Masthash

#Latin

Sean Murthy
8 hours ago

TIL The name "Double U" for the letter W comes from the sound two successive u's were to make in early Latin. E.g., "equus" pronounced ek-woos.

And in printing, it was common to use consecutive V's for W, which over time became a single W shape. 😲

The history of W: https://www.dictionary.com/e/w/

h/t @zippy1981

#english #latin #alphabet #language

billboard
10 hours ago

Daddy Yankee Embraces Faith & Religion in Final Concert: ‘A New Chapter Will Begin’

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/daddy-yankee-faith-religion-final-concert-puerto-rico-speech-1235531829/

#MusicNews #Concert #Music #Latin

avldigital.de
10 hours ago

#CfP for the #Congress "Epic in the #Latin West (4th-15th Centuries)", which will take place in Nuremberg on September 25-28, 2024.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2024

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/epic-in-the-latin-west-4th-15th-centuries/ #LiteratureMiddleAges #LiteratureMedieval #Classics #fidavlnews @italianstudies @germanistik @litstudies

billboard
11 hours ago

Eslabon Armado & Peso Pluma’s ‘Ella Baila Sola’ Reaches 1 Billion Streams on Spotify

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/eslabon-armado-peso-plumas-ella-baila-sola-1-one-billion-streams-spotify-1235531846/

#Spotify #MusicNews #Music #Latin

billboard
14 hours ago

The 50 Best Latin Pop Songs From 2000 to 2023, Ranked

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https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-latin-pop-songs-21st-century/

#Music #Latin

Michele Garbarino
15 hours ago

Now I Just Need to figure out why this morning my tablet was possessed and started speaking Latin to me #decanter #wine #latin #languages #lostintranslation #winelover #winetasting

2 days ago

I love how I explained to one of my friends how I disassociated completely one time and wrote a #Poem primarily in #Latin and his immediate response was

“You were speaking the language of the Gods.”

San Diego Music Events Bot
2 days ago
billboard
3 days ago

J Balvin Returns to Touring & More Uplifting Moments in Latin Music

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/j-balvin-new-tour-uplifting-moments-latin-music-1235521298/

#Music #Latin

Brian Gettler
3 days ago

Academic Job!

Assistant Professor, Classics (3-year term)

Come work with us in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga! We're a good bunch who generally don't bite.

Feel free to reach out for more information.

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Assistant-Professor-Contractually-Limited-Term-Appointment-Classics-ON/576290017/
@histodons

#AcademicJobs #AcademicChatter #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientGreek #Latin #RomanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistory #histodons

billboard
3 days ago

Everything You Need to Know About Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito Festival In Medellín

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https://www.billboard.com/lists/karol-g-manana-sera-bonito-festival-medellin-what-to-know/

#Bblatin #Music #Latin

billboard
3 days ago

Thalia, Milo J, Miguel Campello & More: Which Is Your Favorite New Latin Music Release? Vote!

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/thalia-milo-j-new-music-latin-poll-vote-1235524333/

#Poll #NewMusicPoll #Music #Latin

billboard
3 days ago

Wisin Talks La Base, Working With Young Miko and Don Omar and the Future of Wisin & Yandel

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/wisin-young-miko-don-omar-la-base-yandel-1235521628/

#UrbanMusic #BillboardLatinMusicWeek #Music #Latin

billboard
3 days ago

Todo lo que debes saber del Festival Mañana Será Bonito de Karol G en Medellín

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https://www.billboard.com/lists/karol-g-manana-sera-bonito-fest-todo-lo-que-debes-saber/

#BblatinEspanol #Bblatin #Music #Latin

Quinn Dombrowski
3 days ago

Manish Goregaokar & Ben Joeng are acting out a scenario of a #Unicode proposal user community interview for #English, were #Latin not the basis for #ASCII. Actually justifying C vs G, explaining capital letters, etc is a fun and funny thought experiment for an Anglophone audience. #MultilingualDH

billboard
3 days ago

New Music Latin: Listen to Releases From Edén Muñoz, Milo J, Thalia & More

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/best-new-latin-listen-eden-munoz-album-como-en-los-viejos-tiempos-1235521090/

