Oh look.

[mayhap]

My suitemates smuggled in an überverbotentannenbaum.¹ Too bad² they have treated me at best like an interloper, and at worst, like a foul and sickening presence all semester, as I fully intend to report their arses to the front office.³ Vengeance shall be mine.<sup>4


1</sup>Sorry, but those are like half the words I know in German. The attempt to string them together was irresistible.
²For them, muahahahahaha!
³But not right now, because I just put on my pajamas.
⁴Because I hate stupid rules, but I hate my suitemates more.

Comments

[mayhap]

Eine Spitze. Hélas, pas comme le français que je vraiment étudie depuis quatre années.

Et linguam latinam scio, και Ελληνικός (but not really).

[sternel.livejournal.com]

j'ai un peu de francais, mais c'est pour moi disagreable. je prefere l'allemand, c'est pour moi plus de facile.

all I really remember from latin class is "Cornelia et Flavia sunt puellae Romana. Cornelia sedet sub arbore. Cornelia scribit. Flavia legit."

Hurrah for memorising chapter one of the textbook. All one paragraph of it. =)

[mayhap]

In our Latin textbook, the feminae semper in silva sunt. I like to throw that into the conversation occasionally:

Random person: So, what do you think?
Me: Feminae in silva sunt.
Random person: I see.

Et pour moi, c'est le français que je parle plus comfortablement, après l'anglais bien sûr, parce que c'était la première langue que j'ai étudiée. L'allemand, l'espagnol, l'italien, c'est assez facile à lire souvent, mais quand je leur écris il me faut toujours chercher de l'aide.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

i understood that, but i don't dare attempt to reply in kind as have already exhausted meagre supply of french. i can, however, inform you that the bus ticket is too expensive (in Scots Gaelic) and thank you in Croatian.

And are the feminae *semper* in silva? do they ever go ad villam? and i think i just butchered that ending. but it's been a few years. like, six. 0=)

[mayhap]

Nah, you got the ending just fine. :D

The situation seemed to be that you could drag the feminae ad villam, or ad Romam or ad fluminem or what have you, but they always seemed to revert to the silva the moment you turned your back.

Aww, now I miss my Latin teacher from days of yore, who was fabulous. We even convinced her that we needed to watch Gladiator and Disney's Hercules in class for very important educational purposes, oh yes. I must catch her for lunch when I get home.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

wah! all we watched was Spartacus.

However, in high school german, we watched Ravioli, the story of four children whose parents won a vacation in the north islands and left them home for a week, so they promptly spent all their cash on a week's worth of ravioli to eat, and then promptly got sick of it and attempted to scavenge more normal food. Like Pommes with Mayo. ::shudders:: it was highly amusing, and much more fun than Das Boot.

[mayhap]

As if that wasn't amusing enough, the review I turned up on IMDB was priceless:

"This T.V. series is one of the most disgusting german product I´ve ever seen, it was born of one disgusting idea, stupid children stay alone in their house, they waste the money buying ravioli because this is their favourite food and is very cheap and they can waste the money in very stupid things. The older brother, called Jarl-Kulle thinks that he is a writter, but he`s only an homosexual and dangerous boy for his brothers and sisters and for himself, with a stupid type-writter in the basement. The blockhead family has too the typical racketeer uncle, or something, and the typical old, frigid, and embittered servant without love life, who tries to oversee the silliness that make the imbecile family. This is a very disgusting subproduct, don`t watch it."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[sternel.livejournal.com]

dude.
i forgot about the uncle.

we never got around to seeing the final episode. i should investigate this.
::praises the argent spice::

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

Heh. Stumbled on this conversation somehow.
We watched this bizarre program that came with the book. It was about Thomas Hueber. (Er kommt aus Salzburg. Er woehnt gleich in Hamburg.)
Anyway, he had a crush on a girl named Andrea, who was a bitch to him, and his friend Claudia was her best friend and had a crush on Thomas. 'Twas actually interesting.
Then we watched Deutsch Plus! from the BBC, which was also decent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/dplus/

We saw Ravioli once, I believe, and found it weird as hell.

[maldiligenta.livejournal.com]

Cornelia and Flavia!  That's Ecce Romani!

Anecdote time: Back in high school I wrote a sketch which incorporated all the characters from Ecce Romani in a soap-opera-like story.  Cornelia was engaged to Valerius but seduced Sextus on the side, etc.  And pretty much all the scenes took place "sub arbore."  We performed it in the talent show, and it I am [rather sadly] still known for it to this day.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

hehe. it's like a secret society, all the latin students who learned about what goes on under trees. When in Rome, aye?

...and wow, you fanfic'ed Ecce Romani. that is truly impressive.

[mayhap]

*dies*

I know my Latin teacher started using Ecce Romani instead of Jenney's First Year Latin the year after I graduated. If you happened to have that in a format I could share with my little brother and Mrs. Kurtz ...

[maldiligenta.livejournal.com]

OK, first let me just quickly clarify that this was not so much a fanfic, more of a rather quickly written parody of our textbook.  Everyone found it funny at the time, but everyone was in high school at the time.  It actually came up in conversation though [sort of] at my reunion yesterday, so I'll see if the file is still on my old computer.  If I find it, maybe I'll put it up on my webpage.