Ian
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Ian
@rioghbhardain
I like Classics and have anxiety
Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@memomotorsports Depende a qué se refieran: étnicamente/nacionalidad. En general, supongo que existen grados de mexicaneidad: el que crece y vive más tiempo en México es más mexicano, por obvias razones, pero alguien que nace en China de padres mexicanos no deja de ser mexicano (étnicamente ).
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Its "El Mexicano nace donde le de la gana" until it comes to those who were born to parents from Mexico and are brown.
ᴅ³³ ¹¹@bunnysoo___
Exacto! Ninguna de ellas lo es. Eso les venimos diciendo los latinos desde hace años
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@rioghbhardain Creo que hacía muchísimo tiempo que no disfrutaba tanto de classics twitter como en estos últimos días. Empiezo a pensar que el tipo lleva el casco por necesidad, para que no le colapse la cabeza.
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@uatesRerum @theo_nash I can see you haven’t been here long enough and therefore have missed quite a bit.
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@theo_nash Maybe in your made up phantasy world. I've never seen a liberal™ arguing for true critical competence in the languages. They don't practice it themselves, nor do they want to teach it, nor do they see any value in it. For they know it would destroy their contemporary religion.
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@theo_nash People seem to forget things rather quickly 😅 Nuance is dead. The moment you refuse to entertain any wild alt-right take, people instantly paint you as spokesperson for the woke intelligentsia. (And the other way around).
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Claudia Sheinbaum no actúa como presidenta de México, actúa como presidenta de Morena.
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@LidisInTheWind Cualquier dialecto del inglés tiene bastantes más fonemas que el dialecto promedio del español, duh.
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Si los ingleses tuvieran un idioma solo un poquito poco más rico, eso no pasaría.
María del Pilar Montes de Oca Sicilia@palabrafilica
Los españoles hablan tan mal el inglés que cuando piden una cerveza, no saben si les van a traer un pájaro, una barba, un oso o una birria.
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The back cover in the next reprint should include: ‘the absolute worst translation of πολύτροπος in the entire history of classical scholarship according to some complicated cunt on Twitter/now X’
No Context Brits@NoContextBrits
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@dominbydigdug @dlblforever Yeah, learnt the hard way. Time for an update, I guess 😜
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@rioghbhardain @dlblforever For one thing, never stand thick books like this upright, always lay flat. That really helps the spine.
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As a first-year Classics student, I soon realised the LSJ was not just a dictionary, but an initiation into the intimidating scale of classical scholarship.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@BretDevereaux
It has always struck me as a bit bizarre, the person attached enough to Homer to critique individual words in a translation, but not attached enough to learn Greek or how the LSJ works. But for the sake of some public education, let's talk about πολύτροπον. 1/
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@dominbydigdug @dlblforever I swear it’s just crap. I wish I’d bought the 2 vol. edition. It would’ve been easier to handle and probably less prone to falling apart, but it was unaffordable back then.
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@rioghbhardain @dlblforever People always say this, do you throw it around? Mine is still perfect.
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@dominbydigdug @dlblforever Hopefully they improve the quality of the binding too. Mine started to fall apart after a couple of years.
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@rioghbhardain @dlblforever My spies tell me a 2nd edition of Montanari will appear next year, many corrections and new words.
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@dlblforever @dominbydigdug Don’t rely so much on them, maybe? LSJ carries a lot of baggage from 19th-century German lexica. The CGL tries to clean some of that up with a more modern, usage-based approach, but it’s not a replacement, but more of a corrective update. Montanari is still really solid.
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@dominbydigdug @rioghbhardain I’ve never heard an alternative! Blame my professors!
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@dominbydigdug I tend to use Montanari over the LSJ, the CGL for more straight-forward reading and rely on commentaries for the trickier passages. But, yeah.
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@rioghbhardain LSJ is outdated and full of mistakes.
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