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...oh, hey, I meant to post this on Wednesday. So. Uh. I guess I will just keep on translating, and put the whole thing up at once!
Right, then.
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Aaaaaand back to Latin. Today’s class was interesting! I misidentified a basic deponent verb (which, in my defense, was one of many vocab words not listed in my ginormous dictionary), and put relative clauses where they didn’t need to exist, and ended up getting the meaning of a sentence entirely backwards, but otherwise did pretty well on the one sentence of translation I did in the class. And the prof was very kind about things, and some grad students made some errors, so I don’t feel terrible about it.
More to the point, I discovered that 1) that terrifying spread of Cato that I thought was due today was, in fact, due on Friday--it was our assignment for the week--and we didn’t even get through all of what I had prepared for class. Mind, we’ve been warned that we won’t be covering everything in class, and that we’ll be speeding up as we go along, but still. Quite a relief. Also, 2) my enormous dictionary is very much designed for Cicero And His Peers And Imitators, and is therefore just about the worst possible enormous dictionary I could be using for this class... but the little free Latin dictionary app on my phone, which pulls from an OOC dictionary of way back when, actually has all the vocabulary and references I need.
So between those two things, I expect that this course will become--if certainly not easy--a bit less terrifying and soul-crushing. Which is nice! I want a challenge, not a brutalization of all my tiny linguistic hopes and dreams. (That’s what grad school is for.)
( Finally we are back in proper order. To talk about farms. )
Right, then.
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Aaaaaand back to Latin. Today’s class was interesting! I misidentified a basic deponent verb (which, in my defense, was one of many vocab words not listed in my ginormous dictionary), and put relative clauses where they didn’t need to exist, and ended up getting the meaning of a sentence entirely backwards, but otherwise did pretty well on the one sentence of translation I did in the class. And the prof was very kind about things, and some grad students made some errors, so I don’t feel terrible about it.
More to the point, I discovered that 1) that terrifying spread of Cato that I thought was due today was, in fact, due on Friday--it was our assignment for the week--and we didn’t even get through all of what I had prepared for class. Mind, we’ve been warned that we won’t be covering everything in class, and that we’ll be speeding up as we go along, but still. Quite a relief. Also, 2) my enormous dictionary is very much designed for Cicero And His Peers And Imitators, and is therefore just about the worst possible enormous dictionary I could be using for this class... but the little free Latin dictionary app on my phone, which pulls from an OOC dictionary of way back when, actually has all the vocabulary and references I need.
So between those two things, I expect that this course will become--if certainly not easy--a bit less terrifying and soul-crushing. Which is nice! I want a challenge, not a brutalization of all my tiny linguistic hopes and dreams. (That’s what grad school is for.)
( Finally we are back in proper order. To talk about farms. )