#Bblatin #Music #Latin

billboard
3 days ago

JOP Reacts to Fuerza Regida Being No. 1 on 2023 Top Artists – Duo/Group Chart: ‘I’m Speechless’

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/jop-reacts-fuerza-regida-number-1-top-artists-duo-group-chart-2023-1235521089/

#MusicNews #Music #Latin

so apparently the #czech language never used the cyrillic alphabet. i thought for sure it did. it's a little disappointing because i love that alphabet more than the #latin one!
#linguistics

billboard
4 days ago

How 19-Year-Old Joaquina Went From Playing in Bands With School Friends to Winning the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/joaquina-latin-artist-on-the-rise-november-2023-1235518590/

#LatinGrammys #LatinArtistOnRise #Music #Latin

billboard
4 days ago

How 19-Year-Old Joaquina Went From Playing in Bands With School Friends to Winning the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/joaquina-latin-artist-on-the-rise-november-2023-1235518590/

#LatinGrammys #LatinArtistOnRise #Music #Latin

billboard
4 days ago

How 19-Year-Old Joaquina Went From Playing in Bands With School Friends to Winning the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/joaquina-latin-artist-on-the-rise-november-2023-1235518590/

#LatinGrammys #LatinArtistOnRise #Music #Latin

billboard
4 days ago

How 19-Year-Old Joaquina Went From Playing in Bands With School Friends to Winning the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/joaquina-latin-artist-on-the-rise-november-2023-1235518590/

#LatinGrammys #LatinArtistOnRise #Music #Latin

Mirijb
4 days ago

Latinists, please help: how would you translate the subjunctive “amem” in Thomas Bewick’s occasional phrase “flumina amem sylvasque inglorius” (on a woodcut tailpiece in History of British Birds (1797)? Does “may we love” seem right? Thanks! #latin #antiquity #romans

A Bewick woodcut, occasional tailpiece, showing a tree growing from a rock in a riverway and a Latin motto.
billboard
4 days ago

How Iñigo Quintero’s Debut Single ‘Si No Estas’ Went No. 1 Globally — And What’s Next

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https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/inigo-quintero-si-no-estas-global-success-1235516118/

#Music #Latin

billboard
5 days ago

BLACKPINK, Karol G & More Are Diversifying Stadium Stages — and Boxscore Charts

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https://www.billboard.com/pro/blackpink-karol-g-diversifying-stadium-stages-boxscore-charts/

#Touring #Latin #BillboardBoxscore #Music #ChartBeat

Latin Wordle 698 5/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Games #Wordle #Latin

billboard
5 days ago

Gerardo Coronel Tops Regional Mexican Airplay With ‘Se Buscan Borrachos’: ‘It Invites Us All to Get Drunk!’

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/gerardo-coronel-tops-regional-mexican-airplay-se-buscan-borrachos-1235517942/

#MusicNews #Latin #Music #ChartBeat

J. Martin
5 days ago
Album cover Cross Over by Fania All Stars
Scott Williams 🐧
1 week ago

Here's a screenshot of the 2-page pdf it produces, which appears to be in #Latin.

Primo die festali amator mi misit Perdricem in piro.

 Secundo die festo amator mi misit Duas columbas, Perdricem in piro. Tt die festali amator i misit Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbs, Perdricem in piro. Quart dic fostalf amator i misit Quattuor passerculas. “Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdiicem in pro. Quinto die fstal amator i misit Quingu anrannos, Quator passeecis, Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbs, Perdricem in piro. Sexto dic fstali amator mi misit Sex anseres parentes, Quin’ aneanlos Quattuor passerculas. “Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdiicem in pro. Septimo dic festo amator mi wisie Septem cyenos matantes. Sox ansres parentes Quina’ auramnos Quator passeecis, Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbs, Perdricen in piro. Octavo die fsto amator i misit Octo pucllas muentes Septem cyenos matantes, Sex anseres pasentes, Quingu anrannos, Quator passeecis, Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbs, Perdricem in piro.

