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I Like Latin

Ego Laeta Est

By: Kerrifica
Written on February 21st, 2009

I took 3 semesters of Latin in college , and I would have continued learning it, but I dropped out and moved home. I severely miss it. I feel like I've pretty much forgotten all of it. I wish more schools offered Latin. It's so much fun, and so interesting. My favorite sentence learned was stercus fit. **** happens. :D

By: Kerrifica
Age: 22-25 , Female
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  • Genrik
    Genrik

    Ms, so far so good. "Laeta sum" would have been sufficient, without "Ego". In this case, the form "sum" contains the subject of the short sentence.

    Forming the sentence with "ego"might mean that the author takes it for a noun. Today, in modern languages, this is possible, speaking of the ego, the egoes, the alter ego - mainly in psychology. We will never be able to ask a native speaker of Latin whether "ego" as a noun would have been male or female. Only in the latter it might have been possible to put it this way:

    "Ego (mea) laeta est"...

    Phew!

    Kind regards, Genrik

    Feb 22, 2009
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  • Kerrifica
    Kerrifica

    If they offer it in college then I say keep studying it! I'm so bummed I forgot almost all of it. The only thing I can really read is my Oxford Latin Course Part I Book about Quintus Horatius Flaccus that we read my 1st semester. I keep meaning to put all my translations online, but I never seem to find the time.

    Feb 22, 2009
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  • Genrik
    Genrik

    Pity that MsIndividual can't be contacted or doesn't want to be. Otherwise, it might be possible to talk about doing latin...

    Feb 21, 2009
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