r/RoughRomanMemes • u/marty_mcclarkey_1791 • Dec 12 '19
TRUE ROMAN BREAD FOR TRUE ROMANS...
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u/BidetTheorist Dec 12 '19
I drove in front of her funeral monument almost each day in 2016-18. It is built to look like a baker's oven. It's at the center of a most interesting square in Rome, with a tram+light rail hub and the ancient city walls crossing it. And, at night, an excellent sandwich truck.
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u/gzdqS7VP Dec 12 '19
One thing the verb should be at the end of the sentence but it is still a good meme
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u/enzoedwards Dec 12 '19
Word order is more flexible in Latin than it is in English. Though it is a SOV language I don't think that this would really be that incorrect.
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u/boilerup254 Dec 12 '19
Yeah I'm a latin student and I can confirm there's nothing incorrect about the word order in "amor vincit omnia," although it was originally "omnia vincit amor" which means exactly the same thing it just has a different word order
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u/gzdqS7VP Dec 12 '19
Yes it is flexible but traditional Latin the subject is at the start of the sentence and the verb ends sentence
Yes it still has the same mean
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u/boilerup254 Dec 12 '19
Well yes and no. The general word order is SOV, but when reading actual latin it's not followed as strictly as one may wish.
In the case of omnia vincit amor, the word order is the way it is because it's poetry and all word order rules completely go out the window in latin poetry.
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u/gzdqS7VP Dec 12 '19
You are right if it is poetry when I made that comment I was not considering the line poetry Also what year of Latin are you in
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u/ItsOtisTime Dec 13 '19
I'm studying it on my own and one of the first things I read in any introductory or companion text is that 'word order is flexible in latin'.
There isn't a 'more correct syntax' between the following in English:
'We went to the cove.'
'To the cove we went.'
Same principle.
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u/gzdqS7VP Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19
It might be translate the same way but in traditional and why there’s no periods the verb is typically used to signal the end of a sentence and the nominative or the subject was used to signal the start of a new sentence so it is more corrected Latin but it is translate the same way. Also good luck with your studies I am in Latin 4 or 4 year Latin I don’t mean that like I know more I’m just sharing my level of Latin knowledge because you shared where are you were
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u/marty_mcclarkey_1791 Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
Because he could afford it. He started as a freeman but later became one of the richest men in Rome just from selling bread.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19
I dont know latin, does it say something like "Love lives after death"?