ms_jes ([info]ms_jes) wrote,
@ 2004-06-01 17:15:00
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Time flies
Can't believe its June already! Never mind May- where did April go???

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[info]xxthepatientxx
2004-06-01 09:53 am UTC (link)
Tempus fugit!!

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[info]ms_jes
2004-06-02 03:31 am UTC (link)
huh? latin's a little rusty (ok, never learned)

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-02 04:21 am UTC (link)
Tempus (nominative singular, therefore subject of the sentence) ... a division, part, or section ... more often applied to time than to space. Thus, the moment, the period, the era, this time of day, especially with a sense that it is the right or the most important slice of time.

Fugit: from fugio, fugere-fugit-fugitum. Third person singular present active indicative. Therefore an action which the subject is performing right now. To take flight, to run away, to avoid vigorously. Originally meant what happens when soldiers are routed -- i.e. they throw away the sword and shield and run away too fast for their still-armed pursuers to catch.

Often translated in Renaissance Latin -- which tended to be sloppy -- as "time flies". More accurately, "the (right) moment is getting away."

Now copy it out four times in ink and prepare a complete declension of tempus or a complete conjugation of the present active indicative of fugio. Depending on whether you prefer to conjugate or to decline. I'm in my declining years myself but you kids go ahead and conjugate, especially if I can watch.

Now aren't you sorry you didn't take Latin?

-- jb

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-02 05:24 am UTC (link)
Speaking of sloppy ... that should be fugio, fugere, fugi, fugitum. I knew something was bothering me after I posted ...

There is something very satisfying about avoiding writing by analyzing a Latin sentence that means "the time is getting away." Pegs my irony meter.

-- jb

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trivia overload!!!
[info]ms_jes
2004-06-02 07:22 pm UTC (link)
I can always count on John to over-answer any question. The more random the question, the longer the answer!
But its amusing, as long as you don't try to understand it. If anyone DOES understand it, go hide under a table and wait to be put out of your misery :-)
Keep up the good work!

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