Flowers from my mystery destination in March.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Flowers from my mystery destination in March.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Elucidate and cloud both slide off the tongue and share many letters. The cloud bank is so beautiful on the beach, but it also portends changing weather. Time to head home.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: elucidate.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: language.
I spent three days with the Rotary President Elect Training this past weekend. I am part of District 5020, which stretches from the end of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada down the Olympic Peninsula, WA, United States. There were people from ten districts.
The Rotary’s Polio Plus program is working hard to eradicate polio. This year the match from the Gates Foundation will be 2 dollars for every dollar the Rotary brings to end polio.
The flags from all the different countries and people working together: that speaks the language of peace and hope to me.
For the Daily Prompt: puzzled.
Security window bars in Seattle taken to a new level: a language lesson. Beautiful and functional. Quite wonderful….
A year ago a friend asked me, “Did they teach you latin in medical school?”
I said, “No, but I took two years in high school. Then I was an exchange student to Denmark and forgot most of it.”
He is learning latin. He is studying verb conjugation and he showed me various Youtube songs to remember it. So here is my present tense conjugation poem. Next, it needs a tune…. or a voice to set it into memory. I am going to hint to another wordpress author/reader……
There are a few other tenses to work with besides the present active indicative. I think that to make each one memorable, a different rhyme pattern or tune should be used. Let’s see. Go to it fellow noders! Veni, vidi, vici!
Amo: amare with an o
and you must drop the ARE, you know.
That’s I love, you know it’s true
The latin version of “I love you.”
Amas: amare with an s
Drop R and E, please say yes
You love, in latin, present tense
You love latin beyond all sense
Amat: amare with a t
Drop R and E, you start to see
She loves, he loves, it loves me
So much love is great to see
Amamus: add a mus you must
Drop R and E, a change is just
We love in the here and now
We love poems about purple cows
Amatis: tis time to add a tis
Drop r and e, remember this
You all love, ya’ll is not a word
But yawls are sailboats so I’ve heard
Amant: N and T complete the pattern
Drop r and e, you’re not a slattern
They love, they do, they truly do
They love me as much as you
In summation
a revelation
of loving latin
conjugation
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