Category Archives: Latin Grammar

Latin Syllabification and Accentuation

Posted on Thursday: June 19, 2014 by Michael Hendry

As part of my larger project (QLTP), one of the things I’ve been working on in the last few months is software to divide a Latin word into syllables, determine which ones are short, which long by nature, and which … Continue reading →

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A Founding Father of the Oral Latin Movement?

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

The pseudonymous ‘Michael Blowhard’ of 2Blowhards was recommending Maupassant the week before last. Inspired by his enthusiasm, I checked out a collection of short stories, one of which turned out to be very pertinent to (of all things) Latin teaching … Continue reading →

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Ludus Elegiacus

Posted on Sunday: October 30, 2005 by Michael Hendry

In 1937, a Latin teacher named L. E. Eyres published his “Ludus Elegiacus” in Greece & Rome (pages 56-57 and 155). It is a set of twenty-five epigrams in elegiac couplets, the first five of four lines each, the rest … Continue reading →

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Two Jokes In Chekhov

Posted on Thursday: September 8, 2005 by Michael Hendry

Some purely verbal jokes work equally well in many languages. Here is a paragraph of Chekhov’s one-page squib, “From a Retired Teacher’s Notebook”: The words ‘proposition’ and ‘conjunction’ make schoolgirls modestly lower their eyes and blush, but the terms ‘organic’ … Continue reading →

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