As far as languages go, Latin is pretty easy. It's logical and predictable. There aren't a lot of irregular verbs. Nouns are pretty regular, except for some proper names in which the nominative is a word unrelated to the genitive (Jupiter, Jovis, e. g.).

You do have a bunch of pronouns to learn, but once you do, you can hic haec hoc until you die or become senile.

Do you really want to get invoved with a junior?

Hi Jim,

I hate when someone introduces themselves and I get flustered or didn't hear their name and I smile but don't remember it....especially if under pressure as you were in a competition.

I had Latin for 3 plus years..it is hard and I have no ear for languages so it was extra hard...My Latin teacher would line us up against the wall....Yeah, you felt the heat as if in a LineUp of Death, and drill us with Vocabulary tests.........pressure..

and translations for tests..and that tended to be brutal..I did well but it was torture and I have to say that I am horrible at languages (I think I said that) but got As..don't ask me how...but I did

ok, now I am breaking out in a sweat and panic attacks..

my sympathies..good luck with the test....hey, maybe you will see the Junior again:) (I know he is not Hot CC guy..but hey, what the heck, at least your Gaydar is working:)

Michael

I just wanted to point out that you didn't mention Hot CC guy in your last blog.

Tob

I seem to make an asshole out of myself a lot. Then there's kinda an awkward silence for a minute, and I say, "This would be the part where you tell me your name." So he tells it to me, and I try not to start crying as I walk away. I was very rude.

SB-

I doubt seriously if you are either rude or an asshole.

If you were a hunter, I would say that you've got buck fever. This affliction strikes deerhunters when they've got a deer in their sites and they get rattled. Their hands shake, they make mistakes and they don't get off a good shot.

In your case, you are a tad awkward with a dash of nerves. It is very common and it happens to everyone gay, str8 or Martian.

Give yourself a break. At 14, nobody is exactly what you might call smooth. What you don't want to do is get down on yourself and create even more anxiety about social situations.

You've got a lot going for you. You are smart, athletic and fun. Those other people out there that you are worried about: you are as good as any of them.

-JS

I just wanted to point out that you didn't mention Hot CC guy in your last blog.

 

Tob

Hey, a 3/4 hot gay guy is better than a 100% hot cc (str8) guy any day.

Also, any time someone talks about Latin, all I can think of is that part of "The Life of Brian" where the Roman Centurian was beating him for not conjugating the verb correctly when he was painting "Romans Go Home" on a wall.

:king: Snow Dog

(ahhh Python)

How shall I tell you this....Latin is easy. I know that's partly because I've been doing it forever but it's still easier than Greek and it's way easier than Pali. (I'm not supposed to say this stuff because we're supposed to insist that all languages are equally easy - well whoever decided that didn't have to choose between Latin and spainish).

The fact is dude...there's only five declensions all you have to learn is five standard declensions and then remember which nouns are in which...it's easy! The problem with the tenses is not really remembering them all - they aren't hard since most are actually derivable from earlier compound forms so if you don't know one you can work it out (amabo from amare habeo etc), what is more difficult is getting the sequence of tenses right.

Once you're used to it reading Latin or translatin into English is child's play the only dificult things are translating into Latin and construing. I don't really understand why they make non-specialists do that stuff since they'll never ever need it - all they really need is to read a Latin text.

I learned Latin for 5 years and all I remember is:

Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.

Tob

I just wanted to point out that you didn't mention Hot CC guy in your last blog.

 

Tob

I noticed that, but was too polite to mention it in my post.

The only Latin that I know:

Illegitimi Non Carborundum

-JS

Hehehe.

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote50.htm

Belated good luck with your cards! And a suggestion: write bigger, or use a larger font.

I forgot Hot CC guy! Well, there's really nothing new to post about him. Oh, here's something: It is getting pretty chilly here in OK, so we wear under armor at cross country a lot. When he wears under armor pants, you can totally see his bulge. It seems to me that he hasn't got anything tp be ashamed of...in fact, I think he should be pretty proud.

Just a little word about the name thing, I'm pretty bad with names sometimes and feel awkward too when someone remembers my name and I can't remember theirs. So after many many years of making a fool of myself in that situation, I've found the best way to deal with it is just to smile after they've said their hellos and say 'I feel really bad, but I'm sorry, I can't remember your name.' It might be a bit embarrassing to admit that you don't know their name, but doing it quickly and in a polite way at least gets it over and done with Lol, it works better than what I did for a while, which was using some random name and when they say 'That's not my name' and hopefully tell you the right one, you can blame someone for telling you the wrong thing!

and feel awkward too when someone remembers my name and I can't remember theirs.

Well, we don't know that they ever actually met. OK, so someone likely introduced the moderator to the group, so SB would have heard his name.

But from what little that has been said, I see the possibility that a hot junior went to some trouble to find out SB's name, and then sought him out to speak to him.

He knew my name because I buzzed in to answer questions a lot. Every time you buzz in, the moderator has to recognize you by saying your name. After I had buzzed in for the 800th time, I think it was pretty easy for him to remember my name. And I doubt he sought me out, it was just kinda an awkward meeting in the hallway. But it is nice to think of it that way.