Just sounds wrong.I wonder if ‘It’s I’ sounds pompous to a native.
‘It is I’ (without contraction) sounds pompous.
‘It’s me’ sounds normal.
Just sounds wrong.I wonder if ‘It’s I’ sounds pompous to a native.
Pompous, no. A line from a Zorro or Robin Hood movie, yes. I would laugh at someone that said that; I wouldn't think it pompous, unless he/she has their nose up in the air or a poodle in their arms.‘It is I’ (without contraction) sounds pompous.
Well, exactly. You’d laugh, because it’s so pompous that the person couldn’t possibly be saying it without deliberate irony.Pompous, no. A line from a Zorro or Robin Hood movie, yes. I would laugh at someone that said that;
Melica -> mel? Similis verbo "dulcis"?Grammatica latina = crux ac via doloris
Compositio melica latina = maxima crux ac via longa arduaque doloris
Oxford Latin Dictionary 1982Melica -> mel? Similis verbo "dulcis"?
My dictionary is packed away right now.
Quasus, I was referring to scale of difficulty. Composing poetry in latin (with correct metrics, rhymes, top-quality poetic expressions and literary figures, etc) is the most difficult to achieve competence (surpasses even prose composition Cicero style) - and you know it.One needs to be a poet at least.
O Di Immortales! Only a mathematician could have said such thing. Quasus, obiously you have not understood my point.I don’t know it, I’m not a poet. I think one has to be a poet so as to compose poetry. If one needs just something that matches formal criteria, it may be more reasonable to write a computer programme.
You mean Latin or etymological inquiry?Other than that, it's pretty useless.