Writers Block Battering Ram discussion

Uh, I'm not sure where to post this...
Does anyone speak latin? I'm learning, but all I have is a dictonary, and I really need to know the sentence structure. In case you're wondering how this fits the group, I have this story, (or more like story plan) thats a lot latin. I mean even the title is in latin, and I'd really like to know how the sentences work so the characers could say some secret lines in latin.

Yes, I'm a second year in Latin. I might be able to help you with some of the stuff.

Cool. Then can you tell me how the sentences would be put togethor?
Like if I said "Hi, how are you?" would it be said in the same order?

you are so lucky, Sheva. I take... *sigh*... spanish. I want to learn greek or italian, but νο σκοολσ νεαρ μψ ηουσε οφφερ θεμ. I'm getting better at the greek alphabet itself, though. I know all the letters by heart now, just not their names.

cool

anyway. Back to Lye...

cool.

Kandy wrote: "i know a few things in latin... going to a catholic school and all... we usually sing a few songs in latin at school masses"

i had the same thing... and, um, most of first year latin, last year >.< ...um... lessee...the verb comes at the very end of the sentance, i think... or the very beginning. one or the other. on second thought, i'll leave this to sheva, i'm just confuzzing >.<

sheva does hebrew, doesn't she?

she said latin, at the top...

and Hebrew.

oh... cool... latin, hebrew, and greek, or just latin and hebrew? cuz all three would be.. alot. O.o

and don't forget english :)

haha, english isn't a language, it's soup. :P

ωε’ρε ταλκινγ σουπ?

... what?... and i mean, it's a jumbly mess of like a bajillion languages, mashed into one, and having had all the order removed.

ωε’ρε ταλκινγ σουπ.

I'm doing a report on the history of the alphabet... facinating stuff.

No, seriously. It's really interesting. Just more proof that ωε’ρε ταλκινγ σουπ.

thanks guys. By the way, I've done research on the alphebet, and it is interesting.

did you know it's named after alpha-beta?

yeah, isn't that cool?

I think it's cool.

I like logographies to.

what are those?

they're characters that represent a word, i'm pretty sure hierolglyphics are them

oh, those things.

Yes, I take Hebrew and Latin. And Yiddish, but I think that it's a waste of time....

I want to take Latin in high school.

Cool. :-)

Okay, you wanted to know about sentence structure?

Yeah. Like is it the same way written, in english as in Latin?

No, it's different. Excuse me, I have to go look at my notes....

Ok!

Okay, here you go:

-the verb usually comes at the end of the sentence
-there's no word for "the" or "a"
-subjects such as I, you, he/she, are generally not used except to put extra emphasis
Then there's the nominative and accusative, cases, genders, conjugations, and word endings....

Anyway, hope this helps.

O_o

You remind me of one of my friends, who finds time for 4H, swimming, tons of community service projects, memorizing a dozen different alphabets, and overachieving on EVERY ASSIGNMENT.

You guys are both heading for Harvard :-)

With the help of G-d. Full scholarship! :-) (I can always hope, right?)

yah.

Why do you always write G-d? No one cares.

and if you don't get a scholarship, you could accuse them of anti-Semitism ; )

I write G-d because...um...that's the way I've been told to write it, I guess.

Lol, that might work.

Huh. Why were you told to write it G-d? Well, whatever. (Of course, I 'take the lord's name in vain' about fifty times a day. I tried saying 'dog ym ho!' in 5th grade, but I couldn't keep it up. I am still working on this.)

completly off topic, but I had a friend in 6th grade, who was Jewish, but when ever she was mad would say 'Jesus Christ'. It was pretty funny.

Lol. I was told to write it G-d because of a rather long and boring answer involving something like destruction of the L-rd's name....I really can't remember.

and L-rd too? Do you hate 'o's? well, none of my buisness anyway. We all know what you mean...

...though if everyone knows what you mean, I don't get it. It's like writing f--k. Everyone knows it, so why not write it?

Marisol wrote: "and L-rd too? Do you hate 'o's?"

Haha, yes! I hold a great grudge against the letter. :-)

I think it's because G-d's name is holy and shouldn't be used improperly or destroyed....in fact, prayer books and Bibles have to be buried rather than thrown out. Like flags. But I just realized I don't really know. Must ask my father about that....

*cringes* *makes a mental note to work on language*

Sheva, that really helped.

I'm going to be at a private catholic school next year- I'm not even religious, but they are cutting $1billion from public schools cuz of the economy, and catholic schools are the cheapest private schools- so I'm really going to have to work on my language. I don't think they'd be too happy if I keep saying 'Jesus Christ' when I was mad, would they?

*cough cough* I would hope so!

Only the teachers. Students are like everyone at other schools.

yah, well. I should work on that anyway.

*nods in agreement with Marisol*