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Champion Lance

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Yes, I'm new. This isn't terribly surprising. What is surprising is that I've registered for a Pokemon forum, but I can't help it: one listen of the remixed Kanto Trainer battle theme in HG has revived excitement that I'd thought was long buried.

As you may surmise from my username, I like dragon Pokemon and Lance is my favorite NPC. My favorite Pokemon is Dragonair, my favorite Pokemon game is the original Red, but my favorite player character is Leaf from FR/LG.

Aside from Pokemon, I enjoy discussing politics, fine literature, high culture, and that sort of thing.

I'm not sure what else to put into an intro post other than to marvel at the size of this place, and wonder just what I've gotten myself into.
 
Oh... another person with that avatar... Okay then...

Um, hi. Welcome. I'm just... yeah, I'm just going that way to get you all name tags.
 
Unfortunate. Had I the talent, I'd make something of my own, but alas.

I wonder if the back sprite would be more unique?

edit: et voila!
 
Ha, just joking, but honestly, that looks rather cool.
 
Yeah--I think I like this version better, to be honest.

Dr_Robotnik said:
A fellow Latin scholar! Welcome to the forums
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Ille qui loquatur latinam laetus est.

I've been learning Attic lately, so my composition skills are not nearly as good as they should be: it took me far too long to remember the present subjunctive of loquor.

In other news, I seem to have some problem doing quick replies and edits: I have go "go advanced" or I get a curious message about being unauthorized. What's going on? I *am* properly logged in.
 
Thank you!

You're from New Zealand? I'll be visiting your country in just over a week.
 
Champion Lance said:
Yeah--I think I like this version better, to be honest.



Ille qui loquatur latinam laetus est.

I've been learning Attic lately, so my composition skills are not nearly as good as they should be: it took me far too long to remember the present subjunctive of loquor.

In other news, I seem to have some problem doing quick replies and edits: I have go "go advanced" or I get a curious message about being unauthorized. What's going on? I *am* properly logged in.
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Haha yeah in New Zealand you get a wordlist whenever you do a Latin translation, so without it, I don't know whats going on :-|
 
Robotnik: Did you study it as part of grade school or during university? And surely you had to fend for yourself during exams?

We were provided dictionaries to do our work, of course. But I took a course on Latin composition and I like to compose poetry in Latin, so I had to learn how to write without those aides.

Blaah: I shall! Is it warm there right now? I'm hoping to get some relief from this incessant cold weather.
 
It should be okay. It's on the southern end of the world so it's probably about the same temperature my home state is in the summer.
 
I study at high school. I've done it for four years but I'm dropping it for my last year. You're doing Latin poetry? We had to translate parts of Virgil's Aeneid Book IV in one of my Latin exams. Do you do it to the metre like he did? That would be intense
 
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Blaah: I shall! Is it warm there right now? I'm hoping to get some relief from this incessant cold weather.
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Well, it kinda depends where you go(the city I live in is really weird with its weather, right now its rather windy and kinda cold, but if you go north, it should be really warm). So your best bet for nice weather would be somewhere north of the North Island. :D
 
Robotnik: Ah, book 4. It's considered one of the most important of the entire work, yet I detest Dido so I find the entire thing tedious. I cheer when she finishes herself off.

Yes, I write it in dactylic hexameter--t'wouldn't be an epic without it. Keeping it in meter is by far the most difficult part of the whole affair, because finding the right words and forms is tough enough without having a good half your words unsuitable because they contain internal cretics (long short long).

Blaah: Um, well I'll be visiting Wellington and Auckland. I'm ashamed that I have yet to do my homework yet and figure out where they're located.
 
Wellington is on the southern tip of the northern island.

Auckland is on the norther side of the same island
 
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Blaah: Um, well I'll be visiting Wellington and Auckland. I'm ashamed that I have yet to do my homework yet and figure out where they're located.
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Auckland will be warm, probably really warm. As for Wellington, where I live(Infamously known as "Windy Wellington"), you never know with the weather. It could be warm, but the weather could quickly change and it could become horrible.
 
Wow you're writing an epic? You've got my respect. I struggle with word stress and Ictus, so I can't even comprehend how you would do that.

Wellington is the capital and is on the bottom of the North Island, Auckland is the largest city population-wise and is near the top of the North Island.
 
Blaah: Windy Wellington? Well, as long as it's wind it won't be too terrible. I'm used to winds of about 60mph or so.

If it gets cold or stormy, though, that might be problematic. I don't think I've packed anything but summer clothing.

Robotnik: Well, I only have about 25 verses or so. Those took me forever, and the amount of work I spent on composing and polishing those lines alone allowed me to submit it for my honors thesis. It goes to show how long it would take to compose a single book of the thing, much less a full scale epic.

But it is very satisfying, once you get over the mechnical and metrical problems. You get to engage the entire Greco-Roman corpus, not just in terms of scenes, but even in poetic figures and word order. I probably spend more time reading other works (so far I've alluded most to Ovid, Heliodorus, and Statius as far as turns of phrase, and Virgil in general style) then I do writing.

It's a hobby and I almost never have time for it, but it's the kind of thing I could be proud of when I reach retirement age.

EDIT: Here's my favorite line (and then some)--it's a golden line, which was very difficult to achieve:

Gēntēm rēctōrēs || cōgnōscēnt Jūlĭăm lōngō
lātōquē prōtēctōrem ōrbīs.

You can see the NNVAA word order there--severe hyperbaton and interlocking word order.
 
Hell yeah you'd be proud of it. iirc Virgil only managed a few lines a day when writing his Aeneid, and even then after years of working on it, he wasn't happy with it and requested it to be destroyed on his death bed. If you've managed 25 verses thats awesome.
 
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