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Anyone know Latin?

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[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

carpe diem

:D

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So if I were to email you with something really small to translate, would you be able to help out?

(Like really small, just the title for a fic but I don't want to make a stupid mistake with it.)

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. I'm just being an unhelpful dumbass. ;)

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*headdesks*

I knew that!

*shifty look*

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Both _bounce_ and aliciam are fairly proficient at it. Tell them I sent you and it should be okay.

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*fidgets* *is shy*

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Alicia is Canadian PhD student in medieval history. Bounce is a student in Melbourne. She took quite a few semesters of Latin out of sheer masochism. She has fibromyalgia and is bloody funny when pissed.

You'll like them.

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*flails*

[vicki595.livejournal.com]

I've got a couple of years of it, vague memories of grammar rules and an annotated dictionary?

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Hee! I think I just gave up on the concept of doing my title trick.

[callista1159.livejournal.com]

Yes. I studied it for seven years. But that was a few years ago. I can certainly have a pop at it myself and I have lots of friends who studied Classics who will be able to verify it!

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Well, I think it might simply not work. I wanted to do a wordplay with the title for my fic. Change 'memento mori' and replace the mori part with whatever means 'touch', but a discussion with a friend on IM led me to the conclusion that latin grammar is a bitch and it doesn't work that way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*smiles* Hi! Shai memtioned you needed the latin? I'm not sure how much help I can be, really, but I'll try.

Mori is from morior, mori, mortuus - 3/4 depontent infinitive. Which means that you can just go with tangere from tango, tangere - I touch, since it's also an infintive. If you're keeping the tenses and everything the same, you should be able to just stick that in instead of mori. I think.

I'm afraid I'm not a hundred percent sure on it, since for the life of me, I can't figure out where memento comes from. I just ...can't find it, I'm afraid. *is a doofus* and because we never actually did Latin composition in class. Just translation. But I think it would work.

I'm really sorry I can't be more help than that.

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Hee! Thanks anyway. I tend to get these crazy ideas and then I want to be nitpicky and make sure they work.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*nods* I know how it is with the ideas. :)