Lingua Latina sive in alia verba, " the Latin language"

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Batalov

"Les mouches des fruits plaire banane."

Google translate gives "Fruit flies like a banana

I envy those who can do human languages in their heads. As a serious dyslexic, I have a lot of trouble with even simple English.

[Dr Sardonicus]

In my attempt a few posts back to modify a familiar Latin quotation by changing a single word, I had the great advantages of knowing I didn't know Latin grammar, and not trusting Google Translate. I had on occasion tried translating and then reverse-translating and gotten something other than what I'd started with. IIRC this happened when I wanted to change "acumine" (cleverness) to the Latin word for "obscurity." It was the only word that differed from a known-to-be-correct Latin sentence, so I knew the grammatical case of that one word was wrong. I had the grammatical gender, though, so I knew I also had to modify the adjective accordingly.

So, I searched until I found the grammatical case of "acumine" in the quotation. Ablative. OK, what was the ablative case of the Latin noun for "obscurity?" Answer found, I plugged it into the Latin phrase. That fixed it - except for the typo I made when I posted it

[xilman]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Google translate gives "Fruit flies like a banana

I envy those who can do human languages in their heads. As a serious dyslexic, I have a lot of trouble with even simple English.

I would prefer the verb "aimer".

[Nick]

Originally Posted by xilman

Sic biscuitus disintegrat!

Sic frangit crisculum?

[xilman]

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

adnota Illud Cribrum Eratothenis

maximum tum val inquementum tum biguttam tum stadium egresso scribe.
da meo maximo vestibulo perlegementum.

maximum comementum tum novumversum egresso scribe.
meis listis conscribementa II tum maximum da.
dum damentum nexto listis decapitamentum fac
sic
lista sic hoc tum nextum recidementum cis vannementa listis da.
dictum sic deinde cis tum biguttam tum stadium tum cum nextum
comementum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
cis

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by xilman

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

adnota Illud Cribrum Eratothenis
<snip>
comementum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
cis

https://stuff.mit.edu/iap/perl/slides/look2.html

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

https://stuff.mit.edu/iap/perl/slides/look2.html

I took he example directly from the CPAN distribution. The author of the slide doubtless did the same.

There is a general point here, though, in that some programming languages can be expressed in non-English languages. Algol 68 was famous for having Russian compilers. As with the Perl example, translation between different language bindings is a simple matter of textual substitution.

Did you run the code, BTW?

[xilman]

Originally Posted by xilman

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

Et cetera.

This is turning out more fun than I expected. I contacted the author. So far between us we have designed the POD directives and Damian has added a single s/// to remove them from the Latin source. I will attempt to write some Perligata which does the opposite: rip out everything except the documentation and convert back to POD format.

I knew that buying Ainsworth's Dictionary all those years ago would be a good idea eventually. I have the MDCCXXXVI edition.

[pinhodecarlos]

Cambridge student solves Sanskrit grammatical problem that puzzled scholars for centuries

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/i...-b2245596.html