That Sire, shall be my new username!! Many thanks!
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That Sire, shall be my new username!! Many thanks!
I'm mainly surprised there is over 26 years of combined latin studies on this forum. :chadliwtf:
Our motto (audere est facere) has always meant "to dare is to" for as long as I've been supporting Tottenham (30+ years) as far as my understanding is. Latin was compulsory for 3 years minimum at the school I attended :avbfacepalm:
In general, the Romans and mediaeval writers didn't use punctuation at all, or spaces between words, which makes reading many of the texts from the era an absolute pain, above and beyond it being in Latin already.@tmacspurs Completely out the blue & very old but quick question - despite how naive it may sound - in Latin, do they use full stops for sentence breaks, as we do with roman numerals? Thanks
I mean, look at this, it's ridiculous:
They did sometimes use an interpunct (·) to separate·words·like·this, but this pretty much died out by later periods.
In the modern era, you tend to write Latin using the punctuation system of your own language, all in lower case except for proper nouns, e.g. servus Bregans ab horto tractus est.
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Thats like old school DavSpurs level ranting.In general, the Romans and mediaeval writers didn't use punctuation at all, or spaces between words, which makes reading many of the texts from the era an absolute pain, above and beyond it being in Latin already.
I mean, look at this, it's ridiculous:
They did sometimes use an interpunct (·) to separate·words·like·this, but this pretty much died out by later periods.
In the modern era, you tend to write Latin using the punctuation system of your own language, all in lower case except for proper nouns, e.g. servus Bregans ab horto tractus est.
and out of my depth 
Did you know that's not a real latin passage? Some words are made up, so that it looks more like normal text.
Knowledge is power.
KnowledgeMoney is power.
He made a brief cameo here back in September!
http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/fo...finish-above-woolwich.7334/page-2#post-378350
That is the point. Learning Latin now is for reading Latin texts, not for conversation. That's why it doesn't matter how you pronounce it.
DID NOT READ, NOR UNDERSTAND. LOL!
To dare is to do in Afrikaans, the most stupid language in the world:
te waag is om te doen
I know nothing of latin
te waag is om te doen
I know nothing of latin
When I was about 12 (when Latin was commonly spoken*), I asked my teacher, who was a nun, what it meant, and she told me it literally meant 'to dare is to do', ie nothing ventured, nothing gained. So that's that - if Sister Mary Agnelus says that's what it means, that's what it means!
*thought I'd put that in to save you witty chaps the trouble
*thought I'd put that in to save you witty chaps the trouble
Did you know that's not a real latin passage? Some words are made up, so that it looks more like normal text.
Knowledge is power.
Haha yeah its just Lorem ipsum (I'm a web developer), none of it makes sense... thought it'd be funny :-(
Maybe instead of Yid Army we should start using Iudaeus Exercitus - see how the authorities deal with that?!
Ok, I've just tried shouting it out in a football terrace style... does sound a bit weird and you get funny looks.
Ok, I've just tried shouting it out in a football terrace style... does sound a bit weird and you get funny looks.