In Lab today, a student asked our teacher if she knew a certain word in Spanish. Our teacher said that she only knew the word in Italian. I remembered that both of those languages came from Latin, and looked up the term in Latin. It was surprisingly close to the Spanish word, which I thought was pretty cool. I am also able to understand a few words of my sister's Spanish homework because of Latin.

Latin Everyday

Over the past few weeks I have seen many instances of latin but since here at school in English, we have been reading the Odyssey, that has been the most well-known one. Although it's not actually Latin and the language, it still reminds me of latin and the different parts of the language. I have seen different instances ti latin like how the battle of Troy is told, it reminds me of latin. It all takes place in the same time period and the same area of the world so it all connects in different ways.

Latin everyday

So today on my commute to school my mother and I were talking and she said something that reminded me of my Latin III class. She told me she had to drive into downtown for something and it reminded me of the Roman columns that are on courthouses in downtown. It was cool to see that Latin is in everyday life.

Army Navy Game Jackson

On Saturday I and my Dad were watching the Army-Navy Game. Army ended up winning the game, but another highlight of the game was when they did the History of the two historic Military Institutions. Like other schools, The Naval Academy has a Latin motto. Navy's motto is Ex Scientia Tridens, that means: From Knowledge, Sea Power. This is very cool and interesting, even though I was watching a football game, I picked up on some Latin. Also even though just like most schools and a Latin motto, 
Navy is not like most schools. 

Latin evridey

It is december, which made me think about Roman Holidays. I learned in class that the Roman equivalent of Christmas is Saturnalia. Saturnalia is the feast of Saturn and the Pope moved Jesus's birthday to around that time to try to cover up the pagans. There were many equivalents to Christmas, as they had big dinners with family and wore green and gold. This probably influenced the normal Christmas green and red. We sure do experience Latin everyday.

Latin Everyday

Today in English, we were discussing the parts of speech and then we started talking about infinitives.  Since they started talking about, I remembered that in Latin a infinitive is a verbal noun. This is one of the many times I used Latin to help me with parts of speech. Latin roots and Latin grammar connects to all languages and is the original meaning behind almost every word.

How the White Leg tribe relates to Roman life

In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, there is a country known as Arizona under Caesar. This nation is ruled by its emperor, Caesar, and it functions and behaves much like the Roman Empire did. To there north, in Utah, there is a savage tribe known as the White Legs. Caesar uses his Legion to conquer the White Legs' land, and he forces them to fight for him against the New California Republic. This is like when the Ancient Romans conquered land in Europe, and the inhabitants of that land assimilated into Roman society.

Latin Everyday

This is less about latin, but more about the roots of word in general. No language came out of nowhere is what we usually think. This is wrong, latin came from another language, and that from another language, and so on and so forth, until we have the first language. My question is, do we still have any words that have roots from that language. We most likely do not. It would be amazing if we do. Imagine, we have this root that is from a word that is as old as written language as itself, maybe older than the oldest written thing we know of. This would be amazing. There is one thing that interest me more than that is this. Have we gone back in linguistics, as in is there a language in the world that is more like it than any other language. Obviously there is, but what language is almost exactly like it. That's all I have to say.

Miles Blog Post

One time I was taking the ERB in 8th grade and I came to the vocabulary section. I figured I wouldn't know much but I ended up knowing a lot cause of the roots they had in Latin that I knew. On in particular I remember was I saw a word with the root Bellum which I remembered had to do with war. I think I got that one right. Super cool story I know.

Amantes sunt amentes

Over the weekend, I was face-timing my friend. She was talking about her lame crush because she's weird. Her brother walked into the kitchen where she was and mumbled something under his breath. Then he laughed, and we were both really confused. Later she texted me what he said, as she didn't know what language it was in. I realized that it was latin and it translates to lovers are demented, which I'm assuming meant he thought it was stupid that she was obsessing over a guy. To be honest, I totally agree because she needs to chill. Anyway, that's the story of how my friend's brother roasted my friend in latin.

Biology

In biology, we are talking about cells. One of the things we were talking about were pinocytosis and phagocytosis. Mr. Day told us that Pino might be latin or greek. But it is actually greek meaning food.
Same with Phago. Phago is greek and it means to drink. I thought it was Latin because pino and phago sound like latin.

Blog post

I remember while in chapel they talked about Harvard university. I remember seeing their logo, ve ri tas. If you put all the different syllables together you get veritas which translates to "truth". I don't know I just found this very interesting so I wrote about it. There you go. Latin in a university logo. Boom!

Semper Fidelis

While I was in the car on the way back from church I saw on the back of someone's license plate the latin phrase Semper Fidelis. It was obvious this person was either in the Marine Corps or knew someone who was apart of it. The phrase Semper Fidelis or Semper Fi means always faithful. It was cool to see a tie to latin in my everyday life that I could relate back to my latin class. 

Latin Everyday

Today while I was looking through a drawer I found a watch. On this watch in the middle it said "Regina". This reminded me of the latin word "reginae" which translates as queen. Also on the watch the numbers were all roman numerals which is pretty common.

Pete's Christmas

This weekend I was watching Christmas movies on the Hallmark channel with my grandma and this movie called Pete's Christmas played. The plot of the story is that Pete wakes up Christmas morning with a promise of a better day, but he immediately finds that his parents forgot to get him a Christmas present (weren't you getting it? I thought you were). To make matters worse, Kenny has received a brand new telescope. Pete's parents attempt to apologize, but are immediately distracted. Pete goes to get some air and is immediately pummeled by snowballs by two local kids. The day ends with the family having to eat dinner at a depressing local diner where Grandpa and dad fight. A dinner that is later crowned by food poisoning. Pete ends his day saying goodbye to his grandpa, who leaves later that night, giving him an empty box that was given to him long ago. The worst Christmas day is over for Pete, but he wakes the next day and finds that everything seems to be happening the same as the previous day. At first, he thinks it must be some weird joke his parents are playing on him to punish him for ruining the previous day, but when he wakes up the third day he realizes that he is repeating Christmas. Pete is depressed, but after a few repeats, he realizes he should take advantage of his "gift". In the end, Pete realizes the real reason why his dad and grandfather are fighting, because they both miss Grandma. He creates a star ornament, like the one his father had as a child, full of the pictures of his dad and his grandpa over the years. The star breaks the spell, reminding them that Christmas is all about family. Then for the first time, in all the Christmas days Pete has been through, Grandpa doesnÍt leave. Pete wakes up the next morning and it's finally Dec 26th. Pete finds his grandfather and tells him, and he finally realized what his gift of the empty box meant. Life is like that box...it's not what you get out of it, it's what you put into it that counts. It was a cheesy movie, but in it, his younger brother Kenny speaks a Latin phrase. Et mane avis gets erunt vermes is what I heard, and he translated it as the early bird gets the worm. It is actually very close to the translation.

12/12

I've always loved learning about how kings and queens work so, as a result, I like watching shows that have kings and queens in it. So, I've been watching The Crown as well as doing some research. what relates this to Latin is how royalty stylizes themselves. In their official names, they use Rex and Regina as last names. So, for instance, The Queen's official name is Elizabeth Regina II ERII. They also use Roman numerals in they're names.