1
Nono die festali amator mi misit. Novem dominas saltantes, Octo puellas mulgentes, Septem eyenos natantes, Sex anseres parentes, Quinqu’ auramilos, Quattiior passerculas Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdricem in piro. Decitno dic festo amator i misit Decem dominos exsultantes, Novem dominas saltantes, Octo prellas mulgentes, Septem eyenos natantes, Sex anseres parentes. Quinqu’ auramilos, Quattiior passerculas Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdricen in piro. Undecimo die festo amator mi misit Undecim tibicenes inflantes. Decemn dominos exsultantes, Novem dominas saltantes, Octo puellas mulgentes, Septem eyenos natantes, Sex anseres parentes, Quinqu’ auramilos, Quattiior passerculas Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdricem in piro. Duodecimo die festo amator mi wisit Duodecim fympanistas pulsantes, Undecimn tibicenes inflantes. Docem dominos exsultantes, Novem dominas saltauies, Octo prellas mulgentes. Septem eyenos natantes, Sex anseres parentes. Quinqu’ auramilos, Quattuior passerculas, Tres Francogallinas, Duas columbas, Perdricemn in piro! (Eunice Burr Couch, transl) 2

Why is the Latin for Hobbit given as Hobbitus? Why can’t it just be Hobbit?
#Latin #Hobbit #Tolkien

Freedom2B
2 weeks ago

Latin tendō (“stretch, extend”)

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Sihler traces the /d/ back to the ordinary present suffix -ye in position after *n (cf. offendō, dēfendō from *gʷʰen-ye-). Cognates include Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Sanskrit तनोति (tanóti) and Old English þennan.

#etymology
#Latin
#ProtoItalic
#ProtoIndoEuropean
#Greek
#Sanskrit
#OldEnglish
#tendeo
#stretch
#have
#hold

GW
2 weeks ago

Progressive Governments Across #Latin #America Are #Condemning #Israel

From Chile to Honduras, Latin American governments are recalling ambassadors, severing diplomatic relations, and openly condemning Israel — a country with a history of propping up #dictatorships across the region — for its crimes against humanity in #Gaza.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/latin-america-progressive-governments-condemn-israel-lula-boric-arce-petro

Latin American Protesters
Jeroen SZ 🦣
2 weeks ago

#Gaelic #Scrabble launched to help keep declining #language alive in #Scotland | Eve Livingstone in The Guardian

New edition of board game will be released in time for Christmas, following versions in #Welsh, #Irish, #Latin, #Icelandic and #Faroese

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/19/gaelic-scrabble-launched-to-help-keep-declining-language-alive-in-scotland

kechpaja
2 weeks ago

No, I _won't_ correct a random person's Latin in a post from three months ago. I have that much self control.

But still. _Aaargh_.

#Latin

Daniil Baturin
3 weeks ago

Lingua Latina mortua non est.
(The place is Brew132 in Cork — a #Catholic cafe)
#MastoDaoine #Latin

A post-it note that reads “spes nostra” — “our hope”

#Montana is not a particularly nerdy state and I don’t live in a particularly nerdy town, and I didn’t go to the nerdiest bar in town…so it was a bit of a surprise to run into the neediest bathroom graffiti I’ve ever seen last night. #Latin

Scrawled on a bathroom wall: “Hot Ass!” (just below) “abyssus abyssum invocat” (and around that, with arrows), “nominative singular, accusative singular” Unfortunately the verb remains unparsed.

Latin Wordle 681 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Games #Wordle #Latin

Son of Music Club
3 weeks ago

#Hipshaker #DJs Simon & Dave are back at #Portsmouth's Outside-In venue today for another all-day, all-vinyl, session on the decks.

Richard Searle, of #AcidJazz legends #Corduroy, and #TotallyWiredRadio's Dave Edwards will be joining them at the turntables, spinning classic tunes from 1200 through 2200

It's free entry and will be OB'd by #ExpressFM at https://www.expressfm.com

#Funk #Soul #Disco #HipHop #Latin & #Reggae

Flyer for DJ team Hipshaker's All-Dayer event at Portsmouth's Outside-In Food Court, featuring guests Richard Searle (Corduroy) and Dave Edwards (TWR's All Good Things). Classic Funk, Soul, Disco, Hip-Hop, Latin and Reggae from midday to ten PM.

