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A new mudskipper species was named in 1995 by Lee et. al. as Periophthalmus magnuspinnatus. We recently found out that maybe this species has been living in China for years. At the first sight at the name, it’s hard to discover the problem, actually at first, I thought it’s “magnu-spinnatus” (with a very rare connecting [...]
I did a minor update to the Phonetica Latinae site. Before, the IPA symbols were displayed by IE as a square in the pages. I did a bit experiment to find out the reason, it seems that IE 6 has a wrong interpretation( or inconsistent with Firefox or Opera) of font family lists. For example, [...]
Came across this blog about this Latin song, the Chinese lyric seemed not right, so I did it myself. Full of mistakes I guess: The Mass – Era Semper crescis You always thrive Aut decrescis or decline Vita detestabilis The detestable life Nunc obdurat now it’s hard Et tunc curat and then it procure Ludo [...]
After 2 weeks writing, search and recording, the Phonetica Latinae (Latin pronunciation) tutorial is finished! === UPDATE === Now the tutorial is available for download now, you can download it here. The idea was initiated when I heard some these bad pronunciations over and over again in the botany class, zoology class etc. It surprises [...]
Last week, my English teacher Reza assigned us the task of making a presentation on the ancient British history: Celtic Tribes Roman Britain Anglo-Saxons Viking invasion Norman conquest Our group was assigned to the Anglo-Saxon period. Actually I’m more interesting in the Roman period, since I’ve been studying Latin, but never mind. In this morning, [...]
Text: Niobe et leberi sui (NIOBE AND HER CHILDREN) Apoll et Dina erant liber Ltnæ. Is Thbn sacra crbra parbant. Oppidn ambant Ltnam et lbers eius. Id superbæ rginæ erat molestum. Cr, inquit, Ltnæ et liberis sacra partis? Dus libers habet Ltna; quattuordecim habe ego. Ubi sunt mea sacra? Ltona is verbs irta libers sus [...]
