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classics-cassandra · 3 years
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Thinking about them*
*Loquax and Antiloquax from Cambridge Latin course II
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caeciliuswashere · 3 years
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“Translate this passage into good english”
umm ok Mr Pastpaper, i’ll translate it but i can’t say it’ll be coherent sentences
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schemermentality · 5 years
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Me walking into my latin lit exam knowing full well I’m about to bullshit the whole thing
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shoddymusicalmemes · 6 years
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Listen. Nisus and Euryalus? GAY ICONS.
in other news, language paper went pretty well but What was that 50 mark translation???? I was not expecting that...
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gingerly-writing · 5 years
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I saw one of your tags on a Plato quote where you said you hated Plato and I'm curious, why do you hate him? All I know about him is that he's some dead Greek philosopher
here is an actual explanation, featuring his mass logical fallacies, outdated and untransferable ideas, and general inability to write succinctly at all, ever, not even once
and here is a list of why I hate Plato (logic may or may not apply):
if you want to be king just say it, fuck his ‘philosopher kings’ argument
like okay, Ship of State isn’t that bad overall but I had to memorise it for GCSE Latin and the middle part about the rigging was awful to translate so fuck Plato
(to clarify Ship of State is an interesting anti-democracy narrative but the philosopher king conclusion can suck my balls)
THE CAVE
like the article says, he’s so impossible to direct quote that you have to paraphrase which absolutely decimates the reliability of any criticisms
he got rekt by Diogenes, my favourite crazy-ass bastard gremlin philosopher, so he automatically sucks now
as in the above point, it’s literally the whole ‘behold a man’ issue, you’ve probs seen some memes relating to that floating around tumblr
he strawmans everyone who DARES disagree with Socrates’ to make them look like obvious idiots
personally I feel like by using Socrates as a mouthpiece he’s using an influential dead man as a shield and a promoter to both take the flak for any bad ideas and give weight to the better ones
literally everyone who’s ever taken a basic political theory or philosophy class probably had to read The Republic and omfg it’s so fucking boring 
white men love him and I’m petty lmao
everything he had to say about women and slaves sucked
‘all the great theorists respected him so you have to too’ no I don’t m8 lmao fuck off
where’s that quote that’s like ‘all of philosophy is just a footnote on Plato’ like, okay some pieces are based on Platonic rhetoric and ideas but are you really tryna tell me that no one since Fuck Off BC Greece has had any new philosophical ideas at all? fuck off
tl;dr he’s shown up repeatedly in my life both through Latin translations and political theory and he’s boring and stupid every time and I hate him (tbh I thought it was more petty than logical but I’m looking at this list and I actually have some Real Points here so I feel even more justified lmaoooooo)
❌ PLATO STANS DON’T INTERACT ❌
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hey! i know that there are thousands of langblr introductions just like this one (most of which are written by people who are much more interesting than me!), but i have to start somewhere, and this seemed like a decent starting point.
the basics:
my name’s eve 
i’m 15 years old; i’m in s4 (the fourth of six years of secondary school)
i’m scottish, and my native language is english
i’m a certified dumbass who’s had various studyblrs over the years, all of which i’ve deleted due to the Shame tm of never meeting any of my goals!
school and languages:
my current subjects at a national 5 level (a little bit below GCSE) are maths, english, french, latin, chemistry, physics, and modern studies, as well as GCSE classical greek
i’ve already sat my n5 exams, although i don’t have the results yet - i’ll be continuing all of my subjects apart from physics and greek to higher (kinda like A-level)
my french is somwhere between B1 and B2, and i’d like to make that into upper B2 by the end of my summer holidays
i’d also like to achieve A2 in german, russian, and italian by the end of the summer
i’ve dabbled in a lot of languages, including finnish, dutch, hungarian, danish, and slovenian - i’ve not been very good at any of them!
interests:
baking and making chocolates (i’m not great, but it’s fun!)
linguistics and conlanging
reading 
european musicals
watching sports; specifically motorsports, ski jumping, nordic combined, and volleyball (i wish i could play too, but i closed that door for myself when i was little)
history and arthurian legend
photoshop
tv shows/anime (i’ve been on a bit of a sports anime kick lately lmao)
why on earth have i decided this is a good idea?