Sabéis, ayer pensaba que #España es un poco como los platos duralex.

Que por mucho que intentes romperla, dura y resiste eh. Porque llevan vaticinando el fin de España ya años y nada oye 🤔

Por cierto, en el libro "Los secretos de las Marcas" se comenta que esta marca viene de un latinismo: "Dura lex, sed lex" (la ley es dura, pero es ley).

Quizá el problema es que la ley nunca es dura con quien debería...

#Latín

Mapologies
3 weeks ago

Day 11 "Retro" is the 11th Map 🗺️ of #30DayMapChallenge

We found an🏛️ancient parchment from #mapologies with old-fashioned names

http://mapologies.com

#30dayMapChallenge #30MapChallenge #MapChallenge #mapologies #geography #design #medieval #latin #greek #old

Ancient country names
LucifarGundam
1 month ago

I tried doing a daily latin thing a long time ago. That failed. So here' s a #latin bomb.

fero, ferre, tuil, latus => to bear, carry
sum, esse, fui, futurus => to be
volo, velle, volui => to want
nolo, nolle, nolui => not to want
malo, malle, malui => to prefer
eo, ire, ii, iturus => to go

unus=one
duo=two
tres=three
quattuor=four
quinque=five
sex=six
septum=seven
octo=eight
novem=nine
decem=ten
quinquaginta=fifty
centum=one hundred
quingenti=five hundred
mille=thousand

et, atque, ac, que => and
sed => but
autem => however
aut => or
sive => whether.....or
neque, nec => and not
ita, sec, tam => so
si => if
nisi => if ....not

cur? => why?
ubi? => where, when?
quis? => who?
quid? => what?
quantus? => how great?
quot? => how many?
qualis? => what kind of?

1 month ago

It may be November now but a lycanthropy hyperfixation is forever.

My current hyperfixations:
Lycanthropy and wolves - since 2012, including the mythological history of lycanthropy (specifically Greek with the myth of Lycaon.)
Lingustics - since 2019, a lot of languages explored (not to fluency, dear God) including Old English, "Ænglisċ" with its script, futhorc, English's sister language, Frisian, Arabic, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, various Romance languages including Latin itself, Greek, a few Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian and Polish specifically. I know how to read Russian-varient Cyrillic), Japanese, Korean, a few conlangs like toki pona and Esperanto. I got a 5 in both English and French language GCSE without studying. I also know how to read the IPA.
Poetry - since 2020, 120 poems have been written and counting, organised into ~45 subfolders.

My previous hyperfixations:
Biology - 2011-2015, especially
neuroscience.
Astronomy - 2012-2016
Vexillology - 2019-2021, I can recognise most national flags.

#Lycanthropy #Wolves #GreekMythology #Linguistics #Languages #OldEnglish #Futhorc #Frisian #Arabic #Welsh #ScottishGaelic #RomanceLanguages #Latin #GreekLanguage #SlavicLanguages #RussianLanguage #UkrainianLanguage #PolishLanguage #CyrillicScript #JapaneseLanguage #KoreanLanguage #ConstructedLanguages #TokiPona #Esperanto #IPA #Poetry #Neuroscience #Astronomy #Vexillology #NationalFlags

David Megginson
1 month ago

@JeremyMallin wrote

But the plural, "CVs" might seem like you're talking about a pharmacy. 😵‍💫

🙂 The confusion between "CVs" and "CVS" could happen only in the U.S. But if you want to get really pedantic, the plural should be on the "C", not the "V", so "CsV" or (going full Latin) "CaV" (curricula vitae or curricula vitarum, depending on how many lives are involved).

