#roga me

My teacher bought a majesty palm for the classroom at the beginning of the year, so of course the first thing my ten-person IB Latin 2 class did was give it a formal naming ceremony. His name is Colosseum, his growth progress is marked on the side of the ac vent, and we ritually sacrificed a bottle of water to him at the first latin club meeting. This isn’t relevant to anything in any way, but it seems like your kind of shenanigan

So I'm in highschool Latin and whenever our Latin teacher asks what case a noun is and no one can figure it out bc we're all stupid, he counts down from three then we all yell "probably ablative" and start clapping for ourselves Over 80% of the time it's actually ablative

My friend designed a shirt with the Nike swoop that says “Just Fac It” and I want to buy one so bad

Ahh, high school latin. I remember fondly watching Mean Girls in class and having to write an essay comparing the burn book to the works of catullus...

My Latin was thirty years ago so I KNOW you weren't my teacher, but you and she would have gotten along famously. Our final involved a full-on dinner complete with couches and a roast pig. They wouldn't let us actually light the fire in the classroom, though, more's the pity.

On the topic of Latin club t-shirts... Way back when I was in high school our teacher told us a Latin "yo mama" joke would have been "your mother sells vegetables." So naturally our shirts featured a cartoon I drew of Metella from Cambridge Latin holding one of those stadium concession boxes that go round your neck, full of vegetables.

RE: what do I do with my Latin now? -I learned Latin (and Ancient Greek) in middle school and throughout high school/college/present it made sciences, philosophy and various other classes much easier because so much is based on those languages. I almost never had to study because the meanings of words themselves are shortcuts when you understand them. I also appear a step ahead of others in ambiguous contexts, but I’m not -I just know how to breakdown language to my advantage and extrapolate.