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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.
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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.
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those accents are very regional English accents.They don't do justice to true latin oronunciation !
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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
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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?
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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
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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.