latin Beginners - and, in the end - for intermediate learners also. And believe me I have looked. Cambridge/Oxford course, Wheelcock etc for those care I not.
passives … hmmm… easier than declensions at least. never had much problem with passive. it was more like the german translation of passive future 2 that got me ???. still no idea how to translate most of the stuff into german, no wonder i always fail my latin translation exams… my latin’s ok, but my german isn’t 