Ad Hominem

During flimmersion I was in a class with Mr. Silva and he brought up the saying Ad hominem, a latin phrase meaning to the person. It got me thinking that Latin, even though it is a dead language, is still present in modern day with sayings and little phrases. Even though most don't realize it, Latin is the root of most languages and still weaves its way into everyday life.

Latin Everyday

Before I begin, I apologize for this being late and I hoope this can be accepted.

Recently, my brother did a project for his Latin class in which he made a poster for a Latin motto. In his case, it was the motto of the state of Kansas which translates to: "To the stars through difficulty." Ad Astra Per Aspera, I knew was Latin based on all four of the words in such a sequence but also from the fact that they clearly resembled the Latin Phonetic Alphabet which I only knew because of the Roman Graffiti Project in which we had to write using the exact formulation of letters like the Romans did of the English alphabet.

Mail now

I was sending my mom a text massage the other day while my mom was at home, and it made me think of how easy it is to send a message while the romans had to either send messages or use the cursus publicus. It could take a week but sometimes it could take a whole year. It is just weird to think that it takes seconds for a message to send but back then it could take a whole year.

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I was In Garland one day, while my mom was driving around doing errands. I was minding my own business when something caught my eye. It was a place called Texas Gladiators Academy. The word gladiator caught my attention as it made remember of our study of gladiators in Latin. It made me think about how gladiators actually rarely died in fights, and that they were treated very well if they survived and won. It made me reflect thinking how cool the Roman culture was back then.

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Yesterday I was watching The Passion of the Christ and noticed that I could actually understand occasional phrases. I found out that this is because the movie is spoken in Latin, Hebrew, and Aramic. I was very impressed with myself for being able to understand at least some of it. It is also interesting to see Latin used outside of class.

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While at home I was watching "Doctor Who", in the episode they went to ancient time right at the end of the Roman empire to see if the Romans were still alive. While searching they were able to find the last few Roman soldiers left. One of which was named Cornelius, which is one of the names of the characters from "Ecce Romani".

Latin Blog Post Austin

This weekend I went to the Dallas Arboretum to volunteer. I had signed up for the children's garden but it was closed to visitors. So I took the training course for the garden. While there We learned about the things to do and about some of the plants which had Latin names. We learned a little about were in the state and country they are found.

AM & PM

I was looking up the correct way to write AM and PM with time and saw what it stand for. AM stands for Ante Meridiem and PM stands for Post meridiem. Both of these are Latin phrases. This was surprising. It is something we all use everyday when writing down times.

The first Punic War

During the week, I watched a youtube video about the first Punic War. I learned about how Carthage and Rome fought over Sicily, and as a result had one of the largest naval battles ever. The total number of marines involved was 290,000 making it larger than most naval battles ever. The romans, despite being outnumbered and out classed, won with their new boarding tactics, rather than the Carthaginian method of ramming. After that victory, the Romans proceeded toward Carthage, but lost the siege battle, which started off the 4 year long conflict between Rome and Carthage.

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Sorry for this being late

I had missed class but I heard something about Latin while I was out of class. In the last game while I was catching the umpire and I was talking in between innings. He said that he had played catcher in high school whenever he had played ball. He asked me what my favorite subject was, of course, I said Latin. He said no way and he said same and started saying something in Latin, that I did not understand. This told me two things. One I need to study for my upcoming Latin test on the 22nd, and Latin is a very interesting Language, and it covers lots of places including a high school baseball game.

Latin Everyday Blog

I was late on this one because I forgot all about it. I'm sorry.

Latin can be seen in nature. Not literally, but when you talk about species and sub-species. Such as "animalia"which comes from the latin word for "animals", theres also "plantae", which is plural for the latin word for "plant". Theres also "Fungi", which is plural for "fungus", which is already latin for stuff like mushrooms and toadstools. I'm going to go on a tangent, but why do mushrooms have their own kingdom. They are basically plants, but the person who gave them this title thought it would make sense, so we're stuck with it.