Blog 12/12

Today in AP music theory, I heard some opera songs by Carl Orff who was a German composer.  He wrote a song called "O Fortuna" which refers to the Roman goddess of luck.  We learn about Roman history in Latin and who ever thought that opera songs can tie into something Roman.  The songs are sang in Italian though and Rome is in Italy.  His songs had great loudness and robust.

Latin Everyday

I was cleaning out my room, and I found a stack of my brothers old books that we read in high school. He is now in college, so I thought I would look around and see if I was reading any of the same books he was reading. As I was going through there were about 10 books all about mythology, ancient rome, and the greek gods. I was then looking through them all and found this mythology book about all of the gods, and I became very interested in it. I ended up reading the whole book that night and learned so much about the gods that I had not known about before. I also learned about brand new gods I have never heard about before, but they were very important in this book. I consider this my latin moment because I was just going though my room and found so much stuff relating to latin, and I didn't even know it was in my bedroom. Finding all of these books made me read further and become more interested in things I didn't know much about. :)

Latin

The word vex came up recently at home and I looked it up. Vex means to annoy or provoke. The word vex comes from the Latin verb vexare meaning to annoy or shake. It is surprising to me how so many Latin words can show up in a everyday conversation.

Latin + Kanye

So I was listening to Kanye on Spotify, and I eventually got to the album Yeezus, which is straight garbage. It started playing one song that isn't terrible, but I realized there was a really stupid line, which is, "keep it 300 like the Romans." I thought about it and remembered that the story of the 300 was Greek, which is weird because Kanye always says he's a genius, but that's really stupid. It also reminded me of Roman life which we are always referring back to.

Latin On Quarters

Last week I was looking for a bunch of quarters to get chickfila on Friday. As I was in line I was looking at the backs of the quarters to see If I had any special ones. I found one with a picture of a drummer and it said E Pluribus Unum. This phrase means Out of Many One. I thought it was just interesting and I hadn't taken much notice of it.

Saturnalia

This week in Latin we are learning about saturnalia. This was basically the Roman version of Christmas and was held around that time. I found learning about the Ancient Roman culture to be very interesting and noticed some very distinct similarities between the two. I also found it interesting that one of the key differences between the roman version and the christmas we celebrate now is the religon that was allowed at the time

The Odyssey Part 2

In the book the Odyssey, the chapters are labeled in Roman Numerals (Vll, X, IV, etc.) instead of regular numbers. This connects to Latin class because a few years ago we vaguely covered the subject and it was the number system used in ancient Rome. Also, when I said etc a second ago, that connects to the Latin word, et cetera, which means "and the rest" so that's fun.

Cornucopia

In Latin class one day, we were trying to define the word "cornucopia", which means horn of plenty, or a symbol of abundance. All I could think about was the cornucopia depicted in the hunger games. The cornucopia from the series is a big area filled with supplies all of the players in the games need for survival. It was a symbol of abundance for the players and this reference helped me translate it correctly.

Latin Moment #4: O Sanctissima

    Hello everyone. For about six years now I have been signing in the Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas. I am in the youth choir as a first Tenor. On a side note from what I am here to talk about, the word "Tenor" is actually from the Latin 'Tenor" which means "a holder". Now, there is also the verb we learned in Latin 2, "Teneo, Tenere, Tenui, Tentus" which means "to hold". As a Tenor in my choir, the word in music means a holder of the melody in a song.

     I don't think this is a coincidence as many terms in music are from Italian forms. (For instance forte, loud, and fortissimo, loudest, are from Italian and Latin origin). Anyway, most music does have many Latin related adjectives that you can decipher without knowing anything about sheet music because they usually look like the superlative, or just the adjective in general (again forte, fortissimo, piano, pianissimo).

     Here is a link to a site that has music terms that come from Italian and Latin. I have found some myself, but you all should try looking because it is very interesting: https://goo.gl/GcSvs5

     More seriously my choir, CCDG, is performing at the Meyerson on the 13th of December, and We will be performing with Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra performing some awesome songs! One part of a song we sing is actually from a Roman Catholic hymn called "O Sanctissima" this hymn, sung in Latin is a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was the mother of Jesus in the Christian faith.

     I won't translate the whole thing, but there are some lines that have grammar we have learned recently. The first line "O sanctissma, O piissima" translates with the superlative form of the adjectives Sancta, Pia to "O most holy, O most loving". The third to last line "Audi nos, O Maria" has a verb that is in the Imperative "Audi". The whole line translates "Hear us, O Mary".

     Down below I will have a translation of the whole hymn, but I just wanted to share a cool Latin moment with everyone, and I hope you all have great holidays.

"O Sanctissima":

-Will Baschab,
12/10/2017

Latin Everyday 12/8

One of the words I heard in a speech by Mr. Bertha today was about Harvard. The words on Harvard's logo is "Veritas". The word means truth, which can be discerned by vero, like its vero, and words like verify come from it. I believe that I was able to discern the meaning because I was able to make a connection between a word and the point of the chapel, honor and honesty, ironic by all means to the plot being described in Mr. Bertha's chapel.

Trip to the Westminster Abbey

Two summers ago I went to London with some family friends, while there we went to the Westminster Abby. It was full of amazing a beautiful things, and it had lots of funeral monuments. I realized that practically every one of the funeral monuments had latin writing in them. Some where short and simple while others were really long and descriptive. I just find it very interesting that Latin was used all over Europe at one point, and it is cool to see all the things that were left behind. Here is one of the writings.

My trip to the mall.

I was with my family at North Park, shopping for new clothes, when my mother walked into the Neiman Marcus store. She said just a minute, and she walked into the store. Annoyed that I had to wait, I looked at the big Neiman Marcus logo. That last word caught my attention as it reminded me of Marcus, an Ecce Romani character. It made me rethink of all the crazy latin stories we translated and learned like Marcus to the Rescue, and Chapter 51 in Ecce Romani II where Marcus assumed the toga virilis.

With Any Luck I Won’t Fail

In my late, but enjoyable, quest to “read”(Audible) all of the Harry Potter books I ran upon a allusion and Latin refrence. During the 6th book there is a potion which is called “Felix Felicis.” The allusion is both words, in the 70’s the mascot Felix the Cat was very popular and he had the quality of being lucky. The Latin connection is because of the second word of the name, “Felicis” which is very, very close to “Feles” which is “cat” in Latin.

12/12 Blog Post

During chapel today one of the songs was Emanuel and apart of the title are the words venim, venim. I immediately knew that this was latin, but I could not remember what was the definition.  Later on I went to my dictionary and I could not find the definition. This shocked me and showed me the importance of knowing the definition. Also during chapel when we were singing this song, I learned that because of Latin, the pronunciation of Israel can differ during the song. I found that this is  even more interesting because Latin has so many effects that we do not even notice.

