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Cherin would be a more plausible name than Chirin, and 'traiteur' would be a (rather more implausible, depending on the context) profession... But I can't make it out.
Sure, in that example it is straightforwardly demonstrative, but often it functions differently when used in narrative/discursive texts.
Interesting. Not directly analogous, but 'ecce' in Latin still often gets translated incorrectly as 'lo' or 'behold' in contexts where it's clearly an intensifier of an adverb, or just filling out a conjunction. It's normally best translated adverbially rather than as a straight interjection.
So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:
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Misconduct is indeed a verb, but only a reflexive or transitive one. So there is no 'misconducting', only 'misconducting oneself' or something else.
(I do realize you are being jocular, but I was quite struck by the reflexive use in the statute)
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'Scarlet Street' and 'Woman in the Window' are both better - both starring Joan Bennett too, who is brilliant! (with bonus Edward G Robinson of course)
We have just published a newly discovered 1493 Arabic letter written by Boabdil, the last sultan of Granada, addressed to the Catholic Monarchs. It is the only known Arabic letter produced after the fall of Granada and documents his attempt to renegotiate the terms of his departure to North Africa.
'Symptoms' is itself a tendentious translation. Gramsci did not write 'sintomi' but 'fenomeni' -- events, characteristics, phenomena
We were deeply saddened to learn that our former colleague Robert Maltby died last week. Having taught at Leeds since 1989, Robert was Professor of Latin Philology by the time he took early retirement in 2013 and though he moved away from Leeds, he stayed in touch.
Even stranger - the "sintomi morbidi" wording which is frequently quoted in Italian texts also appears to be an erroneous back translation - this time from English (I assume). The original text in fact says "in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi più svariati".
Nope, "sintomi morbidi"
Ah, that explains it. Thanks!
Is Zizek really the originator of the 'monsters' version? You can find it *in Italian* attributed to Gramsci everywhere, online and in print. One Italian source I found says it's a back translation from a paraphrase of the original in French.
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".
We're delighted to announce that we're going to be joined for 2025-26 by Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts. She's an expert in Greek History, especially accessed via material and visual culture, with a particular interest in the rituals and beliefs of ancient religion!
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Out on 17th November , just in time for Christmas!
I think in the Pro Flacco citation under sense 6 in the OLD it does mean 'bias' (conscious rather than unconscious bias). Cicero is talking about how witnesses used to be impartial and not in the pay of prosecutors, so they used to speak 'sine ullo studio'.
It is indeed a 2 in this 1680 edn: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
Could it be a 2? 1=Initium, 2=Verbum, 3=Ignis.
'a h[e]art denied knowes no power nor can submit' would be my best guess!
Extend that end-point by 1500 years or so and we have a Latin corpus 10,000 times bigger than that (acc. to Leonhardt, though I'd guess it's at least an order of magnitude more). So plenty for Latinists to be getting on with!
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