Friday Morning Latin Lesson, Vol LXXXI

Because I'm sick and lazy--but more lazy than sick--you're not getting what I had originally planned in this spot. We'll delay that shizz till next week.

Instead, I'll give you this little snippet:

We use a lot of abbreviations for Latin phrases in English. That is to say, we use a lot of abbreviations of Latin phrases in English incorrectly, mostly because people don't know what they mean.

i.e. stands for "id est" which means "it is" or "that is". We should use this in place of "in other words".

e.g. stands for "exempli gratia" which means "for the sake of an example", which we should use as "for example" (see, literal translation!).

etc... stands for "et cetera", which means "and other things" or "and so forth". The most grating thing here is that the pronunciation has changed so that the c has taken on a soft (sibilant) sound /s/ instead of the classical hard /k/ sound as the Romans would have pronounced it. But then "et ket-er-ah" sounds funny, even when I say it in my head.

For a handy guide, here's The Oatmeal explaining how to use the first two in the list, i.e., a proper grammar guide in humorous fashion for you.

See what I did there? I applied today's Latin lesson within the Latin lesson!!! I should be rewarded with something grand, e.g., boobs.

Fuck, I'm awesome.

That may be the cough drops talking; I'm unsure at this point.

Anyway, to keep up with tradition, here's a non sequitur picture of some girls wearing "togas".



To answer your questions: Green, white on the left, turquoise, white on the right, and then pink.

Valete, amici!