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Re: Funnies
« Reply #615 on: 2014-02-19, 02:40:28 »
Hey thanks! I had no idea haha. I try hard not to use translate. Wow I really appreciate it! If you ever have german question come to me. I know who im coming to when I put in latin "my sword my shield" "my shield my sword" on my sword and shield lol. Well, i am going to change it immediately. Thanks again.

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Re: Funnies
« Reply #616 on: 2014-02-19, 02:59:29 »
"Meus gladius, meus scutum" "Meus scutum, meus gladius"
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #617 on: 2014-02-19, 03:50:54 »
Awesome! Many thanks.  ;D
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #618 on: 2014-02-19, 04:11:06 »
Latin and German: the two languages I wish I understood more than I do. I can pick out a handful of words and phrases, but nothing useful. I think I'd have a hard time learning another language if it wasn't something I used often.
Per pale azure and argent, an eagle displayed per pale argent and sable, armed and langued or.

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Re: Funnies
« Reply #619 on: 2014-02-19, 04:22:09 »
Luckily German shares in many things in common with English. I eventually wish to learn Latin and French, and get to learn more English terms. I don't care about Italian lol.
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #620 on: 2014-02-20, 03:47:51 »
Luckily German shares in many things in common with English. I eventually wish to learn Latin and French, and get to learn more English terms. I don't care about Italian lol.

Italian didn't exist in the Middle Ages
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #621 on: 2014-02-20, 03:51:51 »
I was gonna say...
It literally reads : By the friend, and each other obstacle and by the world heart, it conquers.

If you would like, here's a more accurate translation:
Amici, et virtus, et cor purus omnes impedimenta vincent.

(I took Latin for 6 years)

I took Latin for 2 years. Pig Latin for a day, and switched to German.
The Latin just didn't click for me German does.
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #622 on: 2014-02-20, 04:01:02 »
Luckily German shares in many things in common with English. I eventually wish to learn Latin and French, and get to learn more English terms. I don't care about Italian lol.

Italian didn't exist in the Middle Ages

Exactly
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #623 on: 2014-02-20, 04:18:53 »
Quid nomen es tibi?

Mihi nomen es Marcus et Cornelia est amicus

It's sad this is a majority of what I remember. Still I can recognize Latin in words.
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #624 on: 2014-02-20, 16:25:49 »
Luckily German shares in many things in common with English. I eventually wish to learn Latin and French, and get to learn more English terms. I don't care about Italian lol.

Italian didn't exist in the Middle Ages

Exactly

I don't know when it was invented/formalized but Italian definitely existed in the medieval period. There are Italian terms for plate armor pieces and I've seen reference to books about armor written in Italian during medieval times.
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #625 on: 2014-02-20, 17:33:28 »
Dante's Divine Comedy was written in a Tuscan dialect that served as the foundation of modern italian. That was written in the early 14th century.

And now to get this forum thread back on topic...
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #626 on: 2014-02-20, 17:47:06 »
How to guarantee rust will happen...
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #627 on: 2014-02-20, 20:23:01 »
I love that episode Rog myth busters.
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #628 on: 2014-02-20, 20:37:00 »
Dante's Divine Comedy was written in a Tuscan dialect that served as the foundation of modern italian. That was written in the early 14th century.

And now to get this forum thread back on topic...


Oh neat, and right around the time of plate armor, which is all I knew it from. Didn't know when or how it started. Fun fact, thanks. :)

And yes, on topic:
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Re: Funnies
« Reply #629 on: 2014-02-21, 14:39:39 »
Luckily German shares in many things in common with English. I eventually wish to learn Latin and French, and get to learn more English terms. I don't care about Italian lol.

Italian didn't exist in the Middle Ages

Exactly

Of course it did; do you think the people in that region did not speak at all?  ;)

It wasn't referred to as 'Italian' because there was no 'Italy' as we know it now; they were 'city-states' such as Genoa, Pisa, Venezia, etc- but they all spoke the same language with varying dialects depending on which one they hailed from.
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