>>Interesting. When I learned Latin, myself some 30-odd years ago, it was noun - adj., as in:
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>>"Pueri in herba longa sunt cum puellis pulchris".
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>So there's nothing odd with either order, then. I still think it's "magnum opus" :).
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>>Also, we were of the "waney weedy winchy" school of pronunciation. How about you?
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>Our old professor (who retired next year)
He retired
next year????
>gave us a brief tour of the classic pronunciation (caesar - kaisar, cicero - kikero, poena - poyna), and then we just learned the traditional, which is as it's pronounced by Italian clergy. So, vehny, vihdy, vintzy.
Do you have the "w" sound in your own language though?
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
