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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   Hah. There's always a chance to tackle Latin and Greek again. The man who tried to translate the nonsensical 'Lorem ipsum' summarised his efforts here: https://antigonejournal.com/2021/06/pitfalls-la
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   It is certainly the most world's read "Latin" - but yes it's in fact a bit of Cicero's philosophy that has been hacked to pieces and stitched together by an unknown typographer in Swinging Sixties London. A strange
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   Lorem ipsum: filler fail, killer tale(antigonejournal.com)

   8 points by AntigoneJournal 5y ago|5 comments
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   A good question. The best, i.e. least likely to be unreliable, sources are: epistles as preserved by papyri; conversations as preserved in ancient drama (especially comedy); phrase-books that survive from ancient school curricula; funerary
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   Thanks for these questions. (1) The cases under rule #2 are a mixture of proclitics and common words (such as the two conjunctions and the adverb ou). Most proclitics (including most prepositions, and most forms of the definite article) in
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   We never found it either - so there's a danger this may be a joke!
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   Good on you: it is perfectly fine Ancient Greek!
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   Many thanks for this. Yes, a fuller article would make mention of 'crasis' - where two successive words are melded into one utterance - which inevitably affected pitch and accentuation. As to breathings, their affect on pitch (as
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   by AntigoneJournal 5y ago

   Thanks for sharing this. Antigone runs open-access articles on anything to do with the Greeks, Romans and what the world has made of them since. We are committed to two things: opening up Classics to as wide an audience as possible, especia