Me: 1. Ovid: 0.

[cygna_hime]

Haha, I finished my Latin summer work! 37 lines of Ovid in an hour; I rule. At life, the universe, and geeking. And I only looked in my English copy for a hint once.

See, Ovid is one of your more difficult poets, in that he is very good at the Latin poetry style, which consists of actively working against basic laws of syntax. As in, you know the theory that adjectives should be somewhere near the noun they modify? Well, Ovid gets POINTS for deliberately putting the adjectives on one side of the verb and the nouns on the other, and just letting you guess which goes with which.

That said, it helps to have read someone else's translation and, thus, know what's supposed to be happening. Apollo is such a prat. And very very gay, but that's another story. Several, actually.

I do love translating Latin. There may be something very wrong with me.

Subjects complete: 1. Subjects remaining: 3. Bah.

Comments

[stormflare.livejournal.com]

you taking BC Calc? I can't find the summer work...

[aerinth.livejournal.com]

I knew I should have saved mine! You could have had it.... don't worry if you don't get it. he didn't check for us. but it is what you have a test on the first week. but its all review.

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Do you have a device of copy-making? I have the work (I kept all my work together via the surprisingly effective method of putting it all in a stack on top of my French notebook), but no such device.

[stormflare.livejournal.com]

yes, I do. It's a scanner-printer thing that works under it's own power and seems evil. But... yeah.

[stormflare.livejournal.com]

oh, and want to do something tomorrow? I have a plane to catch at 10, but... earlier in the day would be fun. I could show you my skirt. It's awesome.

Oh, and I can't sleep. This is bad.

[aerinth.livejournal.com]

There is nothing wrong with you! It's like me doing something crazy with math...... except its in your area of geekness.

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

I was the same way in college with Greek. :) But yeah, I remember Ovid was a bit tricky at first, but once you got it, it was such a joy to translate.

So there's nothing wrong with you! Sadly, it's the rest of the world..