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"Quot universitates et iuvenes Philadelphiae sunt?"
Translation:How many universities and young men are in Philadelphia?
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It would be nice if the examples weren't such that we have to type them over half a minute. Not to mention Roman places would fit better than American ones.
In fairness, Philadelphia was also the name of a prominent Greek city, known as Alaşehir in Turkey today
As someone who studied the phonology of Latin at university i have to say that the speaker doesn't pronounce it well. It's very distractive.
Why does she say "soynt" instead of "sunt"? Is it a mispronunciation, or am I forgetting some rule of Latin?
It's definitely /sʊnt/; this person's speech is a bit exaggerated and unclear.
Anglophone accent. Check this channel for crystal clear pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRllohBcHec7YUgW6HfltLA
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We are clearly hearing different things. To me the male voice says something between sunnt and sant and the female soont. It may simply be the difference between American and English (Brit) perceptions.
"Brotherly love," derived from the Ancient Greek terms φίλος phílos (beloved, dear) and ἀδελφός adelphós (brother, brotherly).
Maybe some romance-language speaker would lend themselves better for the Latin audio than Americans with thick accents
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those accents are very regional English accents.They don't do justice to true latin oronunciation !
I know we don't know what Latin sounded like, but can you all at least go for an Italian or Spanish accent? The gringo accent here is like nails on a chalkboard.
Can't we have Latin in the modern world and translate iuvenes as young people? Surely there are young people of both genders in Philadelphia. What would John C. Traupman say?
Why is youths for iuvenes not acceptable? My idea was that youths would include both male and female young persons, Is there a particular Latin word for female young persons only?
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Is that quat in the recording a mixture of the Latin quot and the American English what?
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The speaker with the thick American accent is very hard to understand and it sounds kind of ridiculous
Why was I marked wrong when I wrote: how many universities and young men are they in Philadelphia?
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I think you got the answer right if you meant to say "How many universities and young men are there in Philadelphia?" I imagine what you think you typed for there was autocorrected to they?
Why is 'Boston', 'Bostonia' and 'Philadelphia', sometimes 'Philadelphiae'?
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It is sometimes locative (in Boston/in Philadelphia). Bostonia=Boston. Bostoniae=in Boston. Philadelphia=Philadelphia. Philadelphiae=in Philadelphia.
To make a city locative, -a becomes -ae, -us/-um becomes -i, thus:
Novum Eboracum=New York. Novi Eboraci=in New York.
The tips suggested that there may be exceptions, but that is the general rule for cities.
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Is this lady mixig quot with what? Is quat an attested (possibly) Germanic pronunciation of quot?
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Wait, why ae and not a in Philadelphia? I'm pretty sure locus ubi are put in ablative, and most times with pronoun in
Its asking me to define words that weve never gine over and i dont like it considering i slecifically stated that i know no latin to begin with
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I keep getting this question wrong because I can't spell PhilAdelphia right in English! Didn't those bloody Romans ever go to anywhere easy to spell! (rant over - thank you!)
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I said: how many univerities and you men are there in philadephia. Is that wrong? DL said so!
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Duo doesn't mark misspellings as wrong unless the misspelled word turns into a word that already exists. You missed out the letter s from universities but that's ok. However, you wrote you men instead of young men" so that would be marked wrong because the word you" already exists and wouldn't be considered as a misspelling.
