#Latin stuff

[igotsnothing]

Have you seen this short (like, just over 17-minutes) from the PBS Short Film Fest 2024? You should. It's lovely. And I love, love, that it turns the macho stereotype of the vaquero on its head. Fernando has my heart and I could watch a whole series about these characters.

[eternal-moss]

I’m like. *this close* to writing Genshin fan fiction in Latin, not even joking. I’d probably stick to Mondstadt characters bc Latin conjugation would not be very compatible with Liyue/Inazuma/Sumeru character names. Maybe some Fontaine characters as well, but I’m less interested in most of them.

Some Mondstadt characters are pretty compatible, examples like ‘albedo’ which already exists in the nominative singular (nice!) but grammatically female (I can just make him grammatically masculine. Or change it to neuter or leave it haha. So many options).

‘Kaeya’ is not derived from Romance languages, I can’t find concrete information but I think it’s from Sanskrit or one of the derived languages (let me know if that’s wrong!) either way, very much not derived from Latin, but I could probably make it decline like ‘nauta’ and keep it grammatically masculine.

Names like Lumine are funny because ‘lumine’ does exist in Latin, but isn’t in the nominative singular (which is lumen, and a neuter noun also). I could make it decline like ‘Penelope’ maybe, and keep it neuter to honour the non binary coding of the travellers.

Klee is a German word, and I don’t know much about German conjugation but I think it just goes klee, klee, klee, klees, klees, klees, klees, klee. So I would need to give it a Latin declension of some kind to make a sentence with her name make sense. I could make it so that it declines like Penelope too, but then I don’t know if I’d keep both ees. Maybe just keep it like Klee, Kleen, Klees, Kleae (???) either way it sounds really clunky lmao.

‘Aether’ thank god is nominative singular already. Hehe what if I make it grammatically neuter though…. >:]

Diona, Eula, Babara, Lisa, Mona, Rosaria should be easy, just keeping them as first declension feminine.

Noelle and Sucrose shouldn’t sound too clunky with the Penelope treatment.

Mika can get the Kaeya/nauta treatment.

Everyone else with a final consonant can be 3rd declension m/f (eg Razor, Razorem, Razoris, Razori, Razore).

AND THEN VENTI. I don’t know what to do with him?? Venti is the gen singular or nom/voc plural of ventus. And there is no nominative singular ending in all of Latin or Greek (my Greek knowledge is bad so tell me if I’m wrong lmao) that ends in ‘i’ so wtf do I do???

I’m debating just keeping him as Venti, and him being treated like a plural noun like idk ‘posteri’ or something. It would be semi lore accurate, if his name is based of the thousand winds (plural!) as a way of honouring them. I don’t know this is a massive stretch. Anyway that’s the best solution to the Venti Problem.

[12romy]

Translating latin texts is wild sometimes. Right now I feel like I'm reading a fanfic. And it's a smutty, gay one.

I can't help but think it would be a hit on AO3

[local-queer-classicist]

Two days until I have to face the consequences of not touching my Latin textbook for the past six weeks in favor of playing large amounts of modded Minecraft and Rimworld and watching hours of mindless YouTube videos every day.

[wisteria-lodge]

I legit like the postmates commercial where they’re all dressed as senators about to stab caesar

Like the one guy says  - “He asked me to conquer. On a weekend.” And the other one says “the gall of the man.” 

and like caesar conquered gaul. which is pronounced like gall. 

i don’t care i thought it was funny

[lannisterdaddyissues]

im in latin class rn and girl what the FUCK is the locative case you can’t just teach us that only six cases exist and then randomly bring out a seventh for just a few words 😭

[choccy-milky]

seb about to learn every language there is 📚📚

[sinhal]

You will never know true pain until you have to translate bible passages from latin literally

[thedevilsrepairkit]

Learning Latin so I that when I contact my ancestors with the Ouija board we can actually communicate 💪

[beedreamscape]

I know I've mentioned Bolo being cake in Portuguese (and the mispronounced Bola being Ball) but Idk if people know Porco, from Patia's surname, means Pig in Portuguese (and other romantic languages that use it as an alternative word for it) and I wish Marisha had talked more about it, if it was intentional or not.

[incognitopolls]

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[hedgehog-moss]

Hi! Can I ask you a question about France? How common or uncommon or weird is the use of coucou as a greeting? Especially between adults. Would it be super weird if I went to France and greeted someone like that?

I don't trust the click-baity articles that show up when I google this (I'm not even sure all of them were written by humans), so I'd rather ask someone that, you know, actually lives over there.

Thanks, have a nice day

Hi! Coucou is a pretty common greeting including between adults (though it's more often used by women as it does sound a bit cutesy), but I think it implies pre-established friendly relations, unlike the neutral Bonjour or Salut. I only use it with family and friends. Friendly acquaintances too—okay now that I think about it, it's hard to say where I draw the coucou line. I use it as a greeting when I enter the library if there's no one in there but the librarian because I know her well, but if there are other people in the room I say bonjour even if they're children. And of course if I knew the librarian very well but didn't like her she wouldn't get a coucou. You kind of have to follow your heart with this greeting.

But definitely don't use it to greet people in a shop or formal context or anyone you don't know well because that would be weird (in my view!) Coucou sounds affectionate, I often use it in writing to set the tone ("Hi I am an informal unthreatening email !") (also if a French person sends you a text that starts with Cc, that's textspeak for coucou)

To me "Salut !" is "Hi!" while "Coucou" is Hi :) <3

[eternal-moss]

oooo I’m a really big fan of the sound design for the Millenium Pearl Seahorse. It sounds like something out of Jurassic Park combined with horse whinnies and stuff that sounds almost ghostly. I like it a lot.

Also I got Neuvillette and he is probably unintentionally the funniest character to me, BRO CANNOT STOP TALKING ABOUT WATER. Like at all- and his silly little eloquent manner of speech is so endearing to me. Who on Earth says ‘rivers or somewhere similarly fluvial’. Bro fluvus literally just means river, like how Iudex literally means judge, like they’re literal cognates.

[justdavina]

Such a marvelous Latina transgender girl! She's just amazing! 🏳️‍🌈

[local-queer-classicist]

Why does Plautus taunt me with his casual vocabulary that wasn’t in my textbook and abnormal grammatical constructions that weren’t covered in my textbook and untranslatable jokes that I wasn’t prepared for by my textbook