1/ Learning Gujarati is tough. My teacher is lovely & doesn't mean to be impatient, but she hasn't learn a forest language as an adult & is confused by my slowness. "Do you hv any formal schooling?" she asked at one point, puzzled.
Except it should be 'odorat' or it currently says 'you smell'. Also it actually says 'make smelly' rather than smell. I think.
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pardon me, "odorat" would be correct. And I mean, some liberty had to be taken since I'm pretty sure there was no transitive/intransitive sense to the Latin like there was in English "smell" -- or if there was, I didn't know about it.
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Not one that really works for both senses of smell, no. Olfacio is probably closest.
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yeah, I mean, it's just one of those jokes that doesn't really translate well, huh? Olfacio, that's an -io in the 3rd, year ( -> olfacere)? Or is that just a false cognate?
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Its an io, yes.
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I don't suppose it's something as simple as "some root" + facio/-ere, is it?
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Yes. 'Ol' seems to be the smell bit. To make smell.
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Don't suppose it would be "oleum" + "facere"? I mean, I'm sure oils were very much associated with their scents in those days.
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Probably.
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I have flashbacks to Latin classes when I was 13 and remember why I hated it back then. I should've been paying more attention.
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It was absolutely the best thing for me, laying the groundwork both for English and for Esperanto (which I was avidly into for a while). But learning Latin taught me how to learn to communicate. Plus, I got to totally nitpick diplomas and mottos :P
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True story, when I was a civilian nerd with the Calgary Police, our union rep proudly proclaimed he coined a new motto, "NOS COHESUM ET VALESCO" which he claimed meant "we stand together and grow strong. It brought my stridently anti-union office mate no end of joy when I ->
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told him that a much more accurate translation (of this still very very very bad Latin motto) was "we are stuck, and I grow strong". Whatever the Latin phrase for Freudian slip is, insert it here :P
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