#language #Latin

Anja June
1 month ago

The singular form of "homo sapiens" is "homo sapiens". "Sapiens" is a Latin adjective meaning "wise" (singular). Treating it as the plural of """"homo sapien"""" is calling our species "wises human". The Latin plural would be "homines sapientes" but we don’t use plurals with species names so the singular and the plural are both "homo sapiens". (Non-English Indo-European grammars tend to be more visible and require a lot more textbook grinding.)

#latin #language #pleaseunderstandthis

billboard
1 month ago

Bad Bunny, ‘SNL’ and the Normalization of Spanish in American Pop Culture

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/bad-bunny-snl-spanish-language-1235454916/

#Spanish #Snl #Latin #TVFilm #Culture

Todd Battistelli
1 month ago
0xD34DF15h
1 month ago

I was wondering, how many of you speak (or "know") any #deadlanguages such as #Latin or #AncientGreek or even #ConLanguages such as #Esperanto, #Klingon or #Quenya. And if so, is there some actual purpose or is it just some kind of nerdy/niche hobby?

Mel Campbell
2 months ago

What kills me about learning #Latin is you’re effectively learning two languages at once. You’re learning the actual vocab, conjugations, declensions etc – and you’re also learning the language of #grammar itself: what the grammatical rules and parts *are called* and how they map to particular functions of language

Latin is the kind of language that, in the past, used to be drilled by asking discipuli things like “what is the passive second person plural subjunctive” or whatever the fuck

This means that a lot of the language learning tools I’ve encountered are based on the assumption that you already know this ‘second language’ of grammar, so eg the vocab flashcard lists I have found have got verbs in four different forms, and I’m like “what the fuck do those mean? Which is which and how do I know which one is called for in which situation?”

Like, I can tell that one of them is the infinitive and one of them looks like the first person present indicative – and by the way, these are terms that I only know because I’ve had to teach myself grammar in order to edit other people‘s work – what the fuck are the other two??? I’m just looking at them going, “well, you know, it’d be nice to know that”

If you are a native English speaker aged under 50, you probably didn’t learn grammar at school in your first language, and you probably don’t even know how to apply these words to your native language!

As a copyeditor in my own first language, English, I have had to teach myself the language of grammar in order to explain *why* certain choices I intuitively know are right or wrong. I am an EXCELLENT editor and yet I still have to look up English.stackexchange to find out what the word is for the function of language I am trying to explain

I’m honestly not sure if the traditional rote learning method or the intuitive ‘immersion’ method of language learning Duolingo uses is better for Latin

because Duolingo’s weakness is that it is based on guessing: you never learn the rules and so you don’t know *why* something is correct or not correct, which can help you analyse what a certain sentence demands

Basically Duolingo wants to make everyone into the same kind of speaker that I am in English

Surely there’s a happy medium

(Unfortunately I suspect it is ‘formal language classes such as one takes in school’)

Mel Campbell
2 months ago

I think what will really help my #Latin is not so much knowing *how* to decline nouns and more knowing what kind of *usage* each case represents

Like, actually knowing what “genitive” (just for example) actually means will help me decide which case to use

I have them all written down somewhere but as soon as I have actually memorised what each case means and don’t need to consult my cheat sheet, I will have much more of a handle on the vocab

In #Duolingo I never understood which case was needed and would just guess and wouldn’t know why something was right or wrong. The Duolingo Latin course is so shit that it doesn’t allow you to acquire the intuitive understanding that the whole Duolingo method is built upon

Mel Campbell
2 months ago

Spending my Friday night making myself some #Latin flashcards, hbu

Semper studeo, numquam prospere

surya
2 months ago

Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo

The author's note was point and accurate. There is a similar traidtion celebrating womanhood in Indian communities as well. I also went through very similar emotions and that age and such a book would probably have eased the experience. Glad that this book is out in the world. Power to the author.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5904112437

#bookreview #books #latin #indian @bookstodon

Shout out to Scott Hawkins for throwing a "mirabile visu" in The Library at Mount Char. Was not expecting a contextually appropriate Latin supine in my casual reading.

