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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Plawranc on February 27, 2013, 05:27:26 PM
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A really good documentary on the Germanic Tribes and their war against the Romans
goes into detail of Roman occupation methods, Roman battle tactics, and the leader of the rebellion Arminius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0R5QdYssWk
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(http://s3.hubimg.com/u/4727434_f520.jpg)
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(http://s3.hubimg.com/u/4727434_f520.jpg)
Damnit Coombz, I was about to post that.
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:aok
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Terrific race the Romans...
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Yeah....but what have they ever done for us?
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well.... theres the aquaduct...and roads....and.... :)
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What have the Romans done for us?
Let me see your Judith :old:
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Yeah....but what have they ever done for us?
Inspired the TV series Sparticus :aok
They were an awfully violent lot if that show is to be believed :confused:
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Even today the movies about the Romans are watered down. They were naaaaaaaaaaasty
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I am really Julius Caesar :old:
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I am really Julius Caesar :old:
You might want to miss work in a couple of weeks then......
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You might want to miss work in a couple of weeks then......
:lol
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well.... theres the aquaduct...and roads....and.... :)
Well yes obviously the roads. The roads go without saying, but apart from the roads and the aqueduct and sanitation........
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You might want to miss work in a couple of weeks then......
:rofl
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well.... theres the aquaduct...and roads....and.... :)
Don't forget the vomitorium!
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Excellent documentary OP.
Check this one out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hpC44KD3O4
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ROMANI ITE DOMUN!
But please leave us those nice C.205s....
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Saw this and thought someone was talking crap about my family again (my RL last name is Roman...). :)
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ROMANI ITE DOMUN!
But please leave us those nice C.205s....
"This is motion towards, isn't it boy?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsawP_Ew0r4
"Now write that out a hundred times."
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My family tree goes all the way to Cesar, muhahahahah.
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Well yes obviously the roads. The roads go without saying, but apart from the roads and the aqueduct and sanitation........
ummm...The English language :aok
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My family tree goes all the way to Cesar, muhahahahah.
I demand a blood test :old:
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And a solid punt to the top.
(this photo reminded me of this thread)
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/563004_364996616951498_408437302_n.jpg)
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ummm...The English language :aok
English isn't based on Latin at all, but is the descendent of the languages spoken by the Germanic tribes that invaded England after the Romans left
English gets a lot of Romance vocabulary through French influence and Latin being Lingua Franca throughout Europe during the Middle Ages (just as all European languages did to some extent or another), but it's little more based on Latin than Russian is on French, and grammatically it's very solidly Germanic.
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English isn't based on Latin at all, but is the descendent of the languages spoken by the Germanic tribes that invaded England after the Romans left
English gets a lot of Romance vocabulary through French influence and Latin being Lingua Franca throughout Europe during the Middle Ages (just as all European languages did to some extent or another), but it's little more based on Latin than Russian is on French, and grammatically it's very solidly Germanic.
you should look up the roman Alphabet :aok
same as the English, just missing 2 I think....
this is fact....as far as how the symbols are sounded out is besides the point....our Alphabet is the Romans....which took them from the Greek Alphabet.
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Ink...
Alphabet does not equal language. Alphabet is just the character set. Whether you use the Latin alphabet or the FUTHARK, the English language is still the English language. It has no influence on grammar, vocabulary, morphology, etc.
Motherland:
Unfortunately, English grammar got royally screwed up by the influx of Norman French to the point that it's lost most of what it had in common with the other Germanic languages. Word order in most Germanic languages doesn't usually matter because of how words are conjugated. Dative, Genetive, and Nominative all have different endings so phrases still make sense regardless of the word order. Modern English loses all of those case endings. Oh, and then there's how articles and verbs have to agree with the case and number (singular/plural) of the word to which they belong (good god, there's about a thousand ways of conjugating "the" in German. Die, das, der, den, dem... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:). That's not even getting into word gender, which other Germanic languages retain but Modern English drops...
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There are no Latin influence in the UK we work more than 3 hours a day and pay our taxes :old:
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Well yes obviously the roads. The roads go without saying, but apart from the roads and the aqueduct and sanitation........
And wine, don't forget the wine.
Let's talk about the real enemy, the Judean People's Front!
Splitters!
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little known fact: the Romans were very careful at taking care of their teeth. they used grounded sea shells as toothpaste. hey at least they tried, unlike the rest of Europe.
semp
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I take very good care of my teeth, I keep them under my pillow at night :old:
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Ink...