Blog #3

ABout a week ago we started to read the Odyssey and in that book it has references to Greek Gods and Goddesses. But before we even started the book we did a research project on the different Gods and Goddesses that were going to be in the book. While doing that it made me think of Roman Gods and Goddesses.

Latin Everyday

I saw latin in the english language. It only makes sense because almost all languages influenced each other, and because the origins of latin and english are relatively close compared to other languages. Latin came from Ancient Rome and English came from Anglo-Frisians, a west german group. The word "anglo" changed into "England" and their language became "English".

Latin Blog #3

While making a sandwich in my kitchen, I gathered all my ingredients. Suddenly, when I got to the mayo, I thought of our Latin class. This gave me the idea to make a new recipe for a sandwich called the B4 Latin. I listed my items in Latin and named them after our class. It was very tasty.

Blog Post #3

The scent of Cheeto puffs entered my mind as I was listening to Downtown by Macklemore, as I was browsing the internet when the cheesy an crunchy taste made my tongue feel good. This reminded me about the story of Julius Cesar, and how he got betrayed by Cassus and Brutus. This made me reflect on how fun Latin history is, and I hope to continue learning it.

Latin everyday post

In English class we were reading a piece of writing. I was fairly bored and then I heard a latin name I recognized. The name was Cornelius! I looked around the class and I noticed that another latin student was in the class and he obviously recognized this as well. We both immediately looked at each other and giggled. At this moment I was proud to be in Latin. Later that week we went over to my Grandma's house in Bluff Dale, Texas. There she used to run an antique shop for a while. When I told her that the word antique comes from the latin word antiqua she was very impressed. Because of my journey's in latin I have been able to impress my grandmother and have cool moments with my friends!

Historia Civilis

While looking at Latin tutorials I started looking at various different Youtube channels. After some time I started watching some videos from Historia Civilis. This channel does a bunch of different things. First, it recreates different battles from history. For instance, it tracks Caesar's campaign against the Gauls. It also describes in detail how the Romans voted and how the different classes were divided. This channel is a good jumping off point to learn about many different classical ideas.

Latin Blog 10/30

I was reading an article about Rome women and I saw that Plato's mother was named Perictione.  Plato was a Greek philosopher and his statue reminds me of something related to a Roman monument that could have to do with some Latin.  The name "Plato" sounds like Pluto as well.  Pluto is the Roman name for the God of the underworld.  His name is Hades.  I remember studying Greek gods in Latin class.

Latin Everyday - SMU Architecture

Earlier this month, I went to a lecture at SMU for a class. We went to one of the buildings that was part of the Cox School of Business, and I noticed that the architecture was similar to ancient Rome. On the building, I noticed Doric columns. I also saw Doric and Ionic columns in other areas of the campus.

Jackson Blog post

In Latin class, we have just finished the fakebook project. My Fakebook person was Cleopatra. She was very interesting and very popular back in the times of ancient Rome. While doing this project my figured out that my mom had done a project of Cleopatra in her schooling years. She shared with me some things that her Cleopatra project helped her learn. I was very surprised to hear that she had done a similar project. I really think that this project helped me understand what it is like in the times of the ancient Romans.

I was watching vice on my phone, and I saw an article on mutant medicines and I saw a few words in latin that I didnt understand. I only knew they were in latin because when I looked them up it said that their origin was latin. (this is true just so you know) One of the words I looked up was  ganglioneuralgia

finland

There is a news station in Finland on the radio that broadcasts only in latin. It is called Nuntii Latini. While researching "Finland", I happened upon a startling discovery. It appears that Finland probably doesn't exist. The world population is a bit more than 7 billion right now. The Finnish population makes up for about 0.09% of that population. The census agency that put together this statistic is accurate within 1%. That means that all of their figures can be 1% off from the actual truth. Since Finland makes up for less than one tenth of one percent, a 1% difference erases it entirely. Since 0.09 is less than 1/10 of 1, it is not only feasible, but it is statistically likely for Finland to not exist at all. In conclusion, Finland does not exist, and neither does the radio station Nuntii Latini.

Latin Everyday #Whatever this is

Though I have already written about this previously, I have new knowledge of Caesar's Legion in Fallout New Vegas, as I have played more and more. My previous post was not too descriptive, but I now know more about the Legion and can better link them to the Roman Empire. Caesar's Legion began as a single tribe somewhere in the central Untied States, just as Rome did in Italy, but tribe by tribe they conquered the wasteland, using the men for soldiers and women for slaves. The Legion is lead by one single man, Caesar, who has a council of his top countrymen to aid him on his decisions, but he is very well educated, which is hard to come by in the Mojave. Just as the Legion is parallel with the Roman Empire in their history, the way they act is as well. Everyone is proud to be a Legionare, they all praise Caesar to end dialogue, if you're not in the Legion they address you as scum, and if you are they address you as Ave. There are many connection to Latin here, even those whom Caesar wants to use are given a necklace called the Mark of Caesar. Along with what I've described, the Legion also uses strictly melee weapons like swords.

Latin everyday 3

In physics today I was reading about Aristotle a Greek philosopher that came up with the laws of gravity. At the bottom of the page, there were some ancient statues of Aristotle and this reminded me of the statues that roman senators got of themselves.

Aristotle 

Roman senator

Latin in papers

For English II Honors, we had to write an analytical paper about a novel that we recently finished called Siddhartha. My friends and I were editing each other's papers for clarity and analysis. While editing one of my peer's essays, I saw that she used a Latin word to define one of her concepts. The word was persona, which is described as the socially and personally acceptable mask that the individual present to others and, to some degree, to him or herself.

The Triumvirate

My friend Simin and I were on a website for wealth management. (Don't ask) We saw that the company was run by three men and there was a picture of them on the front page. This reminded me of the Roman Triumvirate with Caesar, Pompey, and Marcus.

Prestonwood game

On our last volleyball game, the JV volleyball team played Preston wood. As we started warming up I noticed their motto said Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. After the game, Donae and I looked at our Ecco Romani and found the meaning. In english the motto translate to "For the greater glory of god".

Latin in Universities

While going on many different college tours, I have found that many universities have latin somewhere in the brochures. Many use latin for their school mottos such as Tulane University, University of Texas, and even Harvard University. Tulane's motto is "non sibi sed suis", which means "not for one's self, but for one's own", University of Texas's motto is "disciplina praesidium civitatis" which means "education is the guardian of society", and Harvard's motto is "veritas" simply meaning "truth". Latin is even used for some of the names of schools. Villanova University is named in latin. Villanova means "new town" in Latin.

Latin Everyday 3

In English Class right now, we are reading The Odyssey, by Homer. It is a book based on The Gods and mythology, but it uses the Greek Names of Gods. Most of the Greek Gods are the same as the Roman Gods, but Roman Gods have different names. Roman Gods are named after planets. For Example: Greek - Zeus, Roman - Jupiter.

Austin Odyssey

For English, we have been given the assignment of reading the Odyssey an ancient epic. The book is the sequel to the Illiad and both were originally in Greek. They are a few more books following the same story written by Romans later on.  The Odyssey was also very popular in Rome. The story though was first told orally before it was written down by Homer.

