March 16, 2004

Salve!

This is my new blog for practicing my terribly rusty Latin. Until I figure out a better way, I'm going to represent the Latin long accent (macron) as in ā by capitalizing the vowel, and only use it where it's necessary to distinguish from the short. So puella Nom Sing, puellA Abl Sing, but puellas Acc Pl.

Mostly what I'm going to be doing is notes to myself, textbook exercises, and short translations. If I keep this up, and manage to refresh my memory sufficiently, I might try something more ambitious--or not.

UPDATE: OK, I've tweaked the MT-Textile plugin to accept macros for the macrons. It's still a little bit of a hassle compared to just typing the letter, but it's probably good enough to use in displaying canonical forms, and places where the macron is essential to distinguish the meaning.

Posted by joshua at March 16, 2004 06:47 PM
Comments

Welcome! I'm teaching myself Latin right now. I'll be visiting your blog frequently!

Thanks

Posted by: Alan Phipps at March 19, 2004 10:49 AM

Thanks Joshua!

Couldn't remember my high-school Latin and was trying to teach my own kids (now of same age) what it was all about.
Education in a sorry state in this country (Canada) now, so they don't teach it any more.

Multi gratiamenti!(?)

Neil

Posted by: Neil Jones at October 14, 2004 01:51 PM
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