Analysis of 'Apartment Life' spells and Latin.
Lum:
Don't know Latin, but as a native Spanish-speaker, that '-lo' ending (expello, apello, ect) is still used in Spanish and you don't need to stick the 'I' pronoun ('Yo') to know that I am the one doing the expelling... if that makes any sense...
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Metatwaddle on 2008 October 11, 08:10:12
Ours was Hernan Cortez. But it was the trademark of one guy on the team, and the one time that Cortez was an answer, he wasn't there. He was really disappointed.
Then there were the QuizNet contests, where we'd occasionally make something up when nobody on any team knew the answer. Usually they'd all just repeat the answer we gave, and it really annoyed the moderator. :D
I remember there was a quiz-type dealy where one player would always sleep through the entire thing, yet always have the right answer when prodded despite not having listened to any of it. He apparently wasn't all that well-liked, but everyone wanted him on the their team because that team always won.
Quinctia:
Quote from: Metatwaddle on 2008 October 11, 08:10:12
Ours was Hernan Cortez. But it was the trademark of one guy on the team, and the one time that Cortez was an answer, he wasn't there. He was really disappointed.
It was Latin quizbowl, actually called Certamen, so we had a slightly narrower range of topics. We had a "guess" guy on the team. If no one on the team knew an answer to buzz in, we'd kick him, and he could guess whatever he would like. The other teams would find him hilarious until he got answers right. We actually did quite well on the state level, but man, I went to nationals once and the people there were insane. No fun at all.
Quote from: Lum on 2008 October 11, 17:10:25
Don't know Latin, but as a native Spanish-speaker, that '-lo' ending (expello, apello, ect) is still used in Spanish and you don't need to stick the 'I' pronoun ('Yo') to know that I am the one doing the expelling... if that makes any sense...
Spanish is really close to Latin. I took four years of Latin in high school and did a bunch of contests with that, read a bunch of the literature, and then when I took Spanish in college, it was rather easy. Verb conjugation is really similar, and there's even less morphology with the nouns and adjectives! I did really well, except for the whole thing where habere/haber isn't the same verb in both languages, and the fact that we never really had to listen/speak much in Latin class.
I think it's a really common thing across the Romance languages to not require a subject pronoun because it's redundant with the conjugation of the verbs.
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