The 'look at what I did today' thread

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri May 09, 2014 7:50 pm

"teach yourself"

Have you lost your ladybird version?

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:21 pm

Exactly

there's only so much you can learn with a book like that. Still, teaching yourself from scratch you want to start simple

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri May 09, 2014 10:34 pm

we rise to conquer

good try though try more majorum

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:21 pm

I hope I'm misunderstanding and you're not trying to tell me that surgamus adminkendum means we rise to conquer

You would need to use surgemus (indicative) and the right word for conquer. Adminkendum isn't a word (at least not a real Latin one), you need to modify vinco/vincere (vincendus?).

Did you mean quendam?

Admittedly my translating of surgamus was a bit wishy washy, should be let us rise but I figured since you made the admin word up and the context of the conversation, you mean to "raise the admin", hence let us get admin

Massive edit:

I see the word you meant to put now

ad vincendum / adminkendum

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:33 pm

I admit it was a long time ago but I guess my latin teacher was lieing

so more majorum

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:36 pm

@mercutio your memory is getting frail or you made a terrible typo

ad vincendum, not adminkendum

surgemus ad vincendum

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:37 pm

knew we would get there in the end

not bad for 38 years ago

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:49 pm

I did think it was odd since k is quite unusual in Latin I think (and only used in Italian for foreign/loanwords).

Pretty sure vincendum has a ch sound as opposed to a k sound, but most of us English are heathens when it comes to languages.

Good mental exercise though. Took a long time before the mrs would stop huffing at me for confusing c, ch, cch, sch sounds in Italian.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:51 pm

Va bene...

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 09, 2014 11:57 pm

Magari...