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- "Silvas igne delent."
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Isso é o que está acontecendo atualmente na floresta amazônica no Brasil. :-(
Same here... I read it happened in Russia too, and also Sub-Saharan Africa.
Well, so says Environment Minister Ricardo Salles. I'm more prone to believing INPE. Maybe the government asked NASA to release some placifying news. Maybe it's been burning more than normal over the past 15 years. Did you read the whole article?
No reason for psittaci (double t, single c by the way) to destroy forests!
On the topic, are there pronunciation laws that make learning which consonants are doubled (as there are in Italian)? I would think that the i before the double t is long, as is the tt itself.
Idk why they don't have an icon on this page to play the recording. It would be very useful. I have mentioned it before. At any rate, I went back and hear only two. Maybe they took care of it because of your report.
In general, a lot of the speakers are pronouncing "del-lent," as if the first "e" were in a closed syllable, instead of being the long e ("day"). I can't remember if this recording was an example of that. (I hope I wasn't wrong about the ending -ent; and if it sounds correct now, that's all to the good!)
Why is it wrong without 'THE'? Are we talking about some specific, well-known forests? English is not my mother tongue. Can anyone explain why 'THE' is so needed here? Please)))
Of course, in Latin terms, "We destroy forests with fire" is fine; there's nothing wrong with this translation, in either Latin or English.
Once more Duo is inconstant! By fire or by the fire are both correct
I think this is an English thing:
if the verb were passive, "by" would sound correct: "The forests are destroyed by fire."
But, since we have an active verb with an understood subject ("they"), "with" seems better in English: "They destroy the forests with fire ." (I think you could also say, "They destroy the forests by means of fire .")
Both are English translations of the ablative of means structure, in Latin.
