Random possibly useful fact

[TheoK]

A Greek guy on Youtube says: "...BUT if you pronounce Y as /u/,PH as /ph/,G as /g/ in front of I and E,the Greek reaction is going to be pretty bad, especially if you're dealing with crazy nationalists."

But that's the way they pronunced it in ancient Greece. Why would they be angry for having a correct accent? 

[TheoK]

Enlightened persons didn't believe in ghosts or the "supernatural" 2000 years ago either. Petronius Arbiter writes about his hero Encolpius being treated by a "witch" against his erection problems. It was obvious that he didn't believe in "witchcraft". Marcus Aurelius didn't believe in witches either, and it seems like he didn't believe in the gods either or at least was very doubtful about their existence.

It's incredible that this fraud, religion, is still going on 

[lutra]

^ Um, forgive them.. for they know not what they do.. or simply know any better.

But ja, prolly needless to say, I agree. 'Line-thinking' monotheism anno 2013? Phffff..

(but.. hey.. )

[TheoK]

In ancient Greek every word beginning with a vowel has an h before it, though you don't write it out. There are one strong and one weak.

Ancient Greek pronunciation is very different from Latin. The only similarity is that only the last three syllables can be stressed. Greek loan words usually have a Latin stress. In ancient Greek you say "^hAristotélēs", for instance.

[TheoK]

There are two ways to say "and" in Latin. The most common is to use the word et. This word can also mean "also". The other way is to add the ending -que to the last word that you want to conjoin with one or more others. The most known example is the official title of the Roman Empire: Senatus Populusque Romanus.

[Jack]

That's a weird image.

[Queen Victoria]

The she-wolf is suckling the twins, Romulus and Remus.  She found them and raised them.  Romulus and Remus quarreled as adults, Remus was killed and Romulus founded Rome.

[TheoK]

Because he was 

[TheoK]

Most geographical names are changed in Latin, because a geographical name in Latin must be adapted to:

1. The Latin spelling and pronunciation.
2. The Latin conjugation system.

The town Skara in Sweden fits into the 1st declension, although its spelling is changed to "Scara".

When you speak about towns and cities in Latin, you don't need prepositions. The conjugation system is enough to express anything related to them.

Example: Skara is a town in Västergötland=Scara oppidum Westrogothiense est

He was born in Skara=Scarae natus est

We are going to Skara=Scaram imus

We are leaving Skara=Scarā imus

[odeon]

With the advent of digital cinema, there is no longer a need for one of Dolby's most used techie products, the Cat 69 (really) 440Hz/pink noise test film.

[Gopher Gary]

When I cum it's Glitter all over your face, baby!

[odeon]

The last revisions of Doby's mag preamps for the MPU1 were updates for the then-new Dolby Digital system. There haven't been any since.

[TheoK]

Given that you have access to cheap potassium chlorate, this is one of the both cheapest and best blue star compositions that you can make without ammonium perchlorate. The well rounded off percentage is actually completely stochiometrical:

Potassium chlorate 60
Copper(II)oxide 10
Parlon 10
Lactose 15
Dextrin 5

What's unusual is that is uses copper(II)oxide with lactose as the organic fuel. Usually you use the more expensive copper oxychloride with lactose. It's also unusual with as little as 10% copper(II)oxide. You rarely use less than 13%. Since copper compounds are expensive, you save money on this.

[Queen Victoria]

Given that you have access to cheap potassium chlorate, this is one of the both cheapest and best blue star compositions that you can make without ammonium perchlorate. The well rounded off percentage is actually completely stochiometrical:

Potassium chlorate 60
Copper(II)oxide 10
Parlon 10
Lactose 15
Dextrin 5

What's unusual is that is uses copper(II)oxide with lactose as the organic fuel. Usually you use the more expensive copper oxychloride with lactose. It's also unusual with as little as 10% copper(II)oxide. You rarely use less than 13%. Since copper compounds are expensive, you save money on this.

This post is the quintessential example of the thread's subject.   

[TheoK]

The German word eins is only used as a counting number, not as a cardinal number overall.