because i really need to be held accountable! i pick up and drop languages before i have the chance to learn more than a phrase or two, and if i want to go on to study languages at uni i need to pull myself together and start working towards my goals.
what will i post?
good question. probably the same as everyone else - vocabulary, grammar, memes, cultural things, and all that jazz.
feel free to come say hi (and be amazed by my wonderful conversational skills) - i’d love to get to know some people in the langblr community, because my social circle on my other blog (@vierschanzentournee) is mostly sports fans! i’ll probably start posting in the next few days, after my classical greek literature exam is over and done with.
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excerebri · 5 years
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another shitty tag meme
cheers to @sxbob-omb (the best) and @custard-cream-constellations (the worst) for letting me waste my time
Name/Nickname: Nab, Nabbie if you’re feelin gay, I still refer to myself as Annabel which freaks people out. oh and ‘wench’ is probably most recent
Zodiac Sign: Pisces literally everything, saggy moon, cancer rising. yep.
Height: 5′8 bitches and NO I don't have small energy fuck off x
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff, nothing else (shame yellow doesn't suit me)
Last Thing I Googled: the goddam D.I.S.C.O song for a research project on the ivory coast, wouldn’t recommend
Favourite Musicians: muse!! what a fuckin band, biffy clyro, foo fighters, chapel, catfish and the bottlemen, I need to stop listing now
Last Song I Listened To: i’m having a lorde sesh while I work and it’s bravado at the moment and honestly?? a whole-ass bop
Song Stuck In My Head: this gay piece of shit has had sycamore tree by the hunna occupying my singular braincell since saturday
Followers: I've had a couple stalkers, yet to form my own nabbie organised religion though
Amount Of Sleep: fell asleep on my phone as per so i’d go for a solid 6 hours
Lucky Number: I don’t have numbers but my fav times are 7:42, 9:42 and 12:34
What I’m Wearing: the classic nab shirt and jeans, art hoe socks and my big stompy lesbian boots
Dream Job: currently I wanna fuck off somewhere quiet and have a lil bookshop, or maybe a librarian, or maybe not grow up
Dream Trip: lord take me back to queenstown, it’s all I ask
Favourite Food: my grandma makes a mean roast for my birthday and no-one can beat it, but anything i’m learnin to cook from her just sLAPS
Instruments: mainly piano, I can blunder through with a ukulele, drums, bass and one shit song on guitar. luckily I cant sing for shit
Languages: semi-coherent English if you’re lucky, I did the classic French gcse and like 2 words of german, also uselessly I can write latin
Favourite Songs: oh I just made my summer playlist so Home by Edward Sharpe etc.. road to nowhere by the talking heads and television by rex
Random Fact: uhhhh idk when I was like 6 I used to put my mums blue dress over a pillow fort and make lil aquariums with paper fish on string lmao
Aesthetic: clumsy gay who projects an aesthetic onto tumblr and pinterest but in reality has just worn bands shirts since 2012 and can’t do her hair
I’ll tag: @viilette purely to annoy her cos i’m lovely
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cafechenle · 6 years
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get to know me tag 🔮
oof i think i have been tagged in this by more than one person but im feelin’ lazy n i think i hv procrastinated on it too long! the most recent people to tag me is @taezhu n @cokehei !! thnk u sweethearts 💓
nickname: hanners, salt n uwu bitch oof zodiac: sagittarius  height: 163 cm age: 14 uwu time: 4:01 pm fav bands/artists: seventeen, nct, exo, vixx, panic! at the disco, sabrina claudio, marina and the diamonds, jeremy zucker. song stuck in my head: high hopes by p!atd ; it is so good !! i highly recommend listening to it 💓 last movie i saw: i rewatched spiderman: homecoming a few days ago :( i love tht film oof .. tom holland is my baby :( last thing i googled: aqa gcse economics syllabus; i have my econ mock tomorrow oof  other blogs: i used to be @bfwooz but rn i have no sideblogs on this acc do i get asks: yes !! but mostly for ask games 💓 why i chose my username: um ... cafes r cute n so is lele? also because i love the concept  average amount of sleep: 3-4 hours ; i don’t sleep much .. lucky number: 17, 04 what I’m wearing: this soft green tshirt w/ some black leggings bc im just at home, studying. dream job: author, but lawyer too. dream trip: a weekend with my friends in paris, i love that city. favorite food: there is this salad i make with rocca leaves n feta cheese n it is so good with hummus ugh !! but also pizza oops  play any instruments: i play two! the guitar, and