Memento Mori

When I was watching a video game run through on Youtube for a game called until dawn. One of the titles of the game chapters was Memento Mori. Until Dawn is an interactive drama survival horror adventure game. Until Dawn is designed to be played multiple times, as players cannot see all content with a single playthrough. Each playthrough will last about seven to nine hours in length, and the game mechanics utilize an in-game system called the "Butterfly Effect", in which any choice of action by the player may cause unforeseen consequences later on. Later in that week, I had asked what memento mori meant, and it meant remember to die.

dollar

When I was driving to a party I picked up a dollar bill and on the back of that dollar bill the words novus ordo seclorum were written I don’t know what they mean and I’m too lazy to look them up so I asked my mom and she told me it meant order to the new ages. This was my Latin situation for the week.

Triangles

In geometry, we recently finished two units on congruent triangles and properties of triangles. Also recently, we translated a story by Ovid in Latin. In the story, one of the vocabulary words was acutus, a, um, meaning sharp or pointed. A type of triangle is called an acute triangle, and while the type of triangle is determined by angle measures, triangles themselves are three-sided figures that join at vertices or points. It was interesting to see a connection between geometry and latin class.

Latin Blog Post GRIND

So today in Latin class we were talking about historical dates and we read off some date that was in AD. This reminded me that AD stands for Anno Domini which means in the year of the lord. This was pretty cool because we still use  AD to this day so technically the date today is February 16, 2018, AD and that's pretty cool.

CD Project Red Likes Nero burning Rome

I was playing the Witcher 3 a few days ago and I was captivated by the OST, the original soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLSdl-CdOBo (link to soundtrack). And because it is so captivating I decided to look up what wild and mysterious instruments are used in it. While not used in every track, the lyre is one that came up. This reminded me of the story of Emperor Nero supposedly playing the lyre as he watched Rome burn. Such an interesting narrative I thought, I wonder if they referenced it in their game. So I watch some videos on the game and narratives they drive; most of these narratives are derived from Polish folklore, but there is one in which I don't think has much to do with Poland. There is one narrative where the King of Beggars, the underground "king" of the people who beg on the streets of Novigrad, laughs and makes his bards keep playing as his kingdom burns down. This presents a slight character change, as the King of Beggars was down to earth and a good king, but when the guards don't take the bribe to keep his kingdom safe, he changes and essentially goes insane, just as Nero except Nero was kinda already insane.

Rivers Cuomo reads a girl's diary.

In the song "El Scorcho" by Weezer, Rivers asks a girl to go to a Green Day concert with him. She has never heard of the band Green Day. Rivers thinks this is interesting, so he reads her diary to find out more about her. The word "diary" is derived from the Latin word "diarium" which means "diary" in Latin. The Latin word "diarium" comes from the Latin word "dies" meaning day. This makes sense because a diary or diarium is a book that one writes information about themselves daily. A diarium is a book written daily. The meaning of the word "diary" is entirely derived from Latin. I was surprised to find a Latin reference with so many layers in a Weezer song. I wonder if the band has hidden any more in their other songs.

Latin Every day

As I was signing up for roman gladiators in advisory today for "Flamersion" I thought back to 8th grade when we all had been assigned with presenting a specific type of gladiator. I was assigned with the  bestiarius gladiator, this gladiator only fought with lions, elephants, and wolves.

Latin Valentine Cards

On Valentine's day, Dr. Morgan gave the class a series of cards that had Roman creatures on it. On the side of the creature the had quirky sayings that related to Valentine's day. The one that stood out/noticed the most was the card with Medusa on it.

Latin Everyday 2/16/18

Earlier on in this Trimester, we were writing an essay on The Odyssey, by Homer, in English class. I wrote my essay on the Greek Goddess Athena. In Roman Mythology, she is known as Minerva. She is the goddess of wisdom, war, schools, commerce, and art. In The Odyssey, she is known as a great Tactician and she uses her skills to help Odysseus get back to Ithaka and reclaim the throne. There are multiple other gods in The Odyssey, but Athena/Minerva is the most prevalent deity in the book.

Retorical devices

In my English class, we had an assignment where we had to do an analysis of a poem. We were asked to find the standard poetic devices, rhyme, meter, but we also had to find anaphora. I did have to look up anaphora in the dictionary just in case it had a different meaning in poetry than in rhetoric. It did have the same meaning and I completed the assignment with a 90!

Latin in Geometry

In Geometry it is customary to put QED, or a square (symbolizing QED), at the end of a proof. QED stands for quod erat demonstradum. This roughly means "that which was proven", signaling the end of the proofing. It is cool how Latin makes it into our other classes.

