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.