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IRL (In Real Life) => General Discussion => Topic started by: besilarius on January 28, 2015, 08:33:31 PM

Title: Pompeiian grafiti
Post by: besilarius on January 28, 2015, 08:33:31 PM
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32276/11-colorful-phrases-ancient-roman-graffiti

Some things (and phrases) never change.
Title: Re: Pompeiian grafiti
Post by: MetalDog on January 28, 2015, 08:43:15 PM
There is a link in the article, towards the bottom for some NSFW graffiti.  A lot of self promotion and pooping.  Not always in that order.
Title: Re: Pompeiian grafiti
Post by: LongBlade on January 28, 2015, 09:08:34 PM
Nice. We could use some of those around here.

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Title: Re: Pompeiian grafiti
Post by: Cyrano on January 28, 2015, 10:32:41 PM
A hojillion years ago when I was a Latin nebbish, one of the great prizes for completing Latin IV was a two-week session studying what was then called "Forbidden Pompeii".  It came along with a vocabulary sheet to assist with some of the more, erm, irregular nouns and verbs...particularly verbs...and well trumped the joy of pubescent discovery associated with translating an unbowlderized Ovid.

Good times...good times...

Semper Ubi  Sub Ubi...

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)