Odyssey

I was assigned to read the book Odyssey for my english class, and I wasn't all that too excited to read it because my sister told me it was horrible. I started to read it and didn't really understand all of the gods in the book so I started to look them up and I learned about so many that I didn't even know were gods. Like Athena, I know she is a god, she can shape shift. I had no idea she could do that until I read the book. I have learned different terms for all of the gods such as, grey eyed goddess is Athena. I also learned how to pronounce a lot of different names in the book. Latin has definitely given me a lot of background information in this book and it helped me a lot!

- Lizzie Kelley

Its Latin Everyday

So I was out getting ice cream after school, as you do. I ordered a scoop of cookies and cream and as I passed over the money I noticed something on the bill. It was Latin! There was a phrase by the Illuminati pyramid and it read: “Novus Ordo Seclorum". When I got home I opened my Latin book and translated it to: "a new order of the ages". It's so cool that latin can be found in anything and everything.

The Odyssey

In English 1 we are reading the Greek epic The Odyssey. In this book it talks about the Trojan War. In this war a warrior named Aeneas fought on the side of the Trojans. When the war was lost Aeneas fled with his men and landed in Italy. Aeneas and his men became what was later Rome. Aeneas is also the protagonist of Roman epic The Aeneid.

Luke Hanft

Matrix

So in Algebra 2, we are learning about matrix's and how to solve them. One of the thing that you need to know when solving a matrix is to tell the difference between a column and a row. I was having trouble telling them apart. One of the tricks that Mrs. Denison told me was to think the columns look like a Roman column. That they go up and down and they hold up buildings. Ever since she told me that I haven't gotten confused since.

Blog Post #3

So, in Geometry we were discussing complementary and supplementary angles in our class. I had this enlightenment kind-of idea, it really sparked in my mind. I remembered that comparatives and superlatives are to compare to and be superior to. More and most, which I realized has a similar effect as well.  For example, if two angles' measures equal 90, then they are complementary, further stating that they are more, and same for supplementary with the value of 180. Com- and Sup-, thee two prefixes connect these two ideas from across the plane of subjects. Language really does have a way with communicating the same idea through different means and different subjects for that matter. This was a discovery on my end, and I would like to continue making such enlightening discoveries as the year progress and my Latin knowledge and comprehension increases beyond the expectation.

Latin Everyday #3

About a week ago our team had a volleyball game at Prestonwood Christian Academy. While we were waiting to warm up I noticed some writing on the walls. As I got closer I noticed they were in Latin. The writing said Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. Which translates as "To the greater glory of God". When I saw this I was with Sydney Holland who is also in Latin so we decided to translate it. But our translation came out a little different as "Glory to the greater God".

Latin everyday 3

In this show the supernatural I was casually watching it one night when a episode about the vestal virgins came on. It was about these people that  pledged to say virgins then lost it have been going missing. It was super odd because I was watching it and it sounded oddly familiar the monster that was taking the people had them in this underground cave where they were slowly going to die of hunger. I was watching it and I was thinking that sounds just like the Vestal Virgins and what happens to them when they break their vow. Then they found out later in the episode that it actually was Vesta the goddess of the hearth that was kidnapping people and burying them alive. I just found it really funny how I figured out it was Vesta before the people in the show could. It just shows that we use latin in new odd ways.

Latin Moment #3: The Martian

     So recently I have been re-reading The Martian by Andy Weir. This book, in short is about Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets stranded on mars by himself after a serve weather storm. Mark, who was the botanist and mechanical engineer on his crew, uses his skills in order to survive the dangerous challenges Mars presents him. I recommend this book to anyone interested in space, but I think everyone would enjoy the book. I could talk about The Martian all day, of course, but I'm going to share the Latin moments I found within the story.

     First off, Mars the planet was named by the Romans aside from the Moon and Sun. It was named after the god of war, Mars, who was an important god to roman soldiers. Mars, the god, also rode a chariot pulled by two horses named Phobos and Deimos. The two small moons that orbit Mars are also called Phobos and Deimos. In the book, Mark Watney uses the small moon Phobos as a way to tell which direction. He comments how the name Phobos means fear, and how he is being guided metaphorically by fear.

Mars, the god, on his Chariot being pulled by the horses, Phobos and Deimos:

Mars, the planet, and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos:

     The next Latin moment I encountered in the book was when Mark refers to entering and exiting of his base as Ingresses and Egresses. Recently, I learned in Latin that the word ingress means 'to enter', but I also found out later that the word egress means 'to go out'. Because I knew the Latin, the concepts of ingress and egress in the book made sense.

     My last Latin moment in the book, was when Mark Watney explains where his base is on Mars' surface. The base is located on Acidalia Planitia, a very flat region of Mars located between the Tharsis volcanic region, and another region called Arabia Terra. the first word, Acidalia is a Latin word that describes something with the quality of the god, Venus. The second word, Planitia means 'low plain'. I think that the words together mean that Acidalia Planitia is a low plain with qualities like Venus the god. It might also have qualities like the planet Venus, because Acidalia Planitia is right next to a volcanic region. Because it is super flat, Acidalia Planitia aids Mark Watney when he explores in his rover. He is able to get father to his destination because the region is so flat.

Acidalia Planitia:

     Well, those were my Latin moments, and I know I wrote a lot, but I really enjoyed The Martian as a book, and there were many moments I found Latin references.

- Will Baschab

Blog Post #3

I have been reading a new book(It's called Salt to the Sea, it is pretty good, highly recommend it.) and in one of the chapters one of the characters, Emilia, says "Per aspera ad, astra." Though the author gave the translation, I immediately sight translated and the phrase mean: through hardship to the stars. The character, Emilia, said that her father use to say it  to her whenever she complained something was difficult. I think this phrase is interesting because the book is about WWII, and Emilia is in the thick of monstrosity of the war. It is almost depressing but also inspiring in a way to see her be slightly optimistic that things could perhaps get better. It is also nice to see authors use latin, because it is a really pretty written language and it adds an extra element to the story.

Blog post #3

In English 1 at Parish Episcopal School,  We have been reading and annotating the epic poem The Odyssey and have been learning about its author Homer and the events that preceded it in the Trojan War. The Greek epic poem was a major contribution to Roman mythology because it features many Roman gods and goddesses. We have only reached Book 3 of the poem so far; however, it already features the many ways our society has evolved since ancient times. One example: in the novel, Odysseus's son has plans to kill the suiters who have infested his home and eaten his inheritance. The out right brutality that this implies is unheard of in the 21st century but was quite common in ancient Greece.

Podcasts are full of Latin!!!

So I was listening to another podcast, as I do, and they were talking about laws that prosecuted pirates!  They said that since Roman times, pirates have always been considered universal enemies. The Romans, they said, had a term for them: hostis humani generis.  Ding, ding, ding! That's Latin! Now, of course the podcast was kind and translated the phrase for all those uneducated listeners, but I didn't need it...pirates are the enemy of the human race. Once again, Latin wins the day...and also, the Romans invented everything!

And now, here's my cat dressed as a pirate.

