Of evil spirits

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    6 days ago

    I’m not going to say latin is boring, but most high school kids really don’t give a fuck about it. Sounds like this teacher is absolutely engaging the class and I appreciate the heck out of that.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      I had 3 different Latin teachers. Only one of them was even close to be interested in making his classes more engaging

      But the guy was also a massive nerd who apparently went to conventions/meetups where only Latin was allowed to be spoken. And I always suspected he was old enough to have been alive when it was the lingua franca

      Most teachers just went through the books, told us about some grammar rules and gave us a page of text to translate as homework

    • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      I had a fucking rad Latin teacher. Everything was engaging, stories about words and history and crazy facts. She showed Life of Brian solely for the Romanes eunt domus scene and stood in front of the TV for the full frontal nudity. It was the 90s man.

      We had a guy named Scott in our class when our textbook was focusing on the Romans in the British isles, so we called him Caldonii to tease her because she insisted that he was a singular Scott and not a plural.

      She took us to high school Latin competitions and we placed pretty well for the state.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Compared to a lot of other stuff that happened at school, learning Latin was fun. Especially because for a while we had the best teacher I ever had in that subject.

    • tpyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I took latin in high school and was devastated when my teacher retired and I didn’t get a second year

  • Pringles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    I can actually fully confirm the subjugation of esse is perfect for a chant, as my school mates and I used to chant exactly that and it’s the only reason why I still remember it: sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt!

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Nerd time, sorry.

      Does Latin have two different types of “to be” like Portuguese, Spanish (and maybe Italian?). French collapsed them into one, pretty similar to your Latin above.
      Suis, es, est, sommes, êtes, sont!
      But I’m wondering why the other Latin languages have different versions of be. When I started learning Portuguese, I realised why être had such a weird conjugation. It looked like a mashup of ser and estar. Anyway, I’m too lazy to look it up, so I will continue to wonder.

      Nerd moment out.

  • sober_monk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    I took Latin in high school. This was exactly the type of crowd it attracted back then as well.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Keep doing what you’re doing

    This is how we spawn toilet demons. They’re not just mean, they smell awful.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    There’s no way I’m taking on a toilet demon, no matter how many rolls of TP I’ve got.

        • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          There was a google toilet joke in Private Eye years ago. My nephew was around 5 and I read it to him and he thought it was real. I got a call from my sister asking why my nephew was terrified to use the toilet and kept saying the googles were going to come and look at him.

  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Latin class is always the best class.

    Other foreign languages: you learn boring stuff like “Hi, my name is mkwt. What is your name? How are you?”

    Latin: you learn the words for swords and various other weapons, and six different words for kill in the first two weeks.

    (They do this because they’re prepping students to read Julius fucking Caesar as their first exposure to “real classical Latin.”)

  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    This reminds me of “Sterculius, the Roman God of Feces” from Beavis and Butthead. Oh, the stupid shit that still resides in my brain…