Hello again

[calamus]

Man, this stump is comfortable...

Right. Hello again. I signed up a couple of weeks ago with the user name calamum. A forum member kindly queried me
about my choice of the accusative case, and I realized I had made a error. Calamus would have been the better choice.
(Both mean "pen" in Latin.) I have therefore re-invented myself, as it were, and am no longer using the older name. I
suppose you could call me "cal."

I have so far found the members of this forum generally friendly and helpful. Thank you all.

[Farmboy]

[calamus]

This is the UNCUT version.

[VertOlive]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

[jar]

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Cal

[calamus]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

Ah, but is that pronounced SIS-er-oh or KICK-er-oh?

[countrydirt]

Hi Cal!

[calamus]

Hi Cal!

Hi Col!

[Sammyo]

...
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Cal

Beat me to it

Welcome Cal ... Again

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[Triaed]

Groans galore!
Welcome, Cal

[Triaed]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

Ah, but is that pronounced SIS-er-oh or KICK-er-oh?

So, what's the verdict?!
I've always wondered that

[calamus]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

Ah, but is that pronounced SIS-er-oh or KICK-er-oh?

So, what's the verdict?!
I've always wondered that

You'll have to as VertOlive. She's the resident Latin expert.

[dfo]

[QUOTE=calamus;238988]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

So, what's the verdict?!
I've always wondered that

You'll have to as VertOlive. She's the resident Latin expert.

Kickero it is. It weirded me out when I learned how to pronounce Cicero and Veni, vidi, vici.

And Welcome Calamus

[VertOlive]

Yep, the fellow spoke classical Latin, so a hard "c" sound.

[Wahl]

Welcome again

[calamus]

Hi Cal!

Hi Col!

Ooops. I'd completely forgotten that I said that I supposed that people could call me cal (calamum or calamus), and started wondering why people were calling me Cal! (My uncle's name, by the way). Duh. I thought it was because I'm living in California, so when I saw you were in Colorado, I said "Hi Col!" Meanwhile, you probably thought I was a nut job spouting non sequitars! So what I meant to say was, "Hi countrydirt!"

[calamus]

Welcome again

Thank you kindly!

[calamus]

[QUOTE=dfo;239035]

Welcome! Cicero can now stop rolling in his grave.

So, what's the verdict?!
I've always wondered that

You'll have to as VertOlive. She's the resident Latin expert.

Kickero it is. It weirded me out when I learned how to pronounce Cicero and Veni, vidi, vici.

And Welcome Calamus

Thank you very much.

I've been told that when people who've studied Latin enter a seminary to study to become priests, they discover they have to completely relearn Latin. Apparently ecclesiastical Latin is a completely different beast.

Which for some reason reminds of of a post on a different thread on a different forum. It had scans of funny wrong answers to tests in school. One scan was of a short essay question that asked the student to list some accomplishments of the ancient Romans. He could only come up with one: "Learning to speak Latin."

[countrydirt]

Hi Cal!

Hi Col!

Ooops. I'd completely forgotten that I said that I supposed that people could call me cal (calamum or calamus), and started wondering why people were calling me Cal! (My uncle's name, by the way). Duh. I thought it was because I'm living in California, so when I saw you were in Colorado, I said "Hi Col!" Meanwhile, you probably thought I was a nut job spouting non sequitars! So what I meant to say was, "Hi countrydirt!"

No problem and you can call me Col...

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[VertOlive]

I've been told that when people who've studied Latin enter a seminary to study to become priests, they discover they have to completely relearn Latin. Apparently ecclesiastical Latin is a completely different beast.

It's the pronunciation, in the main, and some rare noun declensions. Having studied only classical pronunciation, my current prof, who teaches in a seminary, chides me on sounding like a barking centurion!

The thing I like best about Latin is that we get to practice sentences like "Prepare the catapults!" instead of "Where is the bathroom, please?"