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Today my Latin professor, when handing back my homework, told the class that they must show me the proper respect because I am from the family of the first emperor of Rome. I said, "Yes, please do" (pay me the proper respect, that is.)

He also pronounced my name Ock-tah-wee-uh, which of course I won't tolerate from anyone except Latin teachers.

By the way, my biggest problem in learning (to a certain degree, re-learning; I took it for a year and a half, the entire duration of my high school career) Latin is going to be the fact that I have a huge gap in knowledge about English word function. It's just one of those things I haven't studied formally, at least since junior high, and can't keep straight. Like in that song from 1776,

...I can't write with any style or proper etiquette
I don't know a participle from a predicate
I am just a simple cobbler from Connecticut...

(All true except the cobbler from Connecticut part.)

The problem is delineated nicely here:

> It's not only a lack of Latin grammar that causes a problem, rather a lack of
> English grammar. I don't have any idea how this has happened, but the
> secondary schools don't seem to be providing a good grounding in the
> syntax of our own language, so the students end up doing "double learning"
> - first how the grammatical concepts work in English, then again (and right
> away) in Latin. Not the best of situations to be sure.

If anyone would care to tutor me in Latin, I'll pay you in sexual favours and/or knitted garments. (Unless my mom-- who SHOULDN'T BE READING THIS, right?-- volunteers. I hope she wouldn't want the first payment option.)

(As an aside, I finally contacted my math teacher from the summer about the fact that my grade hasn't been entered yet. He said I got an A-. Yay!)

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