YES to the wedding thread ( i think my forum other half is angry at me at not mentioning her in teh Leni 12” thread AND putting Udall before - i’m sorry dahling ) and i like cliquey - i’m not enough cliques to be bored of it!
yes in capital letters. you sound too enthusiastic dear.
i’ll have to think about it though!! haha!! make you sweat!
I did latin too!! I got a B though. :( I wanted an A. But still, perfect couple!! haha!!
okay, for those of you concerned (mainly sam, anna and max) and anyone interested i found the link back to that very amusing evening. I found it funny anyway. I just re-read it and it brought back so many memories…
As for Rae, I dont think I’ve really seen her much since then, well I think her post count then was 4 and i’ve not seen her over here so maybe we did scare her off.
I thought I typed a reply, but I seemed to lose it.....
I was waffling about samsams brainiac thread....Is the name Nemo (seem to remember that meaning nobody / nothing, but don’t know if that’s in Greek)? I haven’t read The Odyssey, but I have seen the 80’s Japanese cartoon Ulysses 31, so I’ve got the gist of it.
There are lots of these ancient Greek tales available at classics.mit.edu - it crashed years ago, and they never got round to fixing it, but it is still there, and handy.
Thinking of Nemo, I love 20,000 leagues under the sea. James Mason is amazing in that.
nemo, nobody, and it’s latin. i don’t do latin anymore. ( so your name is the latin equivalent of what odysseus called himself. congratulations!)
Okay, so I’ll mine your expertise further.....
What would the Greek for GoodBooks’ers be? We have Bibliophile, for book lovers, but what is the Greek for good? I think the latin is bonus but bonusbibliophiles doesn’t flow very nicely.
"GOOD” is a fairly complicated word in ancient greek. in fact i’m sure people have written a book on the word “good” (haha i’m just too witty) and the way it breaks down and declines.
the complication lies in the comparative and superlative forms i think, but since we’re not dealing with BetterBooks or BestBooks, it’s not hard.
in essence the transliterated form is AGATHOS. since the word biblophile is already from the greek (biblos = book, filo = i like/love) i think that gives us agathasbiblophile. but i’m sure that could be contracted or fiddled with to get a better sounding english term.
now im confused because Greek isn’t actually the same as Latin so do you do Greek now or something? or are you just scarily clever and revise Greek in your own time like a friend of mine did a couple of years ago whilst studying Latin GCSE at the same time.
nah i dropped latin for 6th form (teh last 4 ears beein boring and too easy) and continued with my greek only which is much more interesting and challenging. it’s quite amusing cos there’s not relaly anyone in the world who ACTUALLY gets ancient greek, it’s just a series of insanely complicated rules and exeptions, and statgies made up by people in an attempt to look scholarly when in realitiy all their doign is MAKING UP teh rules ot fit with the mish mash which they face. it’s just so arbitary it’s funny.
) and i like cliquey - i’m not enough cliques to be bored of it!
