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  3. Another Ethnic Thread

    in Arena

    Posted

    one might consider that the modern state Italy is a relatively young one...

     

    In the years after the roman empire fell, there were the Lombards, which made the Popes call the Franks (more germans) for help and basically created the Papal state, but later the city states like Genua or Venice, did they care about something called Italy? I doubt it. It would be interesting to know if a Michelangelo call himself Italian? I dont know, did Marco Polo call himself italian? I dont know...

     

    I do know however that anyone in Europe that claims to be pure descendant of state that existed 2000 years ago is simply wrong. In Europe with mass imigration for thousands of years, there aint not such thing as pure...

    I totally agree. I can't understand how people can base their theories on ethnicity/race in 2006.

  4. How Did Italian Arise?

    in Postilla Historia Romanorum

    Posted

    However, I venture to say that Spanish will beat Italian when we look at which modern

    Romance language is closest to Latin in syntax and grammar.

     

    Comparing Syntax:

     

    Latin: Maria videt canem. Videt canem Maria. Canem Maria videt. Maria canem videt. These all mean the same and are all

    possible ways to say in Latin, "Maria sees the dog."

     

    Spanish: Maria ve al perro. Al perro ve Maria. Ve Maria al perro. Al perro ve Maria. Maria al perro ve.

    All possible ways of saying "Maria sees the dog."

     

    Italian: Maria vide il cane.

    I believe that this is the only possible way to say "Maria sees the dog" in Italian.

     

    Not really. That

  5. Danes

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    The Congo is last.

    Just a few hours until their first democratic elections in 45 years,although I'm not sure that will be sufficient to make them happy...

     

    Democratic election?! :ph34r:

    Yes, democratic elections. I forgot the Italic..

  7. Danes

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    ...on this list, Austria is third, which is ok, because i am happy! :)

    Understandable really :D breathtaking landscapes, practically no pollution and people actually know road signals are there for a reason, not just to decorate..lol

     

    The Congo is last.

    Just a few hours until their first democratic elections in 45 years,although I'm not sure that will be sufficient to make them happy...

  9. The EU Embraces The Language Of The Empire

    in Lingua Latina

    Posted

    HELSINKI: Sniffy classicists, who have always looked down at the European Union as a pale imitation of their beloved Roman Empire, will be delighted. Having pinched the Roman idea of a single currency, the EU has now decided to embrace Latin.

     

    Finland, which is running the EU for the next six months, is to publish weekly news bulletins in Latin on an EU website. Leaders of the Unio Europaea, who have had a wretched year grappling with the Constitutio Europaea, will be reaching for their dictionaries at their next shindig in Bruxellae.

     

     

     

    Sydney Morning Herald

    Interesting =)

  11. Translation

    in Lingua Latina

    Posted

    What "In metio stat virtus" means?

    Thank you!

     

    You probably mean "In medio stat virtus" :lol:

     

    It means that "virtue is in the middle", in a few words that it is better to use moderation. Horace said something similar, "est modus in rebus". This expression became "popular" in medieval times though, with the scolastic philosophy, perhaps it originated in the Middle Ages since "virtus" here has a different meaning from the "classic" one.

  12. A Favor To Ask

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    Silentium, you rock
    YOU REALLY ROCK!!!

    Grazie, grazie =)

     

    thanks thanks thanks!!! I was looking forward to show it to Johanna and now i can wink.gif

    Grazie!!!

     

    Grazie ancora... guarda va benissimo... io non mi sarei potuta lontanamente avvicinare al tuo risultato ^^

    E' il mio tema preferito fra quelli che ho scritto quest'anno e in effetti

  14. A Favor To Ask

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    Dear Ginevra, first of all congratulations on your work, the text is very well written and put together :P however I found a few verbal incongruencies in the original version and I had to adjust that in the translation. As I said before I can't guarantee total accuracy and I'm not sure all the passages actually make sense, it was a very difficult translation, as you probably know :) anyway here's the text:

     

    Patroclus

    Nothing of Menaetius

  18. Pronunciation - Words & Names

    in Lingua Latina

    Posted

    Troops from Lancashire (UK) stationed in Norway during the Second WW found that they could make themselves understood when speaking Lancashire dialect-and vice versa-they could tune into a lot of ,apparent, donated words.

    The dialects of northern England seem to have retained the highest number of norse words (and pronunciation traits).

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    Sono Porci Questi Romani

     

    SPQR

     

    So apparently that tremendous film is known abroad too :D

     

    sono castana con riflessi ramati quando i capelli prendono il sole smile.gif. quella nella foto

  21. Disappearance Of The Tria Nomina

    in Nomina et Gentes

    Posted

    For what i remeber the German Frankish Aristocracy enter in Church Bisiness only at the time of >First carolingian before the Churc was Roman people only.

    S martin of Tours for Example.

    If you are able to know if they have three name this should be interesting

    Uros did you read "Cavalieri e cittadini" by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur? As far as I know he's professor of "antichit

  25. Pronunciation - Words & Names

    in Lingua Latina

    Posted

    Aren't you a native speaker of Italian?

    yes i am. I dont like finnish, but i'm looking forward to learn norwegian. It isnt such a difficult language. After, i'd like to learn swedish...

    Someone I know(German) had a hard time learning Norwegian, despite being a native speaker of a Germanic language. I'd say it's a fairly difficult language ;) anyway, the fact of speaking a romance language won't be too much of a problem if you're really interested and motivated.

     

    I think that those of you who are out to learn Swedish are going to have to deal with 'Tones'. Good luck.

    The so-called dialects are really languages in their own right. My grand aunt, who was Neapolitan, always spoke of people from other provinces as if they were foriegners. God had a bad day when and IF He created 'those' beings. I think that Neapolitan is more euphonius than Italian. "V", for example, can be (phonectically): Ven acca (come here); nu bene per terra (don't come from underground or Hell); dam oh ween (give me the wine).

    Swedish is not a tonal language, there are only a few words characterised by tonal peculiarities but they're easily recognisable from the context, unlike Chinese.

    As to Neapolitan dialect, I admit I have serious difficulty understanding it, if I heard two people from Naples speak in strict "dialetto" I'd lose track of the conversation. Same happens with all the other dialects except for the ones of Toscana, Umbria, Marche and Abruzzo. Younger generations in Italy tend to speak more or less the same language anyway, with slight accent variations.

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