immo *Quid* in secunda spatione est!
Tutoring is not a good time to completely mix up one's languages. Or: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ricardienne taught her student the Latin word for "intoxication" because she was somehow convinced that she knew it was the word for "toad." (Stupid French...)
However I can now conclude the following about Things That Do Not Interest And Do Interest Middle School Boys:
Things Not of Interest to Middle School Boys (no snickering: these things would totally have interested my brother when he was in eighth grade!):
-The loss of traditional senatorial freedom under the principate.
-Writers, patronage and tyranny.
-Really clever subversion of the stupid sentences in the book.
-Julius Caesar with zombies (I don't know why he didn't like that one).
Things of Interest to Middle School Boys:
-Sentences with words that sound vaguely dirty in English.
Okay, so I should have known that already.
For reasons unknown to me, I've been translating "Who's on First" into Latin -- it works quite well, if I do say so myself. Most of the declarative/indirect question issues go away if you make it colloquial enough that the verb drops, and then the joke works just as well in any language. In the process, I came across a "Shakespearean" version, which is also pretty awesome and hilarious.
ricardienne taught her student the Latin word for "intoxication" because she was somehow convinced that she knew it was the word for "toad." (Stupid French...)However I can now conclude the following about Things That Do Not Interest And Do Interest Middle School Boys:
Things Not of Interest to Middle School Boys (no snickering: these things would totally have interested my brother when he was in eighth grade!):
-The loss of traditional senatorial freedom under the principate.
-Writers, patronage and tyranny.
-Really clever subversion of the stupid sentences in the book.
-Julius Caesar with zombies (I don't know why he didn't like that one).
Things of Interest to Middle School Boys:
-Sentences with words that sound vaguely dirty in English.
Okay, so I should have known that already.
For reasons unknown to me, I've been translating "Who's on First" into Latin -- it works quite well, if I do say so myself. Most of the declarative/indirect question issues go away if you make it colloquial enough that the verb drops, and then the joke works just as well in any language. In the process, I came across a "Shakespearean" version, which is also pretty awesome and hilarious.