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- "Longum iter facio."
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For the good of the users' ears you guys could do us the favour to change these audio files that have some problem (like this one that has a strong/very-loud pop in the middle of it).
Does anybody else suffer from the bad pronunciation? It's really distracting
I missed this one because the speaker seemed to "swallow" the final sound of the last word. I heard "faciunt" instead of "facio," and I wrote "Longum iter faciunt." Correct Latin, right? Just not what the speaker said...
Yes, no difference between simple present and progressive present in Latin (unless you use nunc?)
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Latin does occasionally translate into very clunky English (like this example). I presume that make/go on a journey both have the same meaning
- 270
Yes, we would say 'take a journey' or 'go on a journey' where Romans would say 'make a journey.'
- 923
Means to travel, to go somewhere.
There is likely some more nuance than that, it's not an expression I use often other than something like I have to make a journey to the store.
Thanks for answering. So, is there any difference between make a journey and go on a journey ?
Yes, there's a difference. No, it's not interchangeable.
https://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-travel-trip-and-journey/
Travel
Going to another place (in general).
Journey
One piece of travel (going from one place to another) usually a long distance. No return implied.
Trip
The act of going to another place (often for a short period of time) and returning.
USUALLY long distance?! Does that mean not always?! Just usually. ...So sometimes it's only as long as just a regular trip?
According to ...espresso English dot net... Seriously?!
I agree. As a native English speaker (UK), I have never heard or used such an expression.
- 700
The o of longum sounds like an English o, almost as in Out, and not like au in authority, it Italian or other romance "o".
How should it be properly said?
- 700
I hear more Langum than Longum.
Are there different Latin pronunciation standards like Italian or American?
I think it should sound like the "o" in Romance language, at any rate, in classical or church Latin.
But, a journey is always long (it's part of the definition), I guess it's a really long journey here.
Well, actually, back in the day -- you know when people used to "make journeys" (i.e., in the 1500's) -- a "journey" was LITERALLY a one day's trip, not a trip around the world, mind ye. So seeing it as a long trip is a bit anachronistic. Just throwing it out there for all ye definition wizards.
