Useful Latin quote...

[fajrdrako]

Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est.
-- Anonymous.

What I really want to find, though: a year or two ago I saw a .sig which said, in Latin: "Anything written in Latin sounds erudite" and in Elvish "anything written in Elvish sounds beautiful". But I didn't write it down and haven't seen it since. Bother.

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[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Converstional Latin! What a nifty thought. If you ever do find one, let me know -- I'd happily make the drive to Ottawa once a week for that particular class [-;

And chagrin, again: your mention of textbooks reminds me that I have at least two of them, here, found on the Barnes & Noble sale rack or maybe on the used-books table at the local community college bookstore... and I should certainly enjoy the rest of my winter much more, were I to dive into one and retool my edification. Not?

Trivia: in Frank Herbert's Dune books, the name of the subtle sisterhood, the Bene Gesserit, is actually a form of the Latin to be, in an incredibly obscure tense, translating something like: "She/he/it will have done well." I learned this in my last few weeks of the final year of university-level Latin, and I was dismayed that no one else in the class seemed at all impressed at my discovery. Hmph... don't they know a thing about great literature?

Anyway, knowing the Bene Gesserit, of course the way they would translate their own name would be: "She will have done well."

The road of learning goes ever on....

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And Latin is especially rich in variety, meaning and lore. Not to mention history. I wish I could spend more time with it! (And Esperanto and Anglo-Saxon and French and so on....)

I read a fascinating article about Hittite yesterday.... no time or energy to comment on it now, but I'll try to remember tomorrow.