Need A Latin Translation For A Title

[jourdain2]

Right, my Writing Group have set a challenging task for a short story this week - the Norton-Disney Do-decahedron, specifically re. who made it, who used it and how? Short, fiction story required by Friday!

I've done a lot of research for background and I've dreamed up a story (taken me 2 days and much wandering).

I would like my title to be a Latin version of:-

The Truthful Sybil.

A swiftish response from out Latin scholars would be appreciated - my Latin isn't up to it.

Thanks all.

 

 

[jourdain2]

Wow! What a lot of interesting and useful answers.  Thank you all so much - now I have the agony of choice.   :)

Re. Latin being useful, as I grew up and learned more about its use in structuring language I became more interested in it.  I then met a retired teacher of French and latin and we became friends.  She convinced me of its utility in developing logical thought processes. So much so that we ended up sending our daughters to an independent school which taught Latin - purely because no L.A. school did.  

They've both said how useful the effect of 3 yrs. Latin was, even though neither of them took it at GCSE.

[bednobs]

sorry to jump on your thread Jourdain - it just seemed apposite as i had a letter from the school and it was front of my mind

[jourdain2]

You're very welcome, bednobs, hope my last answer may have helped to clarify your thoughts.  :)

[Auntypoll]

Why does anyone think these days their children would benefit from wasting precious  time at school learning a dead language? This is 2024 and you should look to educate your children for skills they will need in the future, not some elitist subject that has no relevance today. I studied Latin for two wasted years and it didn't help me one bit in learning the three languages I speak fluently.

as for having to know maths to get by is rubbish. I failed my maths dismally but can manage to do four sets of accounts and tax returns on a spread sheet, among other things. You don't need to know coding to use a computer so why would you need maths to use a spread sheet or Calculator. 

[ToraToraTora]

Latin is the language on which many others are based. Latin helps me understand a lot of others languages. Now Welsh for example would be a dead language.

[ToraToraTora]

you can to arithmetic with a spread sheet, to do maths you need to know the method.

[jourdain2]

TTT is correct in this Auntypoll.  Both my daughters admit that the processes of thought which it inculcated has been beneficial in very many ways.

[Auntypoll]

Jourdain can you explain that please because all we ever did was conjugate verbs and translate paragraphs

[ToraToraTora]

Equum ad aquam ducere potes...

[Auntypoll]

Tora that is my point I don't need maths to function in 2024

[ToraToraTora]

You need maths if you are doing anything beyond simple arithmetic. Accounting is simple arithmetic.

[hellywelly4]

Latin is a language as dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans, and now it's killing me.

Amo Amas Ama. Amamus Amatis,
Bellum, Bellum, Bellum and all that.  🤪

[hellywelly4]

Oops, pressed send by mistake. I was trying to remember my Latin. Our teacher was called Miss Mayhew. We referred to her as Miss Mildew.

[Auntypoll]

I'm still waiting for Jourdain to explain how it helped her and her children

[DTCwordfan]

Helly, you mean Domina Robigo?

[hellywelly4]

You've lost me DTC.  Sorry to highjack your thread jourdain.

[ToraToraTora]

20:06 Just because you are too dim to see value in something do not denegrate those that do. My Latin helps me read any of the romance languages on sight even when my actual knowledge is rudimentary.

[DTCwordfan]

helly - Mrs. Mildew in Latin.

[jourdain2]

Well, for a start off, they learned to order their thoughts - I shouldn't have to explain all this really.  I was a teacher and colleagues from various disciplines acknowledged its usefulness, it was a 'gimme'.  They didn't need  to do exams in it, it was the brain training.

My younger daughter achieved the distinction of a comment from her Latin teacher that 'It was the first time she'd laughed out loud at a Latin essay'.  Elder daughter went on to take a degree at Durham in pure Chemistry and the younger is now a Maths teacher - so the time it took up obviously wasn't wasted or counter-productive.

Elder one also learned French and Russian.  Latin was very useful for Russian, because there is also no word for 'the' and it is very similar in the way it works. Younger one had French and German.  Both languages demand understanding of parts of speech, tenses etc.. A big problem I found when teaching French to Ex-pats, was that first I had to teach them English grammar.

Does this help you to understand why we impoverished ourselves  (no holidays, then a trailer tent, then an old, damp caravan) to ensure that they had a basis of Latin, Auntypoll?

[ToraToraTora]

20:43 nice post Jourdain, uneducated people tend to get nasty when things are pointed out that are beyond their reasoning.