Latin everyday #3

I've been playing a new game recently and it was discovered that one of the characters has an intense fear of the supernatural. I examined the symptoms of fear he was showing and using this I was able to find out that these are the symptoms of a phobia. Not just any phobia, Phasmophobia, the phobia of supernatural most commonly ghost. Phasmophobia descends from the Latin word Phasma which means ghosts. The phobia can also be called spectrophobia which descends from the Latin word spectrum which means specter or apparition.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azka-latin

During my free time and when  I don’t feel like listening to music I will listen to audiobooks on Audible. Currently I am listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and (MINOR SPOILER ALERT) the character: Professor Lupen has been introduced, obviously Lupen’s name is derived from the Latin word, “Lupus” which means “Wolf”

Latin everyday 3

I was watching a TV show and they mentioned the Greek myth of the Phoenix. It talked about how the world would be burned and reborn in the ashes. this relates to Latin because the Phoenix was a mythical Greek bird that whenever it died it would turn to ash and be reborn in the ashes.

Latin Everyday #3

Over the past few week I have seen many examples of Latin in the community. My favorite one of all of them is in our poetry section in English we are reading a poem called Dulce et Decorum and it is about WWI and this soldier and his experiences. It ends the poem with the saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which I think means "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland." I liked seeing this because it was cool to see that writers are using latin in their writing and it was cool to be able to detect that it was latin.

Latin Moment- Alec

Today I will be talking about my favorite game again, Overwatch. There was recently a new update that added a spooky Halloween theme to the game. Several of the characters or "heroes" got costumes with this new update. I will be talking about one of these costumes in particular. The first one I noticed right off the bat was the costume for Ana one of the characters in over watch, this costume was called Corsair. I quickly thought of Latin and looked up the translation, and it translated to the Latin word Pirata. It is funny and cool to see the developers of the game using Latin as a tool to name different costumes, maps, or ability's in their game. here is a picture of the Ana costume.

Blog Post #3

Today I saw latin in our English work. We were using a translation of one of our poems from Latin! Seeing my Latin knowledge cross over from Latin class to English was cool because it helped demonstrate to me how Latin is everywhere and in everything.

Latin Blog Post Jackson Harris

Throughout these blog posts, I feel like latin is popping up everywhere. In English, we're reading poems with a Latin translation. This was very interesting it should me that Latin can be used everywhere and that Latin can help you with even English. It also taught me some new vocab words. I think Latin can help me with all my other subjects even Chemistry!!

Blog Post #3: Watchmen

While reading my favorite graphic novel, Alan Moore's Watchmen, I noticed a saying that was printed in several parts. The saying was, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Translating to "who watches the watchmen", this phrase fits the story quite well. It is used to convey the message of fearing authority, especially from those who take it into their own hands.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

I recently learned of a terrifying disease that causes the victim's muscles to gradually be replaced by bone. The name of this condition is Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. When I heard the name of the disease, I thought that it sounded like Latin. The disease name translates roughly to: progressive ossific fiber displacement. To ossify means to turn to bone.

Blog post 3

I was in my house and I saw my parents had a book on Julius Caesar and I asked my mom why she had it and she said because she took a latin course in high school and I was surprised. She said she hated it but was proud of me for taking it.

duce exemplum

I was watching I Robot with my dad, and saw some latin on his police badge. On the badge it said, duce exemplum which means lead by example. I also watched one of the transformers movies with my dad, and the main character name is Optimus Prime, which means the best first. 

Dulce et Decorum est

Today in English class, we were learning more about poems and the structure of a poem. We had to decided to read and annotate a poem called "Dulce et Decorum" est by Wilfred Owen. This Latin phrase translates to "It is sweet and honorable". This poem talks about a veteran's perspective of World War 1 and about the horrors of war. He says that the phrase Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori is a lie. The author describes that he watch a man die choking on toxic gas and that death goes without any glory or respect.

Latin Everyday - Grocery Store

Over the weekend, I went to the grocery store. I was paying for my groceries and pulled out two quarters, because change is stupid. A guy behind me in line lectured me for five minutes about the meaning behind "E Pluribus Unum", which is a Latin phrase that means "Out of many, one". He explained that it's referring to the multiple United States that fall under one America. I don't know if he was being poetic and patriotic, or if that was actually true. However, I do now know after looking it up, that he was right. Shout out to Bill for teaching me about Latin and America, even though I already knew about it... sort of.

this is a quarter

Latin Everyday 2

In this lifestyle I follow, the correct faction to follow is called Caesar's Legion. The game this is from is called Fallout New Vegas, and their goal in the game is to turn to Mojave into Rome. Their uniforms are Legionare's armor, and their leader is Caesar. In the storyline they are in a stalemate with the New California Republic over the Hoover Dam, and throughout your game the Legion takes slaves and tries to make you join. When in Rome, take slaves and make the Mojave great again.

Biology

In biology we were talking about some terminology and some of the prefixes were from Latin. The topics that we were talking about were about proteins and carbohydrates. Some of the terms that were talking about were monosaccharide or polysaccharide. Some of the other topics we were talking about nucleic acid's and lipids.

Latin Everyday

Over the summer I read The Red Rising trilogy which uses many different aspects of Roman Empire culture including military, political and basic terms. The books are set far in the future but the Society models itself off of Roman society. The political system although working differently to the Romans uses the same terms and phrases like praetor. They also use the same military ranks and positions like Imperator and Legion. Along with political and military words, they also use latin for their house mottos. The most prevalent in the book was "Hic Sunt Leones" which the characters translate to "Here Be Lions".

Everyday Latin 2

While I was shopping at JC Penny's I passed by a shirt that had some writing on it. As I got closer I noticed that it was in latin. The first word that I recognized was numquam. The whole phrase was Draco dormiens numquam titillandus which mean Never tickle a sleeping dragon. This was a Harry Potter shirt.

Latin Everyday #2

I was looking at vocabulary words in a short story I was reading for english, and I had to find the definition and put it into my own sentence. When I was reading the story I came upon the word: abscond. When I looked it up the definition came up as: leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft. I looked down at word origin, and it said it came from mid 16th century latin. So I decided to read more about it and, according to dictionary.com, abscond comes from the latin word ab - away and condere -stow. Add those together and you get abscondere which means hide and that is super close to the english definition. I will now definitely remember this word in the future because I found a latin connection to help me remember!

- Lizzie Kelley

Latin Blog #2

Yesterday, me and my family went down to the Zoo. It was a long weekend and my mom thought it would be a great family activity if we all went down to the Zoo. I rolled my eyes, and eventually agreed to go, but only because she would punish me if I didn't. When we across the many exhibits, I saw one thing that stood out to me. I saw out the corner of my eye a lion. My mind then had a flashback to our Latin class. It made me remember of the Romeo and Juliet type story we learned in Latin class that included a Lion. The story was the same except that it was a Lion that "killed" the "Juilet" instead of poison.

Latin Everyday 2

In my parent's office, my dad has a Harvard plaque. Their motto is Veritas, which means truth. I think that this is a good motto because it shows that they are trying to teach students to be honest and virtuous.

