I'm baffled by Caesar's Latin pronunciation.

Either I'm critically misinformed and Caesar is speaking the true tongue of ancient Rome, or it is Caesar that is wrong.

He pronounces centurian

ken tu rian

And he pronounces etcetera

et ke te ra



I'm intrigued.

Isn't that how "c" is pronounced in Latin?

Latin is so old their has to be different pronunciations of some words.

and time has passed for so long dialects had to change up, just as the tribes in honest hearts did.

The hard c and the dipthongs in their names is classic latin pronunciation. The soft sound is likely just the Western pronunciation.

He is trying to mimic Classical Latin, but his and other Legion members' Latin is always messed up by typical American accent ruining it.
Some Latin pronunciation rules (using IPA)

"c" is always pronounced [k], as in [kertus], certus, meaning "certain"
"qu" is always pronounced [kv], as in [kvinvke], quinque, meaning "five"
"ae" and "oe" are always pronounced [ee], as in [keesar], Caesar.
Quite often Latin vowels are pronounced longer than as just one. It takes time to recognize when to make a vowel long as there are no real rules for it. "Re vera" for one, meaning "in fact", is pronounced [ree veeraa]

Yeah, the way I (and im sure most of the world) was brought up calling him Julius "Seezar", wich I am realizing is just us foolish westerners butchering classical language (or any language other than English for that matter)...lol

Sadly, most of us butcher english, also.

-Gunny out.

I'm baffled by the people who actually know latin. :bonk:
C is K. correct?
C(K)aesar.

I studied Latin in school. Gets all the ladies, y'know? When some puella pulchra comes by you, all you need is a avicula celeris* here and vita senumquieta est** there, and WHAM.

And yes, C = K.

* "Quick little birds"
** "Are old people's lives quiet?"
My point: even if it's complete nonsense, it's exotic and thus good.

My brother owns a shirt that says, "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes." Or something like that (had to look online for at least a close approximation).

And he knows what it means.

:rofl:


Not telling you.

My latin teacher instructed us to put a similar bumper sticker on our cars

I had to translate. :c
Puella Pulchra = Beautiful Girl
Avicula Celeris = Swift little bird
Vita Senumquieta est = Life is ???

I noticed that it kinda works like Spanish
Where Se?ora bonita is pretty lady/woman.
Noun first then the pronoun?
I'm going to study Latin if I decide to go to college.
And no, old people's lives aren't quiet, look at Arnold Schwarzenegger. :tongue:

wat u talkin bout foo? I dun butcher da inklish language..U krazy mang...

haha, too true...

I sort of did the translations already there, you noticed?

In Latin it doesn't really matter which one comes first noun or pronoun. All I can say is "you'll know what just feels right". I would say that noun comes first most cases, but there is no written-in-mountains rule.

For old Latin c = k, and all instances of soft c were used by s, and k was used for hard c. That changed by classical Latin times. :spotted owl:

:facepalm: I'm dumb.
Alrighty.

I'm in Latin II atm, but I've never heard of these rules. I always say Quinque as: Kwin-Kway
and I thought "ae" made an "I" sound. (As in: "Kai-sar")

..."V's" make the English "W" sound. Maybe that's what you mean with "qu"? ([kv] = [kw]?)

English is butchered nowadays.

Well if English is "butchered" today, 50 years from now would it just be considered "normal" and the current use "butchered"?