I might need some over the weekend. Any volunteers? I realise it won't be until after tomorrows match.

LG is your best bet, but I'll give it a go (it's only been a few months, but I bet I've forgotten most of it...:lol:).

What is it? Unseen translation, prose composition, comprehension, etc.?

:D Thanks KK! Me too, just been a few more years.

It's genitive case. If you can work out the first one then I should be able to do the rest. There are eleven questions.

Underline the noun which is the genitive case and translate:

fur percuniam mercatoris abripuit.

The merchants had the money stolen by a thief.

The genitive?

Fuck prose comp. The bastard thing should die.

Aww, poor KK can't handle his sequence of tenses :hug:

Stop getting posh with me. It's 11 questions on genitive case. :D

The merchant is in the genitive. Because it is his money. whoever owns the accusative (pecuniam) goes into the genitive.

mercatoris is genitive.

"pecuniam mercatoris" means "money of the merchant", since mercator is third declension, ie. "mercator, mercatoris"

GTFO. I smashed that exam out of the park. It should die.

If you think Latin prose comp is bad, you should try Greek. It's... not pleasant.

:pal:

Have to do Medieval literature this year. The Gawain poet and Chaucer suck massive cock. But it's probably not as bad as prose composition into Greek.

I can still translate it and translate it well :coffee:

I expect nothing less tbh.

Thanks guys!

I'm trying the next one, I promise I won't post all the eleven questions:

Iuvenis librum poetae legit.

The young men were rightly in the the library with the poets.

The genitive would be the poets?

i think legit means read/choose.

(1st declension)

Singular:

poeta (N)
poetam (ACC)
poetae (GEN)
poetae (DAT)
poeta (ABL)

Plural:

poetae
poetas
poetarum
poetis
poetis

The young man read the book of the poet. (?)

Thanks KK that makes much more sense.

So the genitive would be the poet?

Sorry to turn your little grey cells on a Friday night but it is appreciated :hug:

can we talk about maths or physics please...

I hit a solid B for my latin certificate and I say: KK is right

Yep. Basically, if you have the Cambridge Latin Grammar book, it'll be easy. The declensions of the verbs are listed. It's a fantastic tool.

I'm studying for my diploma exam..so what do you wanna talk about? You can choose between atom physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and solid - state physics ?

Kennedy's Latin Primer is where it's at, tbh.

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~econrad/lang/ln.html

Or use that.

Or that. :lol:

High five to both of you and thanks :smooch: *in a non pervy kind of way*

let's talk about schrodinger's cat.

this is a question that made me :blink: when my teacher asked me.

do u think the ideas brought up about the thought experiment (schrodinger's cat) can be applied to the "if a tree falls in the middle of a forrest and nobody is around to here it, does it make a sound" puzzle?

Sounds like something that could be applied to Locke's theory of primary and secondary qualities or to Berkeley's theory of perception and existence :coffee:

no, but haven't thought about it

I thought the question concerning the tree in a forest with no-one around was 'did it make a sound?' instead of 'did it happen?'...:unsure:

:goodpost:

Physics FTW

:goodpost:

And yes it does

Locke might say that it makes no sound since "sound" is a secondary quality owing to its nature as vibrations in the air caused by something else. If there is nothing to perceive it, it makes no sound since it never is heard and thus remains as just vibrations in the air.

my bad, i mean did it make a sound.