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"Novum Eboracum est et urbs et civitas."
Translation:New York is both a city and a state.
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Yes. The same applies to "vel...vel" and "aut...aut," which mean "either...or."
I could be wrong, but it sounds like et is acting like parenthesis, NY is (city&state) idk if thats right but thats how it makes sense to me.
OH! That makes sense. I wish I could withdraw my "'New York is a state and a city,' should be an acceptable answer."
So boring to have anachronistic US cities. I would rather learn about the Roman Empire than the United States which will not help with reading Latin literature. Roma, Lugdunum, Ephesus, Syracusae would have been more appropriate.
On the other hand it's amusing to have a mix of historic and anachronistic vocabulary. We learn how to say both "I want cookies" and "The dutiful husband sacrifices". It's not a bad way of focusing on grammar, which remains a constant. But true, it would be nice to have more historic place names.
Unfortunately yes... Her very thick American accent makes it very hard to understand.
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Yes, you are right, Cesar. Too strong American accent in this sentence. Latin accent should resemble Italian accent more than any other one... But on the other hand, there is no opportunity to learn Latin in this way (easy and free) all over the world, and believe me: the old methodology at school, when I studied Latin many years ago was the Hell itself. Anyway, I miss a lot the names of many cities of the Ancient World. I hope they will appear later...
i would conjecture that various pronunciations of latín resulted after it's expansive geographical applications before electronic comunicación, whence romance languages; and latín writings from places North of or external to those places using romance languages being a little idiosyncratic. i wonder if it is possible to notice whether a medieval latín work was written in brittain as opposed to germany? today even with internet local dialects are everywhere. i can see 2 valid oppositional points: 1. classical latín should be preserved and that is what we should learn. 2 . latín is no longer a roman language and we should learn what is most current. this reminds me of the issue of whether so many native languages which have been decimated by imperialism should at this point be preserved. is there some practical advantage to knowing classical latín, or something like inuit? i cannot judge and please just ignore my ramblings as this is not a place for such topics but for language learning--and many kudos to its creators supporters and users.
As for Latin, it depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to talk to a priest, you should learn the ecclesiastical pronunciation, if you want to read Catullus and get the meter exactly right, you should learn the (reconstructed) classical pronunciation, especially the vowel lengths.
Then there is, out side of common dialect, scientific pronunciation when utilizing for scientific names such as animals and medicine as well. Wish I could go back in time and learn it from the original native speakers.
American? I'd have said both her accent and her voice sound German or Swiss German.
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Hilarious! I thought she sounded Scottish! But yes - might be Germanic. I don't detect American.
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The way she say urbs definitely isn't German. That's an English pronunciation of the u.
I came here to comment this. One of the female voices says something close to [ʌɹb̥s].
"Civitas"... reminds me of Down-under. Cheers to my Kiwi/Tas friends ^_^
Why does it have different spelling? In one was novum ebrocum and one was novi ebocri?
Case. Hoeever, Duolingo doesn't explicitly address case; learners have to figure it out through trial and error, or find an external reference. Sometimes some users post explanations, or links to external sources, in the comments.
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If you login via internet and not via app you can enter a tips section for every chapter. There are explanations. Unfortunately duolingo works different on ios app, android app and internet. And has different options on each version.
Would it be incorrect to say "Novum Eboracum est urbs et civitas" leaving out the "both" entirely?
The meaning is quite the same, but I think here the sentence insists on the fact the city is "both" things at the same time, so you need "et... et"
Just how it works. Pretty common. Greek uses και...και to do the same thing.
"et"........"et"....... is the way translated "both" during the Roman Empire.
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Why is "new york is both a town and a state" not correct. Where is the difference in urbe between town and city?
