Post #2693332
2026-04-13 07:57 UTC
Lots of input already, thx! 🤩
I'd like to check the sentence structure, as I read "keep" like A:
A. to keep or hold an object *in a particular state* (e.g., "keep him calm"), vs.
B. to simply "keep" an object in your possession or maintain it (secret-ly & safe-ly)
This Spanish edition changed the whole structure :)
Would love more translations!
So like... does Latin have an accusative particle for "it"? Or can we just go like...
"OCCULTUM TENE, TUTUM TENE"
or
"ARCANUM TUTUMQUE SERVA"
or...?
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@chrysn@chaos.social 2026-04-13 08:08
@alexglow@chaos.social It has a pronoun you can use for explicitness: is/ea/id. But in this case, as @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al, there is also the group hic(/haec/hoc), iste and ille for "this one here / myself", "that one next to me" (often negative, as in "he did it!") and "that one over there", of which the ring would probably be a "hoc". CC'ing @baeroline@mastodon.social who I hope will correct me as she knows better.