Latin for All Occasions

Latin for All Occasions
Author: Henry Beard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2004-08-19
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781592400805
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With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). It’s all here, whether you’re a student of the language or just want to talk like one. From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide. Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.

The Morphosyntax of Transitions

The Morphosyntax of Transitions
Author: Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198733283
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This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization that classifies languages as either 'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed'. In verb-framed languages, such as those of the Romance family, the information about the predicate is encoded by the verb. Satellite-framed languages, on the other hand, can be further subdivided into weak satellite-framed languages, in which theinformation is expressed by a prefix on the verb, and strong satellite-framed languages, in which it is expressed by a preposition. In this volume, Víctor Acedo-Matellán explores the similarities betweenLatin and Slavic in their expression of events of transition: neither allows the expression of complex adjectival resultative constructions and both express the result state or location of a complex transition through prefixes. They are therefore analysed as weak satellite-framed languages, along with Ancient Greek and some varieties of Mandarin Chinese, and stand in contrast to strong satellite-framed languages such as English, the Germanic languages in general, and Finno-Ugric. This variationis explained in terms of the morphological properties of the head expressing transition, Path, which is argued to be prefixal in weak but not in strong satellite-framed languages. On the other hand,in verb-framed languages like Romance, Path is strictly adjacent to the eventive head v. The analysis is couched in a neo-constructionist approach to argument structure, which accounts for the verbal elasticity shown by Latin, and a Distributed Morphology approach to the syntax-morphology interface.

Latro Fremo

Latro Fremo
Author: Christopher L. G. Tave 33
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781796076660
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WHAT kind of book is LATRO FREMO ? If you are a student of Historical Revisionism, then this book is for you. If you are someone who believes humanity has the tendency to manipulate facts to serve a particular self-serving ideology, then LATRO FREMO is your tome! Last, if you have ever been suspecting of the archetypical truisms of Prince Hall Freemasonry, then there is no question this is your publication. LATRO FREMO is not your typical chronicle or auld lang syne historiography of Prince Hall Freemasonry. In fact, this book is a contemporary, unbiased, divide-and-conquer algorithm of the history of Prince Hall Freemasonry in the viewpoint of a Black Freemason who is not a Prince Hall Freemason. As such, my attempt through LATRO FREMO is to share evidence of the proper history of Black Freemasonry. For decades, misinformation regarding the de facto composition of Prince Hall Freemasonry has been circulated throughout the Masonic community, the general public, and especially to myself, which needs to be addressed. Succinctly, the old narratives "JUST DON'T ADD UP!" "What is that?" I inquired. The Prince Hall Mason responded, "It means that you are not a legitimate mason!" A chill flowed through my entire body. I responded, "I have proof that my organization is legitimate!" He chuckled and said, "Oh you do?" He continued, "Let me get this right, you are black as well as your entire lodge, you claim to be A.F. & A.M. and your Grand Lodge is in Austin, TX and not Waco, TX?"As soon as he finished his remark, I responded with conviction, "That's right!" He looked at me with raised eyebrows and laughed, "Okay, so tell me this, who is your father?" Immediately, I began to think his question was a trick so I responded, "Father? Grand Lodges don't have Fathers!?" He rebutted, "Well, yours does. So, when you find out who he is, let me know and then we will have a real talk! You are still hoodwinked my brother!" After the conversation, even though I was confident in everything I had said, I couldn't shake that last question he asked me about my father; "Father? That makes no sense. No one has ever told me nor have I read anything about a father!"