the drums ! favorite song: i would say either pretty u by svt or victorious by p!atd, but according to itunes, it is melted by akmu which tbh sounds pretty right owo play(ed) any sports: i used to be on my school team for cricket! but i swim a lot these days oof. i want to get into something new during summer though. hair colour: black! eye color: black ... though my mom says its extremely dark brown oof most iconic song: sherlock by shinee is the most legendary song and that is it. languages you speak/learning: french, hindi, english, arabic, i learned latin for a while but i remember exactly none of it. random fact: i have a happy folder on my laptop, full of screenshots of nice things people have told me. it is for the bad days 💘 describe yourself as aesthetics: the sun coming through the window, sniggering in class at old memes, big smiles and dirty jokes.
i tag @jaeminftstars n @lovnct n @jindongdongie n @mnhynq n @cokehei n @jaemin-my-world n anybody else who wants to do it ! 
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phoenixflames12 · 3 years
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18 and 20 for the writing meme!
For this writers ask meme. Thank you, friend! 
18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.
I think that Faith was going to marry Johnny at one point during Vergangenheit?  I abandoned that one pretty quickly after realising what a slob he was (I created him as a character and characterised him that way and I couldn’t stand him!) so created the wonderful Albert instead, who still has a little piece of my heart locked away somewhere. 
During the writing of Finding Home Again, I think I toyed with the chance to kill Richard Sharpe off? That was very, very quickly abandoned, because I don't think I could have gone through the emotional agony of watching Teresa and Antonia deal with it.
Something else that I thought about last summer was an AU of the Finding Home Again ‘verse where Ben’s parents don’t die horribly and Ben doesn’t get adopted by the Moreno-Sharpe’s. He still gets to know Richard and the chosen men through his Dad’s connections with the army, just in a more roundabout way. i still may write something in that ‘verse, just give me until my sister’s wedding is over and I’ve finished my MSc dissertation!
20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
Classical references in The Terror, when I’m writing from John Bridgens’ POV. *Cracks knuckles- buckle up everyone *
Diving back into classical references have transported me back to studying Latin and Greek literature (both in the original (thanks Latin GCSE!) and in translation. There are so many classical references in the show anyway, but really drawing those out and making them work for John when Henry’s ill, or comparing the battlefield of France to the burning of Troy during the retreat from Arras in Soldier From The War, Returning  or John to Odysseus feeling lost when he returns to Ithaca was something that just felt appropriate. It heightens the sense of loss and pain and grief that all of my characters feel at some point during my writing and it also works really well for the time period. Xenaphon and Anabasis were core elements of every boy’s education at that point in time, so it would have been known to pretty much everyone (especially the officers, but that’s another rant.)
Just classical references in fanfiction generally. Letting a modern version of storytelling that’s told online call back tropes that were written over 2000 years ago and told and embellished in an oral culture before being written down is just something that makes me so happy. It makes me so happy to reference Homer or Virgil, because as a former Classicist, I know how important their storytelling has been to the development of fiction generally. So much of what we read nowadays is built upon the Classical Epic form, and the three major poems (The Aeneid, The Illiad and The Odyssey) have formed the backbone to so much of our present-day thinking about literature that we don’t even think about now. 
Thank you! 
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classics-cassandra · 2 years
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Feeling like shit just want him back (John Taylor’s Essential Latin)
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classics-cassandra · 3 years
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You’ve heard of De Romanis, now get ready for
Περι Έλληνες
The hot new Greek textbook coming to a bookshop near you
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classics-cassandra · 3 years
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classics-cassandra · 3 years
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Canius to Pythius after buying the gardens:
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