AIGHT

So we were in Latin class one day not sure what day. And we were talking about something like I said I really don't remember but we started talking about the word "AIGHT". Today teenagers use the word "AIGHT" because they are too lazy to actually say "alright". In Latin, it is spelled "ait" and it means "he says what?". So whenever someone says "AIGHT" to you, you respond with, "he says what" and that will stump them.

P.S not sure why I capitalized "AIGHT" I just felt like it needed to be
P.S.S I tried to make this somewhat funny but not sure if that worked because I am exhausted right now :)

Blog Post 2/16

     In English, I had to write a poem about Hector seeking help from goddess Athena in Book 6 of the Iliad.  My memory is refreshed of learning about the Greek gods in Latin in 7th grade.  Athena is the goddess of wisdom.  The gods and goddesses have roman names too.  Zeus is the king of the gods and almost every Greek goddess is his daughter.  It makes since that his Roman name is Jupiter since Jupiter is a big planet.  I also remember Poseidon (Neptune) who is the god of the sea.  I also remember that Artemis and Apollo are twins.  Apollo is the god of the sun/light.  Artemis is the goddess of the moon.

Latin Everyday: Grammar Book

In my English 1 grammar book, I spotted a Latin derivative that was interesting. It was requisite, from the Latin verb requirere which means, "to need".  This was an interesting discovery. I learned also that this word is related to "request" because when you request something, you ask for it. That is from qaereo, which is Latin for "to ask for."

Latin in Pilgrim at Tinker Book

For my AP Lang class we read the book Pilgrim at Tinker by Annie Dillard and the author incorporated latin words into the book such as "fuge, tace, quiesce" and "veni!". The first phrase means "flee, be silent, stay" and the second phrase meaning "come". All of the words are imperative giving commands. She used these words to emphasize her points made earlier and it provided a stylistic flair to her already impressive writing.

Platform Shoes and Latin

Recently I went to an art museum, and they had an exhibit on Fashion as Art Throughout the Ages. I did not expect to find something that had to do with latin, since the exhibit was a.) about fashion and b.)it was a modern art museum. I, however, came across this part of the exhibit! It's hard to read, but I learned that the first platform shoes were made in Rome and were used at the baths to protect people's feet from the sometimes dirty and unsafe floor. I found this very ironic, because whenever I wear platform shoes I always feel like I am going to twist my ankle; platform shoes are hard to wear! Anyway, I really liked learning about this and seeing this, because now whenever I wear platform shoes I'll think of latin, which are two things I never thought would go together. It's cool to see that latin can be applied outside of the classroom, not only in the language and the religion aspect -pretty stuff stuff if you ask me- but even in footwear and fashion!

Latin Everyday

My sisters ACT tutor was at our house yesterday and was going over some sample questions for the essay she has to write for the ACT. The tutor asked my sister if she was an optimist or a pessimist. My sister didn't really know what those two words meant, and I was in the room at the time so I gave my input. I said that optimisic comes from the latin word optime which means best. So optimistic can mean being positive or being your best self. After I said that I felt really smart and proud that I knew my latin roots :) Now when my sister thinks about the word optomistic then she can think of the latin root and think of a derivative that relates to it!!

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Advisory, Latin Everyday

So the other day we were in advisory and we were talking about the pilot program and in the schedule our very first class of the day is Latin. I said that to my advisor and she said "Carpe Diem" which in latin means "seize the day." I just found it interesting that someone that hasn't taken latin knows something in latin. It also shows that the saying is well known. Another thing that had to do with hat saying is, I did a project last year about a saying and that was the saying that I used and my mom, just the other day, hung it up by her desk. I asked he about it and it gives her something to look at and reminds her.

The Olympics

As we all know, the Olympics are going on right now, and so brings up the obvious connection between modern Olympics and the first Olympics that took place in Greece. There are not many similarities game wise because this is the Winter Olympics and I'm pretty sure the Greeks were not too fond of Bobsledding in their time. Some games they did include Javilon throwing, wrestling, and.. Ready Nik... CREW! Thrilling.

Mr. Latin-scomb

During Global Cultures Mr. Lipscomb mentioned the Navitoreom which as we all know means, basically, Swimming Pool. That's it, yeah... woo
Obligatory "We're done" Joke