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Thanks! I'll take that as food for thought. Also, the Latin plural of "programma" should probably be "programmata" (which also works for agreeing with the neut
by schoen 7y ago
Thanks! I'll take that as food for thought.
Also, the Latin plural of "programma" should probably be "programmata" (which also works for agreeing with the neuter plurals "omnia" and "purgamenta", whereas "programmae" would be a feminine plural which wouldn't agree with the neuter adjectives). Most often Latin uses the original Greek plurals for Greek loanwords.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B3%CF%8...
- tptacek 7y agoI posted the sticker I made with this on it and Ben Nagy took me to task for my 10th grade Latin skill, and I felt like I held up okay! I remember there being a reason programmae worked, but I forget what it was; if I know me, I'll spend 20 minutes later today scouring Twitter for the conversation and then posting a 9-paragraph comment about it here. :)
- schoen 7y agoEven if programmae is plausible, it would have to be "omnes" rather than "omnia" to agree with the feminine plural. (In retrospect I agree that it's going to "purgamenta" either way because that's a noun, not an adjective.)