g****d 发帖数: 3461 | 1 Nulli se dict mulier mea nubere malle
quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.
Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
in vento et rapida scribere oported aqua.
(Catullus 70; meter: elegiac couplet)
On Woman's Inconstancy.
Never, my woman oft says, with any of men will she mate be,
Save wi' my own very self, ask her though Jupiter deign!
Says she: but womanly words that are spoken to desireful lover
Ought be be written on wind or upon water the runs.
(I guess this was t | g****d 发帖数: 3461 | 2
The purpose of studying grammar and doing grammatical analysis
is not to be a master in grammar. The very goal of learning
the rules is to forget the rules. Surely, there is always
an aural/oral aspect of language learning even with a language
like Latin whose spoken form has long been lost. But that doesn't mean
one shouldn't enjoy learning grammar or begin with grammar
when one forays into a new language.
I do believe that the grammatical analysis I am doing
is a significantly slowed down |
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