Latin Everyday 2

You can see Latin in many different places and ways. You see Latin in medical words and stems, such as "-al", which means "pertaining to" coming from the latin stem "-alis", and "-ation" which means process. This is most likely because we use these words because they are more likely to be more widely known than english words. It may also be because using Latin words can shorten up the name of an item. That is all I have to say about this subject.

Latin Blog #2

In English, we got assigned a poem that we had to read and analyze. But what makes me think of Latin when I read this poem was the title. The title is Dulce et Decorum Est which means How sweet and proper it is to die for one's country. It is a poem about soldiers on the western front in the Great War. Also in a WW1 video game, I played as an Italian Arditi soldier. Their motto is O la vittoria, o tutti accoppati which means, We either win, or we all die. 

Comparisons to Caesar

In a podcast I was listening, the guest was complaining about how long it took the city of Boston to repair a little bridge on the Charles River. 5 years, he said! And then, the guest compared that extensive length of time to when Caesar and his army built a bridge over the Rhine River in pursuit of the Helvetians. The River was many times larger than the Charles and Caesar did it in only a few days. I loved this little comparison because I had just read this very passage in Caesar's de Bello Gallico with my AP Latin students!
--Dr. Morgan


Source: http://www.mikeanderson.biz/2011/12/caesars-rhine-bridge-rome-showcases-its.html

Latin in Geography

While in AP United States History, our class was talking about where some of the original thirteen colonies got their names. Some of them were named after kings and queens in England. The colony Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth meaning "country of the virgin". Pennsylvania was also originally named in latin. William Penn named it after himself and after the thick trees he found. He put together Penn- and "sylvania", meaning "woods", thus it became Penn's woods.

Latin Word 10/10

During this past weekend, I was in Waco visiting my brother's college.  We saw a building called Neff Hall and it had Ionic columns.  It was named in honor of the 9th president of Baylor University college.  Someone named Pat Neff Hall came to serve as a symbol of the university’s legacy and tradition.  The arrival of a large amount of students under the presidency of former Texas Governor Pat Neff led to overcrowded classrooms and decreasing faculty space. 

Latin

In a game called Borderlands 2, you can buy stuff from special vending machines. These vending machines, when used, have several voice lines. One of these voice lines is "Caveat emptor". This is a Latin phrase meaning "Let the buyer beware". Caveat, meaning beware (coming from the verb cavere) and emptor, meaning buyer.

Luke Hanft

Everyday Latin

Over the weekend I was driving through my town, McKinney, and I noticed that some of the houses I was passing had columns on them. Columns were a very popular style in Roman culture, you see them on the Colosseum. It got me thinking that many aspects of Roman architecture still show up in modern architecture. The column look is still very popular today and can be seen everywhere. 

Ad Astra Per Aspera

The other day I was curious about the many other states and their flags after noticing that Kansas's flag did not follow the design of the American flag like Texas did. Instead, their flag featured specific artwork and included a motto, clearly in Latin. This motto is as follows: "Ad Astra Per Aspera". This motto directly translates as "To the stars through difficulty". It helped me to realize that aiming for dreams is not easy and requires hard work and dedication. This is my connection to Latin and there will be more in the future.

English Paper

In English, we were reading a short story packet and one of them was called A Cask of Amontillado, and in that story, they used the Latin phrase, "Nemo me impune lacesscit," which means, "No one attacks me with impunity." This is probably the most obvious latin connection ever and the phrase was on the family of the protagonist's crest.

Latin Every Post #2(10/10): Rick and Morty moment (again)

          I have already had a Rick and Morty moment where Rick says something about Jerry being like Julius Caeser, but in season three, episode nine: "The Ricklantis Mixup" I actually saw some Latin words. Inside the classroom from this episode, we see the words "Motto Autem Diem: Acta non verba."
          In the first phrase, Motto is a nominative singular noun literally meaning exactly what it looks like, "motto". The next part of the phrase, "Autem Diem" is more complicated, because Autem means however, but Diem is an accusative singular noun meaning day. I don't think the phrase means "Motto however day." but, I do think it might mean "Motto of the day" because that makes more sense.
           The next phrase "Acta non Verba" is much more simpler. Acta and Verba are both plural nominatives. It doesn't look like it, and at first you might think they are ablative, but they are neuter words in the second declension, so they decline with the plural ending being "a". It translates all together saying "Motto of the day: Actions, not Words"
          I think this Latin phrase is important to the episode because at the end, Evil Morty explains that he isn't going to be doing more speeches, and that "Now, is the time for action" (Evil Morty). This Latin phrase on the classroom board is very important because now Evil Morty is going to be doing actions to destroy the citadel.
- Will Baschab

Flaccus- Latin every day post

I found a video game a few years back called Rome 2 Total War. This video game consisted of conquering the Mediterranean as the Roman Faction. Allowing you to fight and conquer grand nations of the fast such as the Carthaginians and the barbarians. By maintaining armies with high tier troops and strategically putting buildings in your provinces you can win the game and get the experience of a great Roman consul. 

Everyday latin 2

I learned this latin everyday fact some time ago but I still think it is very cool. In latin lupis is the word for wolf, and as most people will know when a person changes into a werewolf they usually change on the full moon, and lupis sounds a lot like luna and luna means moon. We also call eclipse the lunar eclipse. I just find it really cool that we still hold the same myths, such as the werewolf, from thousands of years ago.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Werewolf_%28Doctor_Who%29.jpg
 

Optimus

In my latin class my awesome latin teacher, Dr. Morgan, talked to us about optimus primus. This was very interesting. In fact optimus primus has nothing to do what optimus prime from transformers. In latin, optimus primus actually means the best first. I thought this was cool because similar to Harry Potter, the author seems to have a love for Latin and the put in little hints of that.  

Cry-less Whispers

During Humanities last year I tasked myself with writing about chemical warfare in World War 1 or The Great War. I found out that the technical name for tear gas is lachrymator. Doesn’t lachrymator sound suspiciously simmilar to a certain Latin word we know?

Latin Everyday #3

Over the weekend, I was with some friends from out of town and we decided to play a board game. This board game's name was Dixit. Dixit of course means in latin "it said". Knowing this latin vocabulary word, it gave the board game a whole other meaning, because in the board game you only got to say one word each turn. The name of the game was also the rules, which I think is very clever and knowing the vocabulary made the game even more enjoyable.

Latin Everyday 1

I was in the car the other day with my mom, and she brought up a Latin word. I told her that I knew the word but that I was trying to think of exactly what it meant. We put our heads together and I was able to remember what it meant. I don’t remember the word exactly, but I’m pretty sure it was vici, which means to conquer. I remember feeling glad that I had come across a Latin term outside of just talking about Latin class with my family.

Latin Word

     When we were going over the syllabus in world history on the second day of school, one of the things we were discussing was classroom decorum.  Decorum means behavior and it reminds me of other Latin words because it ends in "um."  That ending is used for neuter words.  It is also used for accusative singular in second declension as well as genitive plural in third declension.  Those who have good classroom decorum learn well so they become well-educated and are able to get into a good college.

