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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2009, 07:16:53 PM »
We're here for you.  And if you're ever in the Eastern part of NM, stop by and we can play SAGA or something. 

I warn you: I'm a Johnnie.

No, but seriously.  Who here's near Santa Fe?  I'm starting up a SAGA game in September, and am looking for reliable players.
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #41 on: April 16, 2009, 07:26:51 PM »
Hey, you set something up on the interwebs, let me know. I'm a sucker for Star Wars.  :P
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #42 on: April 16, 2009, 07:43:15 PM »
We're here for you.  And if you're ever in the Eastern part of NM, stop by and we can play SAGA or something. 

I warn you: I'm a Johnnie.

No, but seriously.  Who here's near Santa Fe?  I'm starting up a SAGA game in September, and am looking for reliable players.

....what?

And I think I'm the closest that you've got.  I'm in Portales, which is next to Clovis, and google maps can help you from there.   :p
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #43 on: April 16, 2009, 08:39:50 PM »
wtf is a johnnie?
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #44 on: April 16, 2009, 09:08:02 PM »
I go to St. John's College in Santa Fe.  If you know the school, it tells you a lot about me.
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #45 on: April 16, 2009, 09:19:26 PM »
I go to St. John's College in Santa Fe.  If you know the school, it tells you a lot about me.
Ancient Greek, or French?
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #46 on: April 17, 2009, 04:48:24 AM »
Greek.  I'm just a freshman.
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #47 on: April 17, 2009, 05:23:54 AM »
Greek.

Greek is for pussies. Latin is were it's at.

And I would claim protection in my drinking, but "a drunk man's actions are a sober man's thoughts."

Or some such. Fuck I;m drunk.

Fuck Latin too, the 'Church' mucks it all up, swhy I switched to Norwegian. Ha det bra, bitches. :D

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #48 on: April 17, 2009, 05:58:04 AM »
Use Swedish, the real Norwegian.

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #49 on: April 17, 2009, 06:02:12 AM »
If he's wasted he should just go with Finnish :P
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #50 on: April 17, 2009, 06:15:37 AM »
Everyone should, no matter what.

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #51 on: April 17, 2009, 06:57:44 AM »
Greek is for pussies. Latin is were it's at.

Latin has more cases (which actually makes things easier) and has the same character set as English.

And one we know how to pronounce.

Latin is for pussies.
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #52 on: April 17, 2009, 08:03:41 AM »
Use Swedish, the real Norwegian.

Pah... Sweden is nice, but it's liek Norway's younger step-brother.

Of course, I may be (read: am) biased between the two, having had close friends from Norway from before when I went to high school, while only knowing any true Swedes only recently. ;)

Latin has more cases (which actually makes things easier) and has the same character set as English.

And one we know how to pronounce.

Latin is for pussies.

Actually, the only carry over of Latin pronunciation that we have today (Church Latin) is often wrong grammatically, so there's no reason to assume it's correct vocally. All guesses as to proper pronunciation of formal Latin are nothing more than educated guesswork; the true form of the language is in fact dead, despite it's lasting impact on our world. This is what makes it so fucking hardcore compared to other living ancient languages (like Greek or Old Norse) and against other dead languages as well.

Besides, it's the vocabulary basis for over 60% of the English language, and far more than that for 5 other major languages in the world (most of which have their own derivatives), as well as having a wide reaching grammatical impact on English and being the grammatical basis for those same 5 major languages. It's literally the biggest cornerstone of all modern western languages.

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #53 on: April 17, 2009, 08:09:53 AM »
Greek. 
Ei iatros genesthai, ti an poioihs ?

It's been ages since I learned Ancient Greek, so there are probably 5 mistakes in the sentence above. But you won't be doing that already, I suspect: it's one of the constructions with the conditional mode ("if you became a doctor, what would you do ?" or something like that).

I also remember "esthios", which means stupid. I wish I knew better Ancient Greek insults.

Greek was kinda cool, if fairly useless to me.

@EjoThims: the pronunciation of Ancient Greek is lost too AFAIK. I know what we were taught is nothing like Modern Greek.
And Greek heavily influenced Latin... ;)
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #54 on: April 17, 2009, 08:21:18 AM »
And Greek heavily influenced Latin... ;)

Culturally, I am aware (especially in science and religion, after all, before they stole the Greek gods, the Latium tribes had crap gods, like Jeff, the God of Biscuits). But I was not aware as to an actual language influence between the two other than common word usage, similar to how modern French words are adopted into modern English and other languages adopt modern English words.

And while Ancient Greek is 'dead,' truly it has only evolved (again, at least to my knowledge), whereas Latin's only continuing usage, even through the Church, was a resurrection of past usage, not a change through continuation of usage over time.

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #55 on: April 17, 2009, 10:00:26 AM »
I thought Modern Greek was about as close to Ancient Greek as Italian to Latin, but I could be *very* wrong.

A quick search indicates that you're probably right, and that the heavy linguistic influence of Greek on Latin is a product of my fuzzy memory...  :embarrassed  :facepalm
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #56 on: April 17, 2009, 10:50:02 AM »
I could also be very wrong, as I am very drunk.  :flutter

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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #57 on: April 17, 2009, 11:36:27 AM »
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the only carry over of Latin pronunciation that we have today (Church Latin)<snip>
My first year Latin teacher swore that Latin was still spoken by a village or two in Switzerland.  Granted that was 25 years ago (gasp!) and it was her last year before retirement, so her reference point might have been the 1960s.

And Ejo, if you're drunk, where's the whooo?   :P
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #58 on: April 17, 2009, 11:37:33 AM »
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Re: tsuyoshikentsu - needs a hug
« Reply #59 on: April 17, 2009, 05:31:41 PM »
[tangent]

I took Greek for less than a semester, and the mix of Grads, upper classmen, Profs going Classics, and young-lings like myself
made for a weird mix. I had greek mythos on my mind, not Greek-greek mythos. Bacchae like behavior too (duh).

Anyway, I went to Greece, as bodyguard for my Dad. Obligatory I really do look like my avatar, it's spooky.
After about day 2, I could interpret the street signs, and figure out where we were going. A nifty use of an Incomplete grade, if I may say so.

Then, we went to Romania ... rough place ... tough business going on ... prostituteshit on my dad,
but not on me, which we both thought was hilarious.
After about day 3, I could Latinize the street signs, and figure out where we were going.

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