TheShallan she/her Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 Thanks everyone (for saying Happy Birthday)!! It has been an awesome day! 2
Elbereth she/her Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 Quid? Ego nescio quid sit accidens. Behold my likely mangled Latin and quiver. I can understand it. The endings aren't right, but it is totally understandable. 1
Mashadar Mistborn he/him Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 I can understand it. The endings aren't right, but it is totally understandable. Curse it. What ending did I mess up?
Elbereth she/her Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) It's the neck up verb thing, I'm pretty sure. I don't know what it's usually called, but it's when you have any verb having to do with the head, and you put an infinitive on the end. I'm not 100% sure it applies, though. I'm not very good at translating into latin. My school only does translating out of Latin, not into. EDIT: That is, you make the second verb an infinitive instead of the normal ending. EDIT 2: Also, accidens does mean happening, but only in the verb form (x was happening to y), not the adjective form. I think that would be a gerund? Props for using sit, though. I had to look it up to make sure you weren't using the wrong form of est. Edited November 5, 2015 by Elbereth (Limelleth) 1
Mashadar Mistborn he/him Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 [bad latin joke] "Does anyone have a quid?" Audience: "A what?"[/bad latin joke] It's the neck up verb thing, I'm pretty sure. I don't know what it's usually called, but it's when you have any verb having to do with the head, and you put an infinitive on the end. I'm not 100% sure it applies, though. I'm not very good at translating into latin. My school only does translating out of Latin, not into. EDIT: That is, you make the second verb an infinitive instead of the normal ending. EDIT 2: Also, accidens does mean happening, but only in the verb form (x was happening to y), not the adjective form. I think that would be a gerund? Props for using sit, though. I had to look it up to make sure you weren't using the wrong form of est. Probably. I'm just fiddling around with latin from English. Thanks for the feedback.
Elbereth she/her Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 [bad latin joke] "Does anyone have a quid?" Audience: "A what?"[/bad latin joke]That's actually kind of hilarious. Thanks for sharing!So it would just be "ego nescio quid accidere". Not all that far off, and as I said, you were understandable. 1
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