#latinate

io che mando a mia madre pezzi di traduzione da fare visto che ha deciso di imparare l’inglese all’età della pensione diventa uno splendido e tenero contrappasso di quando mi aiutava con le versioni di latino al liceo.

Translations also shed new light on familiar Shakespearean passages. Consider for example these lines from Macbeth —

The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.

Glide: Glided, Glid, Glode. Strider Strode.

I’ll never really believe that the past tense of “to glide” is glided.

It seems childish. Any reason it should follow “to elide”, i.e. elided?

That’s a Latinate word. Not Germanic, like “to stride” which gives strode,

And “to ride”, obv. rode. So what about glode?

It might be archaic, but it feels right. Righter even than glid,

As per “to hide” giving hid, “to slide” and then slid.

By analogy, I…