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Weekly Latin #3 – Forcellini, Updated Recipe
Many things are brewing Latin-wise, which also means there isn't a lot I can share right now. So for this week's article, I thought I'd share something that has been growing more and more useful to me, since the point of these articles are to provide some sort of...
Weekly Latin #2 – University, Cake Recipe, Roman Ruins
The professor gave me a Phaedrus poem and asked me whether I understood it. I replied yes, save for these four words. If you gave me a dictionary, I would be able to fully give back the meaning. I am the dictionary, he replied. Having asked the four unknown words, I...
How to Cook Palacsintatorta, The Best Cake There Is, but in Latin
Since it is my birthday today, I just thought I'd share with you all the recipe of my birthday cake, but in Latin. Enjoy. Quōmodo palacsintatorta Alcōris factum est? Haec est fōrmula quā palacsintatorta coquerī potest. Quid est palacsintatorta? Est genus cibōrum...
Today is My Birthday. Here’s a Cake Recipe, but in Latin
Really nothing to add besides the recipe of the most amazing cake in the world now available, immortalised by the undying language of our civilisation. Enjoy.
Explaining Latin Adjectives and the Present Active Participle Using Hungarian Logic
Recently, we came across a difficult bit in a Latin text with the word permittēns standing in a weird place in the sentence. While the true source of a problem wasn't a misunderstanding of the word, on the journey towards understanding I did figure out a good way to...
András Alkor
András Alkor was born
His writings consist mainly of short stories both in Hungarian and in English. You’ll find most of his English pieces in different corners of the internet.
Currently, he does mentor work at a high school in his hometown.
Saltatrix quaedam quas novi pelliculam ad Facebook attulit, ubi corpus suum exercitabat ut alii quoque cum ea exercitarent.
Hoc modo, exempli gratia, societati tuae adiuves.
Pater iam fortasse corona afflictus est. Incerti sumus at signa sunt coronae, die Lunae inspicietur.
Heri autem contubernalis convivium aderat multis cum hominibus. Quam secura eam censetis?
Quid putatis? Lingua Anglica mihi pulchra videtur, praesertim si cantetur.
English isn’t a pretty language.
It’s precise, surgical, and versatile.
But pretty it ain’t.
You REALLY have to tweeze it to make it sing.