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Glinda: “If a beautiful woman disagrees with me, I will immediately change my views. I have no principles.”

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

hacks is a show ultimately concerned with the interaction between material circumstances and the making of art. talent management being the b-plot stars of the show so the audience is forced to contend with the gears of the industry and not just the shiny finished product, deborah starting her journey in a place of material comfort but artistic stagnation, and the constant tension surrounding who most controls deborah's legacy - be it male executives, the media in their pockets, deborah's past naiveté, or deborah and her team - all contribute to a pervading sense that artistic expression is a hellish endeavor, at least if you want to do it well and sell a worthwhile product to an audience. there will be unfair constraints and devastating setbacks, and sometimes meeting that pressure head-on forces the best possible art from the artist.

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

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