Latin in Math by Jackson Harris

While i was doing my math homework we had to watch videos over colinear and nonlinear planes. This got me thinking about co and non. Co means with and Non mean with out. This means that a point on a line shares a line with another point. Non means the exact opposite. This is how I found latin in everyday life.

Latin Everyday

Last week I had my regular cleaning at the dentist. I was not happy about it but then I started doing some thinking. I looked up the word dentist and I realized that the word is actually Latin. I found that very interesting because my mom is a dental assistant and she works in a dental office all the time. At the same time I wasn't surprised because dentistry is a type of medicine and a lot of words in medicine are Latin. I overall found it very cool to see all the different things that have latin in or on them around me.

Everyday Latin

Over the weekend I watched the movie Gladiator. The movie is about when Commodus takes power and strips ranks from Maximus, who just so happens to be a general and predecessor of his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus is then commended to fight to the death in the gladiator arenas. The movie is based on  true story from Roman history. Although Maximus is a made up character, Aurelius and and Commodus are not. This movie was just one way Roman history has shown up in my life. Gladiator fights were a big part of Roman life. Although a majority of the time, the fights didn't end in death till later in Roman history, it did happen. Mainly it was just a show for the people to watch. This was one of the earliest forms of sports in early roman history. Roman history shows itself all around me daily, I just never noticed it until I started taking Latin.

Everyday Latin

Last Saturday, I was watching The Evil Dead and noticed the main characters reading in Latin. The teens find a book called the Necronomicon, also called Naturom Demonto, meaning book of the dead. There is also a fake Latin phrase that was made up as a way to destroy the book when said. The phrase is, "Klaatu barada nikto."

Latin Everyday

Today, video games are a large and growing culture, and with that many little easter eggs and references can be made. One example of this is in the popular team based shooter Overwatch. The character Doomfist has an emote, in which he is making a thumbs up, holding it sideways, and dangling it on the cusp of thumb down and thumb up, which he ends up going thumb down. This is a reference to gladiator fights where the Emperor would decide the fate of the combatants.

Another one is in another video game, though old, The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. In this game you eventually come upon an arena which you can enter and fight other gladiators surrounded by cheering fans until you gain the title, Grand Champion.

Carpe Diem

In the middle of a conversation I heard the phrase "carpe diem" which means "to seize the day". I was talking to my mom about procrastination and she told me to seize the day, meaning to make the most of my time. I knew the word "diem" meant day and was in the accusative case. I also knew the word "carpe" came from the verb "carpo" which means to seize. I put the words together and figured out the meaning. I plan to use this phrase in everyday life from now on.

Over the weekend some of my friends I went to mi cocina for dinner. We were all talking about spanish because its a spanish themed restaurant. They were saying how they take spanish and I told them all about latin. They thought it was very interesting when I told them about all the romance languages that come from latin. They were surprised when english was not one of them. This was a very cool latin experience.

Latin Everyday

I was driving around with my family earlier this weekend going to my sister's soccer game when I saw a court house out the window. When I saw the pillars outside it reminded me of Latin and how the Roman architecture that was popular so long ago is still popular today. It also reminded me about our Latin Every day blog and decided to share my experience.

Latin Everyday

There is a game I, and many others play called Over Watch. I personally love this game and its graphical design, and one of the maps you play on is called, Illios. Illios is in fact a real place, and it is very breath taking, But i'm going to focus on one sub map in particular.  This sub-map is called Illios, Ruins, and heavily derives from the architecture of Greece and Rome and its famous pillar based architecture.  Most of this map is made out of marble or stone and it even has a statue of a goddess in the middle. This goddess is most likely Diana.

Latin Everyday - OUAT

While watching the TV show Once Upon a Time, the word magister appeared over the doorway of a mayor's office. Magister means teacher, which I think means that the mayor is there to explain and teach the community how things work. The mayor is the Evil Queen, so it could also mean that she is the leader and power, just as a teacher is in a classroom.

Roman Architecture

This weekend I went down town to get my passport renewed and I saw roman Architecture  on a lot of the buildings there. The building I went in had a lot in particular though. It had large roman columns and was made out of what looked like white marble.

Latin everyday

So it was my birthday this weekend and I got a letter from my grandma. The letter had a picture of a dog on it. This reminded me of how the last Latin class we had, we talked about the wolf that took care of Romulus and Remus, and also how the Romans also had dogs.

Latin Everyday

Recently I have been playing a video game called Subnautica. 'Subnautica' loosely translates to 'below the sea', 'sub' meaning below and 'nautica' having to do with sailors and navigation on the sea. The translation fits the game as it is mostly based under the sea. 'Sub' in this phrase is used as an ablative of 'place where'.

My Latin Moment-Austin

This weekend I wore a T-shirt that my grand mother got in Rome. Over the summer she took a cruise to Italy and went to Monaco and Rome. She came back with a few souvenirs one of which was my T-shirt. But it doesn't only remind me of Latin because it comes from Italy but it says Veni Vidi Vici. Which means I came, I saw, I concurred.

Paris Map

In our house, we have a map of Paris that tells you all of the different sites in the city. At the top and on the sides there is Latin that tells you about the "people of the city". First, on the sides of the map, there are pictures that have captions with the different names of the people. For instance, it has "Rex/Regina Galliae" which translates to "King/Queen of France" There are a few more of these depicting the Nobles, Plebians, and Farmers of France. There is also a title at the top of the Map saying: " LUTETIA PARISORUM URBES, TOTO ORBE CELEBERRIMA NOTISSIMAQUE, CAPUT REGNI FRANCIA" which translates to: " The City of Paris,  famous to us and the entire world, head of the King of France". Relics of the past are all around us that keep Latin alive.

My latin Experience - Nik

The other day I was assigned Edgar Allan Poe to read for English 1. In the Short Story (Spoiler Alert) the main character kills his another man and, at the end, exclaims "In Pace requiescat!."This phrase translates to "May he rest in peace."I found it interesting that Edgar Allan Poe knew some Latin and then it dawned on me. A persons writing capability is exponentially increased with a basic comprehension of latin and it can be a great advantage to know the roots of the English language.

Old Parkland Hospital

About a week ago on my way to school I saw a building and it was the Old Parkland Hospital downtown. I noticed it had a few words on it, so the next day I decided to look harder. On one side of the building it read "Novus Ordo Seclorum" which means new order of the ages. On the other side it read "MDCCCXCIV" which is 1894 and "MMXIV" which is 2014. This shows that I pass by latin references everyday that I don't normally see.

Crucifixion

I went to church and remembered that the Romans crucified people for committing crimes. Crucifixion is when someone is nailed by their hands and feet to a giant wooden cross. They are left there until they die. The reason that going to church reminded me of this is that Jesus was crucified as well as many of his followers. After the crucifixion of Jesus, the cross was turned form a symbol of execution to a symbol of religion.

