Avatars :o)

[Iceheart]

Very gloomy!...reminds me a bit of the movie "Dogma"...

 

[DeadWinterDead]

Oh great, Dogma...

Well, you're very pretty.

 

[Fjelltussa]

@MeaCulpa: The avatar is very beautiful! You seem very artistic. -And poetic as well! So what about your nick? There's a nick-thread here somewhere as well, but I don't care to dig it up right now.. Limited time here..

 

[MeaCulpa]

Too lazy to dig up the nick thread.. Mea Culpa means "my fault",
it's taken from Catholic liturgy. Been using it for a good while on
different forums. Doesn't really have a story behind it.

 

[YMIR]

@MeaCulpa: Mea Culpa is also a really cool intro of the album Prison of Desire of After Forever!
Are you Catholic btw?

 

[MeaCulpa]

Nah, I'm not Catholic. I just like the sound of mea culpa.. It's one
of the few Latin phrases I know. Too much grammar for my taste.


"mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"

 

[YMIR]

"mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"

 

[DeadWinterDead]

Whatever that means...

My fault, my ?????? fault... What's maxima mean? All?

 

[MeaCulpa]

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa means "through my fault, through my most grievous fault".

(Not my translation).

 

[TrueBeliever]

I don't see where the through comes from...

mea = my
culpa = fault (I assume)

I guess just not a very literal translation, the preposition for 'through' is not there. Not grammatically perfect, but who really cares I suppose.

 

[MeaCulpa]

Literally mea culpa means my fault, that's right.
So mea culpa, mea maxima culpa would be my fault, my biggest
fault or something.
The other translation is how the phrase is translated in liturgy
I think. Or the corresponding phrase might be a better way to
put it.

 

[DeadWinterDead]

Well, I don't really understand Latin. So, I guess it's ok. Heh.

 

[TrueBeliever]

Latin is rarely translated exactly when it is translated into english.

 

[Blackspirit]

Originally posted by TrueBeliever
Latin is rarely translated exactly when it is translated into english.

Says the one who has "I am the dog"
in Latin in his sig! Lol >)))

 

[The Nomad]

Latin grammar is quite different from English. The grammatical function of a word in a sentence (object, verb, adjective) is based much more on suffix than on word order, and thus is more subjected to context (although not as much as many Far-Eastern languages).

 

[MeaCulpa]

There's a reason why I always had a hard time with Latin...

 

[TrueBeliever]

Yea, there is a ridiculous amount of endings you have to memorize, unfortunately i still have to take it.

 

[Somber Soul]

What Nomad said: Latin is an inflected language. So word-order doesn't matter much, like to a lesser extent in German. English, however, is a non-inflected language. You don't have to remember cases and the corresponding inflections. But as a price, you have to stick to a certain, very fixed word-order.

 

[dimensionidol]

hey MEA CULPA ...
your avatar remind me a lot of diamanda galas stuffs!

do you know her work?

i am artistically in love with her

she is one of the greatest of all!

 

[Belial]

Originally posted by TrueBeliever
Yea, there is a ridiculous amount of endings you have to memorize, unfortunately i still have to take it.

Cool Avatar.