tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post7569996286554611759..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: Darnay the Younger, Cato the ElderADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-54624572490298264202013-03-12T07:09:24.951-04:002013-03-12T07:09:24.951-04:00Thanks for that!Thanks for that!ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-73091221453497466662013-03-11T11:11:57.444-04:002013-03-11T11:11:57.444-04:00"Excurret" in the future.
We could thin..."Excurret" in the future.<br /><br />We could think of it as a future-less-vivid conditional, like:<br />"if nothing should change, the world will run out of oil" and use the subjunctive "excurrat", so it is right after all.<br /><br /><br />At my father's wake, I think I corrected the Latin of the priest who was to officiate at my father's funeral.<br /><br />Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-27634024744430367442013-03-09T16:39:08.140-05:002013-03-09T16:39:08.140-05:00Have not, Montag, but sounds like fun.
And, by th...Have not, Montag, but sounds like fun.<br /><br />And, by the way, what would my motto be in Montag's Latin????ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-2243053166017564762013-03-09T10:16:36.777-05:002013-03-09T10:16:36.777-05:00Cato the Elder and Fossil fuels... everything is a...Cato the Elder and Fossil fuels... everything is ancient. I do like the old reactionary, Cato.<br />For all the bloodthirstiness of his endless reminder that Carthage must be destroyed, his war had a goal.<br /><br />At the risk of reinforcing my status as the most tedious person alive, it looks like Google Latin has the verb in the subjunctive rather than the future, and misses the sense of urgent and prophetic doom.<br /><br />Since you are an author, and have written in the Science Fiction genre, have you ever read Stapldon's "Last and First Men"? Particularly the part towards the beginning where the First Men (us) in their latter days expend fuel like maniacs in useless and symbolic aerial displays?<br /><br /> Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com