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Um, no, it means "killing living beings", not "to kill living beings", which would indicate some sort of finalism which you won't find in a simple infinitivus (if it were gerundivum or gerundium or whatever I'd let it up for interpretation, but right now it's not). I know that in English it's normal to say "to walk" as a simple infinitivus, but that's not how it's interpreted in Latin.
If you read the Aeneid or some other poetic work, you'll find that -ere is often used instead of -erunt for metrical or rhythmical reasons. So yeah, in the worst case, it'll be "they kill living beings".
EDIT: In other words, you'll need a bit more than super basic classic Latin knowledge to know what you're talking about, and you need a lot of Google searches to find out what I'm talking about. Maybe you shouldn't have dropped it.
EDIT2: Before you tell me, yes, it'll be a perfectum. So yes, if you were a grammar nazi you could argue that it's "they (have) killed animals". Have fun and don't just jump in calling people out while you already know you don't know what you're talking about. Urgh.
If you read the Aeneid or some other poetic work, you'll find that -ere is often used instead of -erunt for metrical or rhythmical reasons. So yeah, in the worst case, it'll be "they kill living beings".
EDIT: In other words, you'll need a bit more than super basic classic Latin knowledge to know what you're talking about, and you need a lot of Google searches to find out what I'm talking about. Maybe you shouldn't have dropped it.
EDIT2: Before you tell me, yes, it'll be a perfectum. So yes, if you were a grammar nazi you could argue that it's "they (have) killed animals". Have fun and don't just jump in calling people out while you already know you don't know what you're talking about. Urgh.
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mastrer1000 wrote:
edit: omfg why did I pick this ****ty *** language in 5th grade when we had to pick our second foreign language? It is a dead language and the only time it was ever useful to me after I dropped it was to win a ****ty nitpicky internet argument. The worst thing about it is that anyone suspecting thatyou were wrong only needed to do like 3 simple google searches to proove it without learning latin.
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Latest Legend wrote:
Um, no, it means "killing living beings", not "to kill living beings", which would indicate some sort of finalism which you won't find in a simple infinitivus (if it were gerundivum or gerundium or whatever I'd let it up for interpretation, but right now it's not). I know that in English it's normal to say "to walk" as a simple infinitivus, but that's not how it's interpreted in Latin.
If you read the Aeneid or some other poetic work, you'll find that -ere is often used instead of -erunt for metrical or rhythmical reasons. So yeah, in the worst case, it'll be "they kill living beings".
EDIT: In other words, you'll need a bit more than super basic classic Latin knowledge to know what you're talking about, and you need a lot of Google searches to find out what I'm talking about. Maybe you shouldn't have dropped it.
EDIT2: Before you tell me, yes, it'll be a perfectum. So yes, if you were a grammar nazi you could argue that it's "they (have) killed animals". Have fun and don't just jump in calling people out while you already know you don't know what you're talking about. Urgh.
If you read the Aeneid or some other poetic work, you'll find that -ere is often used instead of -erunt for metrical or rhythmical reasons. So yeah, in the worst case, it'll be "they kill living beings".
EDIT: In other words, you'll need a bit more than super basic classic Latin knowledge to know what you're talking about, and you need a lot of Google searches to find out what I'm talking about. Maybe you shouldn't have dropped it.
EDIT2: Before you tell me, yes, it'll be a perfectum. So yes, if you were a grammar nazi you could argue that it's "they (have) killed animals". Have fun and don't just jump in calling people out while you already know you don't know what you're talking about. Urgh.
You are prohably right, the last time I had latin was like 4 years ago.
edit: I also just wanted to point out that you also have to be good at this dumb ****ing language or you won't even win the internet arguments.
mastrer1000 wrote:
You are prohably right, the last time I had latin was like 4 years ago.
edit: I also just wanted to point out that you also have to be good at this dumb ****ing language or you won't even win the internet arguments.
I'd chime in, but the last time I actually took a Latin class was 8 years ago, so most of it just faded. Although, I have to say, I did always enjoy it and I'm sad that it's not actually a spoken language today.
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Well, if worst comes to worst, it could be interpreted as "they kill living beings (/animals)", so clearly you're not the one at fault here ^^
not really. "Occidere" means "to kill" and "animalia" is the accusative plural of animal(the latin word), so the full thing means "to kill animals". "They kill animals" would be "occidunt animalia".
edit: omfg why did I pick this ****ty *** language in 5th grade when we had to pick our second foreign language? It is a dead language and the only time it was ever useful to me after I dropped it was to win a ****ty nitpicky internet argument. The worst thing about it is that anyone suspecting thatyou were wrong only needed to do like 3 simple google searches to proove it without learning latin.