Latin Words

On Friday I had went to the first varsity football game. During my time there, I had bought a couple of shirts and other things like food, drinks, etc. I had received some change and as sat their counting the money, I remembered there is a ton of latin on the U.S dollar. The first phrase, which is on the top of the pyramid, is Annuit Coeptis which mean "He approves of our undertakings." The next phrase is Novus Ordo Serclorum which means "a new order of the ages".  The last latin phrase I saw is E Pluribus Unum which mean "one out of many". This shows how long Latin dates back and how it is still used in everyday life like currency. 

I was reading about regions in my global cultures class, and I cam across a word that I was unfamiliar with so I looked it up. The word was homogeneous, and it means of the same kind or essentially alike. Later I was talking to my advisor about it, who is also the latin teacher, and she said that she thought that that word comes from a latin root. I later looked the word up again and found out that homogeneous comes from medieval latin. After learning about how this word relates to latin I learned that things I learn in different subjects relate back to latin. I think that knowing that homogeneous comes from a latin root it helps me to understand the word more fully. Learning latin will help me in the future when I have questions about vocabulary.

Rick and Morty Latin Moment

         So, a couple of days ago I was just sitting on the couch re-watching the first episode of Rick and Morty, when I hear Rick say "Listen, Jerry. I-I-I don't want to overstep my bounds or anything. It's your house. It's your world. You're a real Julius Caesar but I'll tell you something..." This, to me, was an interesting reference to the last roman consul, Julius Caesar. Caesar was seen as arrogant, strong, and cocky at some points in his life, which, in the end, led him to being stabbed by the senate of Rome. When Rick calls Jerry "a real Julius Caesar", he is trying to say that Jerry is arrogant like Caesar and isn't accepting of Rick. This was a genius way to describe Rick and Jerry's relationship by the writers of the show, and was a hard-to-find Latin reference.
--Will Baschab

Retreat Words

One of the activities we had to do during retreat was to have reflection time for 15 minutes. One of the things Mr. Vallejo talked to us about what about the five "P's" he goes by. One of the "P's" he talked about was prepare. He told us to prepare for anything. He was telling us that "pre" comes from latin that means before. I just thought that was cool because some of the basic words we know comes from Latin.

My Latin Everyday Experience

I've always been fascinated by dinosaurs, but one thing stuck out to me. The names of dinosaurs are fantastic, and can really tell you what the dinosaur probably did. Look at the velociraptor, its name coming from the latin words "vēlōx", meaning speed, and "rapere", meaning grab hold of, or seize. This means that "velociraptor" means "speedy thief". And look at another good one, the avimimus, a small bird-like maniraptoran. It's name coms from the latin words "Avis", meaning bird, and "mimus", meaning mimic. Latin is everywhere, even when you look at times before latin. 

One Latin thing I have come across in the real world is "Illum Lutum Amamus" We use this saying at camp before we jump into a mud pit. It is on the back of one of my tee shirts and when I was wearing it I was reminded of this.

Latin Everyday

Yesterday I was reading a book and the main character of the book, Wade, is a highschool student who also takes Latin. While in class, Wade's teacher has him conjugate the verb "to learn" or discere. I found this really funny because we had just had a quiz over chapter 40 vocabulary and that was one of the words we studied. Before the character even said the latin I already knew what "to learn" was in latin. Another fun little latin moment I had was when I was watching Dead Poets Society  a couple days ago, and one of the scenes was a latin classroom with the students saying their declensions. It reminded me of our class with us going over and over and over all the endings. On the blackboard in this scene was also latin nouns and verbs, and even though it went by quickly, I recognized/translated the principle parts of amo, "to love". Though latin is a dead language, it still is very prevalent in our culture, particularly books and movies, which is fun because it adds a whole other layer of meaning to the scene that you are reading or watching if you have studied latin.

Latin Everyday

So, a few days ago I was reading my Global Cultures textbook when I came across two phrases with Latin origin, "i.e." and "e.g.". When seeing these phrases, I immediately remembered the day Mr. Stewart taught us Latin Mottoes and how in English, Latin mottoes are used to convey something unrecognizable to English culture. Anyway, I thought this was cool and how it really made me think about Latin before high school. I hope to correlate more events in my life and to Latin and the relationship they share.

Yesterday, I was out and about in the mall with my friends when I peered into the window seeing a humongous figure of a knight that looked like a gladiator in the window. I had a flashback in my head to when Mr. Dopico and our class talked about gladiators, and how they fought and all about them. We learned why they fought, how they were forced to fight, how often they died, and how they were praised. I also remembered when our class and Dr. Morgan talked about gladiators too. I remembered how she talked about if you were a good gladiator and got beat, the crowd would spear you from death, but if you were a bad gladiator and died, it wasn't going to go to well for you. This figure refreshed my memory on our study on Gladiators while we were in Latin II and III.

In World History Honors there was a video that used latin for the scientific names of the plague. The video was a parody of Hollerback girl by Gwen Stefani. The main chorus for the song was oh, fleas on rats. The video showed many pieces of art that had skeletons on it. The Skeletons in the video also said mortuus which means dead. It was really cool to see latin in another subject we were studying.

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Latin Everyday
9/5/17

I was honestly really surprised when I realized how much of latin is in my everyday life. Such as buildings, words, and even TV shows. So my latin experience comes from these two TV shows that I watch, The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural, both of them involve latin words in them. Usually when they summon something or do a “magical spell” it is usually in latin. I find that really cool because a lot of the times I can actually translate what they are saying, or at least I try to.

Ocean's Caesar

I was recently watching Ocean's Eleven (2001), and early on there is a scene where one of the characters descibes previous Las Vegas robberies. The last one he describes is a man who robs Ceasar's Palace. The police stop the thief as he reaches the parking lot and the narrator says, "He came; he grabbed; they conquered."  I thought this was hilarious because it's a adaptation of the famous Caesar quote: Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered). So appropriate since it was Caesar's casino being robbed!
--Dr. Morgan

Latin moment

In World History Mr. Silva said a word and asked if anyone knew what it was. I knew what it was because of my latin learnings. Mr. Silva was very impressed.

En-Latin- Me

I haven't had many experiences with Latin in my life. The best one I can think of is my dad's favorite movie, Gladiator. In my expirence, everyone has a song, movie, book that they can't put on pause (Mine is "Wake me up before you go-go" by Wham!) Every time my dad sees that Gladiator is on T.V he will drop everything so he can watch it. I can't remember the phrase they say in it (Something along the lines of "To those who are about to die we salute you" but in Latin) but, my dad has seen it so many times he knows it (He took Spanish for 4 years).

Welcome

This blog will host our bi-weekly ruminations on the continued influence of the Latin language and Roman culture on our everyday lives and experiences. At least once every other week, students will be asked to write a brief reflection (~1-2 paragraphs) about a way that Latin or Roman culture happened to them outside of the classroom. Did you hear a new English word that has a Latin root? Did you notice the columns or atrium of public building? Did you see a commercial, tv show, or movie that referenced mythology or Roman history? This blog will serve as a repository of all things Classics that exist in the modern world and will demonstrate the extensive range of ways that Roman culture continues. Pictures, videos, and external links are encouraged!!!