A Golden-Red Horizon

Oh, and I got a Summa Cum Laude and gold medal on the National Latin Exam.

 

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So what'd you say? (In english)

 

Hope you had fun. (Unless you were a slave)

On that note, what did you have to do or make your slave do?

 

-CF

I neither know the song nor have the time to translate it back, but it looks great. Except for one noticable thing – would the title not be Americanum Crustum? Given that crustum is a neuter noun, the adjective modifying it must be neuter as well.

 

Your name needs to be ablative! Aanchire Rachira Temporis...

 

I've heard about the Latin banquet before, from my mom, interestingly, who had one at her school... But my school doesn't have one. (Not enough people, for one thing.) I have mixed feelings on whether or not I would want to partake in one, but it must be fun to attend...

I neither know the song nor have the time to translate it back, but it looks great. Except for one noticable thing – would the title not be Americanum Crustum? Given that crustum is a neuter noun, the adjective modifying it must be neuter as well.

 

Your name needs to be ablative! Aanchire Rachira Temporis...

 

I've heard about the Latin banquet before, from my mom, interestingly, who had one at her school... But my school doesn't have one. (Not enough people, for one thing.) I have mixed feelings on whether or not I would want to partake in one, but it must be fun to attend...

 

Ah, but it has to be feminine. Not sure what it is? You seem to realize that it's a song. Now what songs do we know by Don McLean? Come on, a google search is all it really takes...

 

Anyway, I wasn't really trying to translate my name, since I only put it there to conceal my real name. If so it would probably be Aanchire Rachira Temporis, as you translated it.

 

Anyway, I'm in Latin III, so I didn't have to be a slave. Unfortunately, not all the slaves showed up, so Lyichir and I had to share ours with the whole Latin III class. But it was fun. Lyi and I made it hard for him. To start, we asked himto address each of us by name whenever we spoke to him! Also, the seat next to Lyi was missing the actual plastic seat, so it was basically a platform on a pipe, and we made him sit there for a while.

 

Cum omni debito respectus,

Aanchir: Rachira Temporis

Um, I've known what song this is all along. But that doesn't mean I'm familiar with the song itself more than a couple lines.

 

Regardless, you still have a feminine adjective with a neuter noun, which just doesn't work. Ever. You could make it crusta, even if then it would more strictly mean "pie crust" than just "pie," but you just can't have an adjective that doesn't agree with its noun. The problem here is that English has no grammatical gender, but Latin does, and the relevant imposition of a gender in English doesn't match with the grammatical gender in Latin...

Um, I've known what song this is all along. But that doesn't mean I'm familiar with the song itself more than a couple lines.

 

Regardless, you still have a feminine adjective with a neuter noun, which just doesn't work. Ever. You could make it crusta, even if then it would more strictly mean "pie crust" than just "pie," but you just can't have an adjective that doesn't agree with its noun. The problem here is that English has no grammatical gender, but Latin does, and the relevant imposition of a gender in English doesn't match with the grammatical gender in Latin...

See, but then it could also mean pastries (plural), and it needs to be singular. Not having the genders match is the only way to keep it from being mistaken for a plural noun.

 

It actually translates properly if you assume that "Americana" is a substantive and "Crustum" is an appositive. I'm not sure if that sort of translation would be legal by Roman standards, but it is necessary to prevent confusion.

 

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