Nike -- the rambling was very nice to read, actually, and I, heartily agreeing, thank you for it.
I've only just started Latin (starting year 3 in two weeks), and I had never seen "culpa" as a noun that I can remember . . . at the same, it was one of the first verbs that I learned, so "culpa me" seemed more natural to me than "mea culpa." I really didn't even think about it -- which was obviously the problem.
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
NO ONE makes fun of MY foreign-language study!
Oh, wait. Yes, they do. Anyway...
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Well, it
is really easy to make fun of a language -- keeping in mind the nation that uses it -- in which the word for "thanks" is basically the same as the English word "mercy."