#NowReading #Bookstodon #Latin

Mel Campbell
2 months ago

I’ve decided to get back into learning #Latin

My friend Felicity who was a Latin teacher (Felicitas qui magistram linguam latinam erat?) said that simply memorising vocab lists would probably help a lot

so having already run through the pitifully short #duolingo Latin course (which didn’t even teach any tenses apart from present) I am experimenting with other apps and online flashcards

Screenshot of an online flash card at LatinVocabularyTester.com – it says “eheu” which I happen to know is Latin for “oh dear” or “alas”
billboard
2 months ago
mythologyandhistory
2 months ago

Did you know that reading #Latin was once your get-out-of-jail-free card?

During the reign of Henry II., #clergy became exempt from secular #punishment.

To prove clergyhood, one had to read from the #bible.

The #psalm required was 51:3 = "Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam".

An illiterate person could simply memorise the psalm & avoid hanging, as ecclesiastical #law was far more lenient than secular law.

This led to 51:3 becoming known as the "neck verse".

#history #literacy

Ricardo Harvin
3 months ago

#80ForBrady is another example of peak #whiteFeminism.

Three long-time so-called #liberals working for #TomBrady (a #producer of the #movie), the #Trump supporter and #PPPLoan thief.

#LilyTomlin and #JaneFonda being in this doesn't surprise me at all, but this is the first I'm aware of #SallyField's hypocrisy. #RitaMoreno is just another light-skinned #Latin person who mistakenly thinks they're going to let her be #white.

Disgusting 🤮

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_for_Brady

James Enge
3 months ago

Whenever I see a news item about Romney, I think it's about the English artist who did such great drawings of Orpheus and Eurydice. I am always disappointed.

This is made even worse by the fact that the artist's first name is George (the same as Mitt Romney's father--the guy who incautiously said he had been brainwashed about Vietnam).

Political Romneys come and go. But Eurydice will be vanishing forever.

#Latin

Orpheus attempts to embrace Eurydice as she vanishes in a puff of logic; weird deathy figures in the upper right corner.
Orpheus reaches out as Eurydice falls back into eternal shadow crying out "Vale!" (Farewell!)
Andre Polykanine
4 months ago

It seems, I've already asked it on Mastodon, but now I really need the answer, if it exists. Does anybody know if there is some kind of a #Braille standard for #Latin vowels with macrons? For more context: In some texts, especially for learners, long vowels in Latin are marked with a macron, i.e., a horizontal line above the vowel. Is there any convention about how to show them in Braille? Thanks! #Blind #Help

billboard
4 months ago

How Messi’s Miami Arrival Gave La Mosca’s ‘Muchachos’ New Life

Check it out! 👇
https://www.billboard.com/pro/lionel-messi-miami-la-mosca-muchachos-new-life/

#Soccer #Mls #LionelMessi #LaMosca #Music #Latin

Chris Kendall
4 months ago

I just came up with the best thing and nobody is going to get it. So my 4yo (who is called George, which is crucial here) is sitting there living his best life and I said

O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint, agricolas

I’ll never top that. #classics #Latin

s1m0n4
5 months ago

@openculture Whoever responded 'yes' has never translated a #Latin text to #Italian . What a high school nightmare that was!

Yahia Lababidi
6 months ago

The term #Algorithm is Al-Khwarizmi translated into #Latin

The #scientist & #mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi lived from 780 to 850 AD in Persia & #Iraq.

Also known as the father of #algebra,
Al-Khwarizmi's #book, "Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” introduced systematic methods for solving linear & quadratic equations.

Using letters as symbols to represent unknown quantities, lay the foundation for symbolic algebra.

#Islam #Muslim #science #math

James Bartlett :terminal:
7 months ago

@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!

I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).

On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.

Yachtbar
7 months ago

@icastico @vinylrecords
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And one for the road 😉#CubanMusic #Latin #LatinRock #vinyl
Recorded at Havanna, Cuba 1974
Released by Love Records, Helsinki, Finland

https://www.discogs.com/release/762516-Grupo-Irakere-Grupo-Irakere

https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_Love_Recordsin_albumeista
Search "Grupo Irakere"