#Latin

I am going to try an explanatory linguistics thread in the spirit of the brilliant @DannyBate4. Why do we say “Julius Caesar” the way we do in English? The Romans
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Miami is already the Singapore of Latin America. And Latin Americans understand the need for sound money.So: Miami should hold a conference connecting all the Latin American financiers with all
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Ever wonder why my last name is so long? Why people from certain Latin American countries have such long names with multiple last names? What is the cultural background of
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There's something special about the Latin words alumnus 'nursling' and fēmina 'woman'.Though from different roots, the two words are in fact fossilised middle participles, formed through the affix *-mh₁no-. These
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#ClassicsTwitter, I feel like I (maybe we?) could use some pleasantness on the TL, so I'm writing a thread on my Latin Prose Comp class this semester. It was my
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Currently reading James Hankins’ brilliant Virtue Politics, and his rallying cry for the need to urgently address the vast neglect of scholarly attention of Neo-Latin texts by *specifically* Anglophone academics,
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A quote from Steven J. Reid in the new book "Corona Borealis""Early modern Scots understood Classical culture and history with a depth and completeness that modern scholars can admire but
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When the first colonial boats landed in the Americas, the captains sent the ship’s boys, aged about 9, to winter with the local people. This was so they’d come back
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Thread: Eastern Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox can survive mass emigration and displacement by seeing its mission and gifts as universal and not as particular and bound to an ethnicity as
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Your word of the day is:AMPERSANDn.An ampersand is the logogram '&' and represents the conjunction 'and'. It originated as a ligature (a character consisting of two or more joined letters)
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D'où vient le français? Non pas en droite ligne du latin classique, mais d'un mélange entre le latin populaire et d'autres langues. Pour citer Bernard Cerquiglini : "un créole de
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Once I was at a BBC party and I was talking to someone nice about their private school. Then they asked me what school I went to and I said
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.: * Things you shouldn't say or do when you meet latinxs °•; → a thread if you meet people who tell you they are from a Latin American country
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The conversation around the “Latino/a/e/x”/ “Hispanic” vote is exhausting because to start: Latinidad is not a race; an accent is not a race; nationalities & birthplaces are not indicative of
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Btw, it may be funny to think some rando writer didn't know Europe and Latin America had any trade or contact in the 19th century. But then think about all
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People saying only white Latinos voted for Trump also don’t know how far conspiracy theories have gone, Q and right-wing fake news are also abound in Latin America. In DR
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