Bisectuwhale

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start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

Masked, armored, and armed to the teeth, and they're afraid of people blowing whistles at them. link to post

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

additions from the og artist (credit)

at Pride in Northampton, MA (1989)

It accidentally is latin

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

Also if it is poetical latin and you're splitting the Dies, is that technically a caesura? I'm not up on the nuances of the term as it applies classically, but given the way the ides goes around here, it would be very funny if the phrase inherently involved, as it were, a Caesar.

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Anyone else remember this?