So All the Star Wars Quoting Wasn't for Naught...

[thesummerqueen]

http://www.livescience.com/16541-origina...unded.html

But could they pull an X-wing out of a swamp?

[Epimethean]

When I introduce Latin to students, I usually use Yoda to show how early Indo-European languages work. The general rule of thumb for golden age Latin word order is SIDAV: Subject, Indirect Object, Direct Object, Adverb, Verb. Mind you, the verb contains the subject when it is not nominally expressed.

Cool stuff, summer.

[thesummerqueen]

My Latin teacher wasn't so enlightened.

[Epimethean]

The power of the SIDAV he did not have.

[thesummerqueen]

She - and she cared more for the fact that I could read Hebrew than anything else.

No Star Wars quoting for us - I spent it sitting next to a hot Latino who quoted Princess Bride at me instead.

[Epimethean]

Ut velis.

[downbeatplumb]

She - and she cared more for the fact that I could read Hebrew than anything else.

No Star Wars quoting for us - I spent it sitting next to a hot Latino who quoted Princess Bride at me instead.

I dont think it means what you think it means

I am the dread pirate roberts......

[thesummerqueen]

Among other things. He's a sweet boy. Lives in Cali now, still friends. Married a beautiful blonde. I was terribly fond of him at school. We were penpals for the longest time after he graduated - real handwritten letters while he was at the Naval academy.

I don't have a lot of luck with lovers, but I do have some pretty bang-up friends. They keep me going. He made that entire sham of a class bearable.