doc benway Posted January 15, 2021 Please join me in extending a warm welcome to @dwai who has volunteered to join the mod team. Thank you for offering your services dwai, I look forward to working with you on the team! 8 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted January 15, 2021 Boa sorte @dwai I hope you enjoy your time. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forestofclarity Posted January 15, 2021 I was just thinking the last few days that @dwai should be a moderator. Good luck! 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ilumairen Posted January 15, 2021 7 minutes ago, dwai said: Thanks friends Welcome to the team dwai, and thanks for volunteering your time. Glad to have you onboard. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted January 15, 2021 Avē Cæsar, moritūrī tē salūtant. 2 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted January 16, 2021 10 hours ago, Taomeow said: Avē Cæsar, moritūrī tē salūtant. that brings back high school memories. As a group of us poorer students would announce before a test- All Hail Mr. Williams We who are about to fail, Salute you! 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted January 16, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, thelerner said: that brings back high school memories. As a group of us poorer students would announce before a test- All Hail Mr. Williams We who are about to fail, Salute you! This brings similar memories. In college I wrote a poem with that line used in it before an exam in Latin. Actually, poetry saved me that day. I was woefully unprepared, and our professor was very intimidating, a perfect match for the course she taught -- she looked like a power drunk Roman legionnaire and dressed it too, at least the sandals were almost exactly the same, and she was merciless. I was supposed to translate a page from Commentāriī dē Bellō Gallicō by Julius Caesar, it was a written exam with a severe time limit and I was stuck on this one sentence which I couldn't make sense of. Since I was running out of time, I wound up asserting, in my rushed desperation, that one of Caesar's great generals, Marc Antony, was eaten at the Capitol. Talk about fake news. In reality the verb that referred to eating in the passive voice meant that a feast celebrating Marc Antony's victory took place at the Capitol. The professor shook her head in stern disapproval but then remembered an earlier assignment, a translation from Catullus which I produced a month before, and said that, despite my ineptitude with verb conjugation, I produced the best translation from Catullus she'd ever read anywhere, and gave me the highest grade anyway. Good old days... Edited January 16, 2021 by Taomeow 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerostao Posted January 16, 2021 Ars poetica. The highest art. @dwai has already been an artful moderator on this forum. Evidenced time and again. Now it is official is all. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted January 16, 2021 20 minutes ago, zerostao said: Ars poetica. The highest art. @dwai has already been an artful moderator on this forum. Evidenced time and again. Now it is official is all. Poetic my ars. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dwai Posted January 16, 2021 20 minutes ago, Apech said: Poetic my ars. That’s what they always say...😇 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted January 16, 2021 52 minutes ago, Apech said: Poetic my ars. Cute your ars too... 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liminal_luke Posted January 16, 2021 (edited) ... Edited January 16, 2021 by liminal_luke Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
