I don't mind the fellow at all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 7 May 2011, 21:32, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

he was a fucking emo.
and pussy whipped, to boot.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 7 May 2011, 21:32, Reply)

I am struggling to argue with this assessment.
Juvenal is my niggah.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 7 May 2011, 21:33, Reply)

I love him.
I wrote a dedication in Crow's birthday present last year, which was poem 112.

It consisted of:
You're a slut, [Crow*], and not many men would be seen to hang around with you.
You're a slut, [Crow], and a massive gay.

*obviously not Crow. Changed from "Naso" to "Corve"


He's so delightfully bitchy, and poem 7 is genuinely beautiful.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 7 May 2011, 21:39, Reply)

To be fair, as a linguist, I did enjoy latin
but for some reason, we were never taught cases. So as GCSE students translating Anaeid book 6, we couldn't figure out what order to put the words in.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 7 May 2011, 21:44, Reply)

Not taught cases?!
First thing we did, really. I can still rattle off servus puella vox dies and manus...

Though the latter two are a bit ropey.
I can't believe that. How the hell did you manage?!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 7 May 2011, 21:45, Reply)

There were six of us in the class
and the teacher basically went through each passage with us, asking us for vocab as we went. We basically had to know the root word, and he put them in the right order for us.

Comes from having no text books, I suppose. Not like in German and French.

When it came to the exams, we already knew what the passages were, to a certain extent, and could more or less guess the rest.

We also had a latin reading contest, sponsored byu teh classical association, and I was absolute champion five years running. yay me.

primus, ibi ante omnes, magna comitanta caterva, laocon, ab ardens summa decurrit, criens 'o miseri' and i can't remember teh rest.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 7 May 2011, 21:52, Reply)

I did the latin reading competition!
And the Greek. This wasn't in "the North", was it?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 7 May 2011, 21:57, Reply)

Lincolnshire
but we didn't do 'greek'.

pffft.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sat 7 May 2011, 22:00, Reply)

There seem to be a few dotted around the country.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 7 May 2011, 22:03, Reply)