English first for a change! Lingua Anglica primo, varietatis causa!
Ok,
So I did promise I was going to start writing my blog entries in both Latin and English, but it is becoming so boring and tedious to translate every post word for word. Today for a change I thought I would begin by writing my blog in English, then translate into Latin.
It's always hard to capture the sense of another language, and this is even more difficult in a language which has not been spoken for more than 2000 years.I often have a great deal of difficulty expressing casual thoughts in Latin. Most of us learn the language reading dry theology or classical monologues, or flowery poetry. There is not much bar-talk written in Latin that has survived the centuries. :) (Great, now how I am going to translate the words "bar-talk"?!)
Anyway, today I'm at the public library at Yonge and Englinton. I should be at home doing work because I set myself the deadline of end of week to finish off all my webdesign work for my parent'c company so I can focus on the looming Latin exam coming at the beginning of September. However, I have a doctors appointment at 2:15, and I had to get some stupid blood tests done this morning, (routine stuff like getting cholesteral checked) that I promised Sarah I would do. Anyway, both things are up here so now I find myself killing time waiting for my appointment.
Oh well, tonight is our floor-hockey game! I'm looking forward to that.
Cheers,
Christian
Latin Translation
Sic, promisi me meos nuntios in Latine Anglicaque incipere scribere, set scribere omnia in uerbo pro verbo me fatigat. Hodie, pono primo in Anglica me scipturum haec nuntium, tunc in lingua Latina, uarietatis causa.
semper difficilis est capere sensus aliae linguae, et Latina difficilior quam alia quia lingua mortua quam abhinc annos duo millia nullus locuti sunt. Frequenter, michi difficilis est exprimere sentenias uulgares in lingua Latina. legendo seu versus poetarum seu theologiam maximus pars nostris hanc didicerunt. Parvum est in Latina scriptum quae "bar-talk" appellet. Pono ut "bar-talk" verbos vulgares appellam?
Quoquomodo, hodie in bibliotheca publica locata viis Yonge Eglintonque. Ego locandus domo laborans quia michi complere aliquas formas tellae neccesse est, quas societatibus parentum meorum construo, set Medica obviam eundus sum.
ehue, transferens unam linguam pro alia fatigo. Ne ego plus hodie facio.
Ualete,
Christianus
So I did promise I was going to start writing my blog entries in both Latin and English, but it is becoming so boring and tedious to translate every post word for word. Today for a change I thought I would begin by writing my blog in English, then translate into Latin.
It's always hard to capture the sense of another language, and this is even more difficult in a language which has not been spoken for more than 2000 years.I often have a great deal of difficulty expressing casual thoughts in Latin. Most of us learn the language reading dry theology or classical monologues, or flowery poetry. There is not much bar-talk written in Latin that has survived the centuries. :) (Great, now how I am going to translate the words "bar-talk"?!)
Anyway, today I'm at the public library at Yonge and Englinton. I should be at home doing work because I set myself the deadline of end of week to finish off all my webdesign work for my parent'c company so I can focus on the looming Latin exam coming at the beginning of September. However, I have a doctors appointment at 2:15, and I had to get some stupid blood tests done this morning, (routine stuff like getting cholesteral checked) that I promised Sarah I would do. Anyway, both things are up here so now I find myself killing time waiting for my appointment.
Oh well, tonight is our floor-hockey game! I'm looking forward to that.
Cheers,
Christian
Latin Translation
Sic, promisi me meos nuntios in Latine Anglicaque incipere scribere, set scribere omnia in uerbo pro verbo me fatigat. Hodie, pono primo in Anglica me scipturum haec nuntium, tunc in lingua Latina, uarietatis causa.
semper difficilis est capere sensus aliae linguae, et Latina difficilior quam alia quia lingua mortua quam abhinc annos duo millia nullus locuti sunt. Frequenter, michi difficilis est exprimere sentenias uulgares in lingua Latina. legendo seu versus poetarum seu theologiam maximus pars nostris hanc didicerunt. Parvum est in Latina scriptum quae "bar-talk" appellet. Pono ut "bar-talk" verbos vulgares appellam?
Quoquomodo, hodie in bibliotheca publica locata viis Yonge Eglintonque. Ego locandus domo laborans quia michi complere aliquas formas tellae neccesse est, quas societatibus parentum meorum construo, set Medica obviam eundus sum.
ehue, transferens unam linguam pro alia fatigo. Ne ego plus hodie facio.
Ualete,
Christianus
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