Alphabet does not equal language. Alphabet is just the character set. Whether you use the Latin alphabet or the FUTHARK, the English language is still the English language. It has no influence on grammar, vocabulary, morphology, etc.
Motherland:
Unfortunately, English grammar got royally screwed up by the influx of Norman French to the point that it's lost most of what it had in common with the other Germanic languages. Word order in most Germanic languages doesn't usually matter because of how words are conjugated. Dative, Genetive, and Nominative all have different endings so phrases still make sense regardless of the word order. Modern English loses all of those case endings. Oh, and then there's how articles and verbs have to agree with the case and number (singular/plural) of the word to which they belong (good god, there's about a thousand ways of conjugating "the" in German. Die, das, der, den, dem... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:). That's not even getting into word gender, which other Germanic languages retain but Modern English drops...
I am not a wordalogist but.....looking at the way they were pronounced......is damn close to how we do....
America is the revived Roman empire....it is also the Beast from the Earth.
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Romans. Hmm. I dunno but I have a cool story, bro. I went to college with a guy form Bulgaria and I was taking him back to my hometown via some country back roads and said to him "these roads are a bit rough, but they are fun." His reply was, "there are no rough roads in America. Come to Bulgaria where we are still driving over bridges the Romans built and I will show you rough roads."
That puts a perspective on things. :)
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They have potatoes in Bulgaria and large stones :old:
Someone in Northern Bulgaria once had a large cabbage :old:
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Ink,
The letters of the latin alphabet represent certain sounds and when it is applied to other languages that remains true. It doesn't matter if it is Latin, English, Hindi or Japanese. That being true does not make Japanese related to Latin.
Recall that the first book published in English (Middle English) was Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at the end of the 1300s. The Latin alphabet was just adapted to English, and other Germanic languages, because it was already well tested and versatile.
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Hmm and breK up with cleo. I want her to be MINE! :devil
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I am Julius Ceasar :old:
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Motherland:
Unfortunately, English grammar got royally screwed up by the influx of Norman French to the point that it's lost most of what it had in common with the other Germanic languages. Word order in most Germanic languages doesn't usually matter because of how words are conjugated. Dative, Genetive, and Nominative all have different endings so phrases still make sense regardless of the word order. Modern English loses all of those case endings. Oh, and then there's how articles and verbs have to agree with the case and number (singular/plural) of the word to which they belong (good god, there's about a thousand ways of conjugating "the" in German. Die, das, der, den, dem... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:). That's not even getting into word gender, which other Germanic languages retain but Modern English drops...
Practically all European languages retain grammatical gender, that's not something that only makes English unique from Germanic languages and certainly not something it gets from French.
English grammar has certainly changed over the centuries but it's largely become more simplified and just lost a lot of features- obviously most notably grammatical gender and noun declensions among the various cases are simplified/absent- but you'd be hard pressed to say it's gotten significantly more Latinized outside of vocabulary, and even in that case the most common English words are Germanic in origin whereas it's mostly the 'flowery' words in our language that come from French and Latin.
And while I can't speak for the whole of Germanic languages, word order in German is certainly pretty strict just as it is in English, which is pretty logical considering that it is not nouns themselves (by a large part) that are declined for case, but articles and adjectives which aren't always present. Compare this to a Slavic language such as Russian which has a very complex declension system- wherein the nouns themselves are actually declined (and there are no articles in the first place) have word orders that are actually very sparse in comparison.
I am not a wordalogist but.....looking at the way they were pronounced......is damn close to how we do....
America is the revived Roman empire....it is also the Beast from the Earth.
English uses an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, just like every other European language, and like practically every language that didn't have a written form before it was colonized by Europeans. Even Cyrillic is a (very) adapted mash up of the Greek and Latin alphabets. But other than the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese...) all of them evolved separately from Latin- English is not from Latin, Finnish isn't even Indo-European, and Vietnamese isn't even spoken on the European continent, yet they all use adaptations of this very malleable alphabet.
Romans. Hmm. I dunno but I have a cool story, bro. I went to college with a guy form Bulgaria and I was taking him back to my hometown via some country back roads and said to him "these roads are a bit rough, but they are fun." His reply was, "there are no rough roads in America. Come to Bulgaria where we are still driving over bridges the Romans built and I will show you rough roads."
That puts a perspective on things. :)
I had a friend that was an exchange student from Germany who one day told us, "now I know why your speed limits are so low- it doesn't have to do with anything else, but if you drove as fast on your highways as you can on the Autobahn, your car would fall apart".
Puts a different perspective on things