Looking for the perfect Christmas present? What about the gift of WISDOM??? I'm running an online Scholastic Latin class in spring 2026. The class will focus on acquiring fluency in reading through modern second language pedagogy. Comment or DM if interested!
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Dein cum Ranā mundum vernum vīsum excurrit.
Oh for ure I'm familiar with Marenbon's argument and I'm sympathetic! I see similar things, though not as extreme, from e.g. classicists ("Late Antiquity") and historians ("Long Middle Ages"). As a medievalist it's fun to watch.
Even Latin teachers pronounce these words wrong! youtube.com/shorts/9CFTu...
I love how the Middle Ages have been slowly devouring adjacent time periods over the past few decades
Playing around with training a chatbot to practice ancient greek with.
Within one minute it's making claims to godhood.
I should probably stick to books...
Annum novum faustum fēlīcem Christiānum!
Happy Christian New Year!
"Ecce, nova faciō omnia."
Me: God, why can't my special needs kids ever go to the hospital for normal kid reasons?
*one month and two broken legs later*
Me: Okay You know that is not what I meant
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Prāvē dēclīnāstī, Ō Edmunde Rex. Dixīsse dēbēs, "hic, haec, hoc."
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Pulchra hiems, lectus autem suavior.
It's an honor to teach with the Lyceum Institute, and it was a privilege to talk with Dr. Kemple about what it means to be a classical educator.
Quid est? What is it?
Quis est? Who is it?
homō "human"
habet "has"
habeō "I have"
#lingualatina #learnlatin #latinlanguage #comprehensibleinput #classicaleducation
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Me after my monday night class:
Wow cool, I have developed the ability to give a three hour lecture about philosophy with no notes!
.....hold on is that a good character trait
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"It would genuinely be more efficient to just teach more people Latin in order to read the vast literary corpus of Latin theology and culture rather than to painstakingly have to translate each and every work into various languages." -Daniel Tyler Chua
Did you know that standard Arabic is a “dead” language, like Latin? It has no native speakers, and hasn’t for centuries. But no one would deny that it is “alive” in every other sense: people converse in it, write in it, think in it, learn in it, make friends in it.
四海之內皆兄弟也
Quī quattuor maria intrā sunt, omnēs frātrēs.
All within the Four Seas are brothers.
-Confucius, Analects 12
Sine dubio!
De Arāneā Parvā Fistulam Ascendentī / The Itsy-Bitsy Spider
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Ecce Potato, the large-nosed potato dragon!
"The individual 'I', which served as the object of sophistic speculations, gave place to the universal 'I', to the 'I' of the human species, to the conscience of the human race."
"El yo individual que servía de objeto á las especulaciones de la sofística, cede el lugar al yo universal, al yo de la especie humana, á la conciencia del género humano." - Zeferino sobre Socrátes
Et nos icones fieri debemus!
Nil novi sub sole!