<p>Si los riesgos del mar considerara,
ninguno se embarcara; si antes viera
bien su peligro, nadie se atreviera
ni al bravo toro osado provocara.
Si del fogoso bruto ponderara
la furia desbocada en la carrera
el jinete prudente, nunca hubiera
quien con discreta mano lo enfrenara.
Pero si hubiera alguno tan osado
que, no obstante el peligro, al mismo Apolo
quisiese gobernar con atrevida
mano el rA?pido carro en luz baA'ado,
todo lo hiciera, y no tomara sAlo
estado que ha de ser toda la vida.</p>
<p>Haha, if (when - must will the fat envelope into mailbox by brute mental force, if nothing else) we're at Princeton next fall, you'll regret you offered - and probably so will my parents, once they get my credit card bill. </p>
<p>I really am jealous - shopping in Michigan is so limited. There's one excellent mall, and online order - that's it. </p>
<p>Translation, Encomium? The Spanish looks so pretty and exotic to me - and completely uninteligible.</p>
<p>Ok, rought, non-metrically sensitive translation:</p>
<p>If one were to consider the risks of the sea,
he would never embark; if one were to see before his danger,
he would never dare, nor would he provoke the brave, bold bull</p>
<p>If the horseman were to ponder the uncontrollable fury in the race; there would never be anyone who would, with prudent hand, mount the horse</p>
<p>But if there were someone so brave that, however the danger, would want to guide that same Apolo, bathed in light, in speeding chariot,
he would do it all, and would not take on the state that everyone has all of their lives.</p>
<p>(wow, I suck at translation; I guess it makes more sense in my mind...I've never translated spanish before)</p>
<p>I would never be able to give such a good translation for a French poem, so I'm very impressed.</p>
<p>I really like this part- "If the horseman were to ponder the uncontrollable fury in the race; there would never be anyone who would, with prudent hand, mount the horse"</p>
<p>This is really what I love about foreign language/literature study. There's just something about the original that's so hard to express in your own language without something getting lost! Knowing a foreign language is like a gift to a whole new world, as an English speaker I have access to English literature, but as a Spanish and Latin student, I will have access to the great works of two whole new languages. It makes me giddy.</p>
<p>You should consider taking some lit. translations classes if you go to Pton next year. They have an awesome translations department. :)</p>
<p>hahahaha i love this forum! hahahahah </p>
<p>i just love it. it makes me laugh. i have created this fantastically hysterical persona.</p>
<p>that's exactly why i'm excited about french</p>
<p>i think the thing about online is, one can say a single thing that gets blown out of proportion and encompasses everything. i guess that can happen in face-to-face interactions too but it seems, at least based on my own experiences, to happen more frequently online</p>
<p>spelling "proportion" was a major struggle for me. a strange question: are "struggle" and/or "struggle-fest" really widely used nouns at your school? what about the adjective "hardcore"? lately they seem to have taken over mine, so i was just wondering</p>
<p>where is everyone? i'm feeling lonely, and like i might have to start my homework... oh dear, what a travesty</p>
<p>never seen "struggle-fest" before but I love "hardcore" </p>
<p>Homework is making me physically sick. Blah</p>
<p>uck, the killer homework nights are the worst. good luck with yours - i send all my homeworking cells over the internet to you, since mine aren't in use whatsoever.</p>
<p>"hardcore" is definitely one of my verbal crutches</p>
<p>Hello kids - so I'm sticking around here waiting for the influx of postings that occurs around this time..........and there isn't any!</p>
<p>I can't take it anymore.</p>
<p>P.S. Why do you have school tomorrow? It's veterans day! I have off, so I am going to visit family in Greenwich and not coming back till Sunday. 5 day weekend, woohoo.</p>
<p>FIVE day weekend?
<em>faints</em>
I don't have any days off until Thanksgiving. Hardcore. Except, in the bad way.</p>
<p>FIVE DAY WEEKEND?!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I don't even know what to say.</p>
<p>Yea seriously, that's not even a weekend anymore, that's a week.</p>
<p>i have no hw tonight since tomorrow's v. day</p>
<p>I don't have any days off until Thanksgiving either. <em>kicks her school's calendar</em></p>
<p>That seriously is a week. I don't even know what I'd do with myself, except, oh wait, do all the mounds of HW the sadistic teachers would assign and catch up on the holdover mound still unfinished.</p>
<p>Edit: ec, you have v-day off too? if so, unfair! <em>goes into 2-yr-old phase</em></p>
<p>sometimes i think about being an AP _____ teacher and doing sadistic things to my children (laughs to self)</p>
<p>I know, I have all these great ideas about how to get revenge if I was a teacher. Like, midterm would be pass/fail one question: you'd come out into the hallway and draw it from a jar, to boot.</p>
<p>That could quite possibly drive me to commit suicide if any of my teachers did that.</p>
<p>That brings me to a question. If you could teach any AP class, what would it be?</p>
<p>I'd probably go for Latin but I have insufficient knowledge for that right now, so I'd say</p>
<p>English.</p>
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