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Johannes Patruus

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Sep 30, 2010, 3:26:22 AM9/30/10

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Johannes Patruus

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Sep 30, 2010, 1:12:59 PM9/30/10

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On 30/09/2010 17:40, B. T. Raven wrote:
> Johannes Patruus wrote:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/aL464L
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>> Patruus
>
> machina interpretatrix pro "What's up?" reddit "quis 'sursum." Nondum
> paratum est programma ut horis summis usurpetur (prime time).
>
> now is the time for all good typists to come to the aid of their country
> gives:
> Nunc est omne enim bonum est typists subveni patriae
>
> .... subvenire patriae would have been somewhat idiomatic.

At least they've had the modesty to tag it as "alpha".

More reportage -

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-translate-adds-support-for-latin.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8034196/Google-launches-Latin-translation-tool.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/09/30/businessinsider-google-just-made-a-product-announcement-in-latin-2010-9.DTL

Patruus

Ed Cryer

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Sep 30, 2010, 1:39:52 PM9/30/10

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On 30/09/2010 08:26, Johannes Patruus wrote:
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> Patruus

I tried it with;
arma virumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris
and got;
I sing of arms and the man of Troy, who was the first from the shores of

Now, that's not bad; but it illustrates a crucial point of language that
will probably defeat machine-translation in aeternitatem.

Why does no human associate "Troiae" with "virum"; and why does the
machine do so?

Answer; "Troiae" comes after the caesura in the hexameter line. Nothing
more, nothing less. But it is a crucial factor for us; cultural, social,
human.

Ed

Johannes Patruus

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Sep 30, 2010, 4:15:24 PM9/30/10

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"Color me skeptical", quoth Fr. Zed, but his numerous respondents seem
generally better impressed:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/09/google-translate-adds-latin-translation-tool/

And the next must-translate revivified ancient language for Google must
surely be Babylonian:
http://www.physorg.com/news205059195.html

Patruus

q.jo...@gmail.com

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Jan 8, 2017, 10:17:15 AM1/8/17

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On Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:26:22 AM UTC-4, Johannes Patruus wrote:
> http://bit.ly/aL464L
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> Patruus

eat to live

Ed Cryer

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Jan 8, 2017, 2:00:54 PM1/8/17

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Vivat Patruus. Nam in hoc loco nil de eo audivimus vidimusve legimusve
abhinc fere triennium.

Ed

B. T. Raven

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Jan 8, 2017, 5:02:04 PM1/8/17

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I thouht he was sending OED word of the day links more recently than
that. Has it been that long?

Eduardus

Richard van Schaik

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Jan 8, 2017, 5:26:08 PM1/8/17

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Last message seen from Patruus was 20 Jun 2016. His last WOTD not very
long before.

--
Richard van Schaik
f.m.a.vans...@THISgmail.com
http://www.fmavanschaik.nl/
The world is one big madhouse and this is main office.

Ed Cryer

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Jan 9, 2017, 5:56:10 AM1/9/17

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Richard van Schaik wrote:
> On 08/01/2017 23:00, B. T. Raven wrote:
>> On 1/8/2017 13:00, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> q.jo...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:26:22 AM UTC-4, Johannes Patruus
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> http://bit.ly/aL464L
>>>>>
>>>>> Patruus
>>>>
>>>> eat to live
>>>>
>>>
>>> Vivat Patruus. Nam in hoc loco nil de eo audivimus vidimusve legimusve
>>> abhinc fere triennium.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> I thouht he was sending OED word of the day links more recently than
>> that. Has it been that long?
>>
>> Eduardus
>
> Last message seen from Patruus was 20 Jun 2016. His last WOTD not very
> long before.
>

I've found this in a London forum, late September 2016;
https://www.londonbanter.co.uk/search.php?searchid=205259

Ed

B. T. Raven

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Jan 9, 2017, 12:43:43 PM1/9/17

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All I see is 'sorry, no matches'

Evertjan.

