*comes back from mildly ranty, but still educational comment*

[conuly]

You know what?

I think my writing is improving.

See, I was here. I pop in for a bit to give my comment that "sign languages don't relate to spoken languages" comment (along with a tangent on the difference between creole, the linguistic term and Creole, the people (and not even mentioning the various languages known as Creole or Kriyol, or whatnot), stopped by with a comment about HI! (followed by a comment that's clearly Me On Nutella and Pretzels. Yummy, but so bad for my mental health. I want to go running up and down the house a hundred million times, but my mom would freak. Every time I get up to walk a bit around here, she asks me "what's wrong". Gah), and then got to this thread. Ignore my first comment, amabo te. Looking back over my second comment, I can only say the following: "Wow, that's not half-bad. Huh."

Considering that I usually don't think that much of my writing, that's impressive.

And I've been thinking "Gee, that's not too shoddy" more and more often about things I type up. Either I'm getting arrogant, or my writing is actually improving.

I'm quite happy.

Comments

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

I interrupt your feelings of awesomosity to tell you that the term 'Sinisters' is the best term for Left-handed people evers.

SINISTERS.

also: my Latin escapes me. Amabo te is something like forgive me or excuse me, right? te is the you and the amabo is making my brain cry. I always sucked at other langauages.

[conuly]

Hell. Yeah.

And no, it's "I will love you", which metaphorically means "please".

See...

The word "love" is amo, amare, amavi, amatus.

The root is ama-

The future tense is marked with the -b-, and the first person singular is -o, so first person singular future (I will love) is amabo.

Te does mean you, but remember, you hardly ever have to state the nominative pronoun in Latin, it's generally only done for reasons of emphasis (or in the third person, I suppose). The second person singular declines as follows:

Tu
Tui
Tibi
Te
Te

So te is clearly not the subject of the verb "amabo" (I mean, it wasn't anyway, but...) but it has to be the object, which makes it the accusative - look how it fits into our neat little list.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

...

You have the awesomosity of someone really, really awesome plus a little bit more because you make this make sense.

*heart. Of platonic (which really means the ideal love, if I remember my English teacher's ramblings) love.*

[conuly]

Well, it's ideal in this case, definitely :)

[conuly]

Note that my explanation leaves some stuff out, and I wouldn't use this explanation if I thought you wanted to study Latin seriously and would get confused. I mean, the b also shows up in the imperfect (amabam, amabas, amabat....), for example.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

I interrupt your feelings of awesomosity to tell you that the term 'Sinisters' is the best term for Left-handed people evers.

SINISTERS.

also: my Latin escapes me. Amabo te is something like forgive me or excuse me, right? te is the you and the amabo is making my brain cry. I always sucked at other langauages.

[conuly]

Hell. Yeah.

And no, it's "I will love you", which metaphorically means "please".

See...

The word "love" is amo, amare, amavi, amatus.

The root is ama-

The future tense is marked with the -b-, and the first person singular is -o, so first person singular future (I will love) is amabo.

Te does mean you, but remember, you hardly ever have to state the nominative pronoun in Latin, it's generally only done for reasons of emphasis (or in the third person, I suppose). The second person singular declines as follows:

Tu
Tui
Tibi
Te
Te

So te is clearly not the subject of the verb "amabo" (I mean, it wasn't anyway, but...) but it has to be the object, which makes it the accusative - look how it fits into our neat little list.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

...

You have the awesomosity of someone really, really awesome plus a little bit more because you make this make sense.

*heart. Of platonic (which really means the ideal love, if I remember my English teacher's ramblings) love.*

[conuly]

Well, it's ideal in this case, definitely :)

[conuly]

Note that my explanation leaves some stuff out, and I wouldn't use this explanation if I thought you wanted to study Latin seriously and would get confused. I mean, the b also shows up in the imperfect (amabam, amabas, amabat....), for example.