Friday, October 11, 2013

Ovid's Metamorphoses 1:299f

and where today graceful goats grazed on grasses here now ungainly seal cows park their carcasses

my translation of
"et modo qua graciles gramen carpsere capellae,
nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae.

Saturday, October 05, 2013

fagoptt and shawm sounds

Lola likes those
fagott and shawm sounds
on old Bugis Street

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugis_Street_(film)
#LGBT #senryu #Lqw
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Fagott

shawm senryu

shawm, also known,
 among the Latinatti, 
           as calamellus

Thursday, October 03, 2013

some English Cognates from Latin

Latin pello, pellere, pulsus: push, drive
Latin Vello, vellere, vulsus: pull, pluck

compulsion
convulsion
revulsion
repulsion
avulsion
pulsion
emulsion
evulsion
expulsion
divulsion
impulsion 
propulsion
retropulsion