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?