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Jan 9, 2017, 1:22:52 PM1/9/17

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"B. T. Raven" <btr...@nihilo.net> wrote on 09 Jan 2017 in
alt.language.latin:

> All I see is 'sorry, no matches'

Petisti lucem?

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Ed Cryer

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Jan 9, 2017, 2:28:04 PM1/9/17

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B. T. Raven wrote:
> All I see is 'sorry, no matches'
>

Try this; second post down;
https://www.londonbanter.co.uk/london-transport/15116-roastmasters-worst.html#post158056

Ed

B. T. Raven

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Jan 10, 2017, 10:56:04 AM1/10/17

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I saw that. To make it less off-topic, I note that 16 is an acceptable
abbreviation for 2016 as long as the world ends before 2116.

Eduardus

Ed Cryer

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Jan 10, 2017, 2:05:26 PM1/10/17

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B. T. Raven wrote:
> I saw that. To make it less off-topic, I note that 16 is an acceptable
> abbreviation for 2016 as long as the world ends before 2116.
>
> Eduardus
>

Forget the world ending, my friend. "The 60's" doesn't refer to the 1760's.

Ed

sayten...@gmail.com

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May 14, 2017, 11:00:17 AM5/14/17

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On Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 8:26:22 AM UTC+1, Johannes Patruus wrote:
> http://bit.ly/aL464L
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> Patruus

Sorry, I've lost my Langenscheidt dictionary (or, as my Latin teacher called it, his big dick...) so I need a direct translation of "GLUTEUS" ; I can only presume it's along the lines of "the fat one" or something of that sort. Any assistance gratefully received.
Thankyou.

sayten...@gmail.com

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May 14, 2017, 11:05:28 AM5/14/17

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Sorry if this is a repeat, but can anyone translate "GLUTEUS" for me? I'd be most grateful, because although I'm well-aware that a "Gluteus maximus" is one of the large muscles making up a buttock, I require a transliteration of the actual word "gluteus", which I presume to mean "fat ; large ; the fat one", more or less.
Thankyou for your attention.
Jonnine.

John W Kennedy

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May 14, 2017, 12:33:22 PM5/14/17

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Gk. γλουτός, rump. There’s a translation and a transliteration, too.

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

B. T. Raven

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May 15, 2017, 1:16:47 AM5/15/17

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All I can find in the big dickshunairy is 'glut glut' the Latin for the
English glug glug. Maybe you should be in a usenet group dedicated to
anatomy.

ed

B. T. Raven

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May 15, 2017, 1:20:48 AM5/15/17

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On 5/14/2017 10:00, sayten...@gmail.com wrote:

By the way, if you click on the *bitly* link you may install a copy of
wannacry on your computer. Is Unka John still here?

Evertjan.

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May 15, 2017, 5:57:11 AM5/15/17

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sayten...@gmail.com wrote on 14 May 2017 in alt.language.latin:

> Sorry if this is a repeat, but can anyone translate "GLUTEUS" for me?
> I'd be most grateful, because although I'm well-aware that a "Gluteus
> maximus" is one of the large muscles making up a buttock, I require a
> transliteration of the actual word "gluteus", which I presume to mean
> "fat ; large ; the fat one", more or less.

Less, meseems!

1
You cannot *translate* a single word, you need context.

2
You do not need to *transliterate* Latin,
as English uses the same alphabet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration>

For single words read a dictionary-entry.

==================

Now as Lewis & Short does not have the word Gluteus,
I suppose it is not classic Latin, possibly only anatomical newspeak.

I suppose "gluteus" is meant to be a substantive
of the adjective "glutus",
meaning "tenacious, well-tempered, soft".

<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=gl%C5%ABtus&la=la&can=gl%C5%
ABtus0#lexicon>

Se also "gluten -inis", glutus", "gluo" here:
<https://books.google.nl/books?id=AwtnAAAAcAAJ&vq=glutus&hl=nl&pg=PA492
#v=snippet&q=gluten%20glutus&f=false>

The substantive form could mean:

the tenacious one,
the well-tempered one,
the soft one.