Having enjoyed my Christmas pudding and mince pies, liberally smothered in Advocaat, I still have a considerable amount left in the bottle, so today I decided to pour some over my cherry crumble and custard; now have a nice warm glow inside.
The bottle says use within 6 months so methinks fortified custard on variuos fruits and puddings two or three times a week for a few weeks should see to that.
Haec
Hoc
I've promised myself tomorrow night the Southern Comfort gets a pasting which normally means the air guitar makes an appearance at some point :-[ :laugh3:
Hunc
Uh-oh. I can see a few Latin scholars coming out of the woodwork! ;D
Quote from: chrism on December 27, 2018, 08:26:21 PM
Hoc
Another classics scholar !
Nick
(Latin O level 1967 - failed!)
yes, but don,t put too much advocat on or the result [genitively speaking] could huius, huius, huius!
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 27, 2018, 09:45:01 PM
I've promised myself tomorrow night the Southern Comfort gets a pasting which normally means the air guitar makes an appearance at some point :-[ :laugh3:
And the problem with that, subject to headphones/volume/proximity of neighbours is Pedicabo omnia
Steady on chaps - thought this was a family forum!
Quote from: Railwaygun on December 28, 2018, 10:03:23 AM
Quote from: chrism on December 27, 2018, 08:26:21 PM
Hoc
Another classics scholar !
Nick
(Latin O level 1967 - failed!)
1967 Latin exam must have been hard. I failed mine then.
If memory serves correctly, I underwent three years of Latin at school, a comprehensive which was still clinging onto delusions of a more genteel grammar school/11+ past in the early 1980s, anyway a while back I came across an old textbook I'd somehow kept from that time (part of a series of thin volumes in orange covers, if anyone remembers them), anyway my brain has obviously better things to do with any mental storage space occupied by that deceased language and even after looking at the book I could remember literally nothing from it.
Quod erat demonstrandum?
(Grade C in 1980 - complete fluke!)
Semper in excreta.
et tu, caudex?
(that is the one phrase I think I remember, though I might have got it wrong and it's supposed to be in the ablative provocative case or something - tragically I never made it to Latinia, so never had a chance to use all those useful phrases)
Alea iacta est..
Delenda Carthago
Haec ornamenta mea
Hic sunt leones...
:D
Nil illegitimati carborundum
Caesar sic in omnibus or Caesar adsum iam forte.
Whichever - in sedimenta est
Nobby the full rhyme if I remember was:
Caesar adsum iam forte
Brutus adorat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at
Quote from: cycletrak9 on December 29, 2018, 08:19:08 PM
Nobby the full rhyme if I remember was:
Caesar adsum iam forte
Brutus adorat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at
That's the very one. :thankyousign:
I had a second hand text book at school and some wag had written inside the front cover:-
Latin is a language
As dead as dead can be
It killed off all the Romans
And now it's killing me
Quote from: railsquid on December 29, 2018, 11:32:11 AM
If memory serves correctly, I underwent three years of Latin at school, a comprehensive which was still clinging onto delusions of a more genteel grammar school/11+ past in the early 1980s, anyway a while back I came across an old textbook I'd somehow kept from that time (part of a series of thin volumes in orange covers, if anyone remembers them), anyway my brain has obviously better things to do with any mental storage space occupied by that deceased language and even after looking at the book I could remember literally nothing from it.
I passed 'O'-level Latin in 1983. My eldest son passed it earlier this year. They are still using the same text-books, the first ones with Caecilius and his family and the later ones with Salvius in Britain and saving King Cogidubnus.
I have forgotten how to construct Latin sentences, but found that I was still pretty good at understanding the sentences in his text-books.
Quote from: stevewalker on December 29, 2018, 09:10:46 PM
Quote from: railsquid on December 29, 2018, 11:32:11 AM
If memory serves correctly, I underwent three years of Latin at school, a comprehensive which was still clinging onto delusions of a more genteel grammar school/11+ past in the early 1980s, anyway a while back I came across an old textbook I'd somehow kept from that time (part of a series of thin volumes in orange covers, if anyone remembers them), anyway my brain has obviously better things to do with any mental storage space occupied by that deceased language and even after looking at the book I could remember literally nothing from it.
I passed 'O'-level Latin in 1983. My eldest son passed it earlier this year. They are still using the same text-books, the first ones with Caecilius and his family and the later ones with Salvius in Britain and saving King Cogidubnus.
I have forgotten how to construct Latin sentences, but found that I was still pretty good at understanding the sentences in his text-books.
"Caecilius" rings a bell. There was a slave as well, I think? I was just struck by how I drew a complete and utter blank when looking at the text book. I think I was supposed to do it to O-level (or GCSE as I hit the crossover) but wiggled out of it (I do, among others, have a GCSE in Chinese, which has proven much more useful ;) ).
Back in my grammar school in 1960s North East England (yes, we did have grammar schools up there), the saying went:
If the school ever floods, jump on on a Latin book, 'cos that's dry :D