Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

The Barbelith Elementary Latin Class

Page: 1(2)

Kit-Cat Club

11:46 / 15.07.02

Oh dear...

wembley can change in 28 days

10:06 / 29.07.02

I'd be totally in if it goes correspondence-stylee, having taken two years of latin in high school. The only phrase I can repeat at will, however, is multus sanguis fluit.

Cherry Bomb

08:47 / 02.08.02

I'm still in - what's up wit' dis?

I realize the above is quite far from latin, and possibly english as well...

HCE

17:40 / 05.10.02

Did this ever happen? I would like to learn.

bjacques

23:14 / 06.10.02

Here's some info about Radio Finland's Latin news bulletins:

http://www.publiscan.fi/cu24e-0.htm
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/summary.html

You're all playing with fire, you know. A bit of classical Latin or
Greek might come in handy for reading Poe's short stories (he liked
to throw bits of both in them), or following the spells in "Harry
Potter." But forget about using it to decipher that copy of Olaus
Wormius's forbidden Latin translation of the Necronomicon that you
got at the Spitalfields Market for 50 quid. Trust me on this.

"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni"
-- Situationist palindrome: we spin in the night and are consumed in fire"

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:29 / 06.10.02

So far this has been one of those things that attracted interest, but has failed to get organised. Basically, it would need a venue and a date.

I daresay we wouldn't get much further than the basics in a single session, bjaques. But if you'd like to lend a hand with the organising and/or teaching, I'm sure it would be much appreciated. Although I'm less than convinced that "girum" is kosher. Your situationist friends seem to be trying to say "we go into the circle and are consumed by fire", but "girus" would have to be a Latinisation of "guros", which would naturally come out as "gyros", and probably wouldn't come out at all, all the lat. carrry-over of the cognate adjective is "curvus"...

William Sack

11:01 / 07.10.02

"Girum" doesn't appear to be kosher; it's "gyrum" as you say. Though there is a rather nice Greek palindrome that was found carved into a fountain somewhere or other. Doesn't quite work out in Roman script, but: nipson anomemata me monan opsin. "Wash away my sins, not just my face."

William Sack

11:06 / 07.10.02

"in gyrum" looks as though it can mean "in circles" or "round and round" rather than "into the circle." It may therefore be that these situationist friends are just dyslexic moths.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:20 / 07.10.02

In *a* circle, possibly, and thus by extension in circles, but "in" with the accusative tends to describe motion into. Of course, one could say that by going in circles you are constantly moving into the path of its own curvature...would need a usage ref. And you're the one with the enormous Lewis and Stoned, Mr. H.I.R...

William Sack

13:14 / 07.10.02

Absolutely - in + accusative = into. Normally, but, according to Lewis and Blunt - Suet. Caes. 39 "in gyrum Euripo addito (in Circo)" which I can't make sense of out of context (and through rust), though our classical herbsmen follow this reference with "i.e. around, round about". Additionally, what I would take to be the more regular "in gyro" is also cited - Verg. A 7 379 "quem (turbinem) pueri magno in gyro...intenti ludo exercent." "gyrus", as an extension of circle, can also mean a race-track, but where that would get us with the palindrome is anybody's guess.

Old brown-eye is back

15:14 / 07.10.02

Hey, a Latin pissing contest. Cool.

William Sack

18:54 / 07.10.02

Hey, a Latin pissing contest. Cool.

Jesus. You're right.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:26 / 07.10.02

Actually, I rolled over and showed my belly the moment (some weeks ago) H.I.R revealed that he had a big Lewis and Blunt. After that the rest, I hope, is a genuine desire to work out what is right and true.

You know, like JuneJune might get into a "French pissing contest", o9r Pacha into a "Brazilian Portugese pissing contest".

Because God forbid they might have the right to talk about a language just because they happen to speak it.

Old brown-eye is back

10:00 / 08.10.02

Quite right. Lets hope no kind of English pissing contest ensues though, because that would be both redundant and almost unbearably pedantic.

Page: 1(2)

Add Your Reply