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Topic started on 24-9-2004 @ 12:57 PM by Odd
These words have appeared at the bottom of the blacklabyrinth page...

Abominatio likely meaning "abomination", nasci being Latin for "to be born" or "to spring forth", and autumnum being uncertain but probably meaning "autumn", I think we can expect a monster to spring forth this Fall.

If this is a game, it appeals to me much more than the previous two... let's just stay away from the numbers this time!


reply posted on 25-9-2004 @ 05:13 AM by amantine
My analysis of the text on IgnoranceDenied:


Oh, couldn't the people that make these games pick up a Latin dictionary and grammar book?

"Unus infinitas" = one infinity
This should be "Una infinitas", because infinitas is feminine. Unus is the masculine form of the adjective "unus, una, unum".

"abominatio nasci autumnum" the horror (is?) to begin (in?) autumn
I think they wanted to signify a time with autumnum, but the accusativus is only for lengths of time, e.g. "multos annos illic habitabat" = he lived there for many years. A point in time, like "in autumn", requires an ablativus temporis: "autumno" instead of "autumnum". I don't think nascor can be used as a transitive verb, which it seems to be if autumnus is meant as accusativus. None of the six possible translations of nascor in my dictionary are transitive.

I'm going to let them get away with the NcI-construction (nominativus cum infinitivo), although that officially requires another verb. I've seen Tacitus use an AcI (accusativus cum infinitivo) without a verb, so I guess that a NcI without a verb is sometimes allowed as well.


I will probably not participate in this game, because of the conflicts between me being FSME and moderator on IgnoranceDenied and playing this game. Maybe Hunt_Admin can clear this up. Anyway, I just couldn't stand seeing the mistakes in the text.

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