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Pedrunn
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of Natal, Brazil
Jul 2001
time: 02:25
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I think a good idea to name our cities after famous Lemurians. And this city i want to congratulate Locutus because of all the effort he did to CTP2 and to all of our DG community. Since he is our moderator and Minister of Diplomacy, the one who write the news, he has showed up ina all the chat until now, have played a major whole in the creation of the constitution, specially the Court article, he is in the hall of fame, ......
So all of us agree in naming the city after him.
Variations of the names are accepted specially if suggested but Locutus. Somethings like "Locutusia", "LocutusLand", "Locutopolis", etc...
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mapfi
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Zurich, Switzerland
Jul 2002
time: 06:25
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nothing against Locutus or you Pedrunn but I find the idea to name our cities after people pretty lame.
I voted no last time, no again.
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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:25
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First of all, I think giving cities the exact same names as posters is very confusing, especially during turn chats (I almost mixed up Pedrunn the city and Pedrunn the poster a few times during the last chat). So if anything, I think a variant on Locutus should be used, not Locutus itself. And I strongly urge Pedrunn to rename our capital to Pedrunnlandia (a name he made up himself a long time ago, if anyone still remembers that  ) or something similar as well.
But like mapfi, I would prefer original names like Xanadu, El Dorado or Lemur City (well, not exactly original, but you get the point ).
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Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Locutamus, Locutatis, Locutant |
 Your Latin is absolutely terrible. That should read Locuti, Locutorum, Locutis, Locutos, Locutis, Locuti (Locutus is a noun  ). If you must make it a verb, it would be Locuti sumus, Locuti estis, Locuti sunt.
In any case, if you must go with poster names, my personal preference would go to a classical Roman name, something like Colonia Locuta Tubantia (which could be shortened to Locuta Tubantia or just Locuta)...
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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:25
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Originally posted by Tamerlin
How many are you? |
At present, the Collective consists of 13549868629304 drones  We speak 26259920 languages, about of dozen of which are Terran in origin
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Locutus, how many languages are you speaking or can you read?  |
Seriously, I speak Twents, Dutch, English and German more or less fluently (more in case of Dutch, less in case of German  ), can understand and to a limited extend express myself in Latin, French and Spanish and Dutch dialects other than Twents (the Low Countries have an incredible variety in dialects) can with some effort more or less read Esperanto, (ancient) Greek, Italian, Portuguese, etc. I'm currently learning Turkish, while Arab, Russian and Mandarin are on my to-do list.
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You are a real well of knowledge, how do you find the time to work, mod, play CtP1 and Ctp2 (single player, MP and DG), moderate, socialize, watch Soccer (eek! You can not imagine how it is difficult for me to write this word), play (and mod?) Birth of the Federation and still improve your culture? |
Gee, if that was all I did, I might actually manage to finish my to-do list one day
On a side note: it's football, not that horrible s-word! 
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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:25
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Yes it is, in combination with esse, then it forms the indicativus praesentis of loqui, which indeed translates as 'to have spoken'. 'Locutus sum' is a verb, 'Locutus' is not. Using 'Locutamus' in Latin to denote 'We have spoken' is like using 'He bathtubs every day' in English to denote 'He takes a bath every day'.
Granted, 'locut-' is indeed the perfect stem for loqui and thus theoretically a verb. However, loqui is a verbum deponentium: a verb which only exists in passive form but still has an active meaning. And since the passive form always uses the auxiliary verb esse (in active or passive form), that kind of limits the options
So Locutus can only be used as a verbal noun, which is still a noun and gets -us/-a/-um or variants as ending, never -o/-amus/-i/-imus or whatever...
But you got the conjugation just fine, although it struck me as odd to use the past tense, present tense (as I did) would have made more sense ('we have spoken' vs 'we had spoken') - I'm not gone yet
Just be glad that English has such mindblowingly little variation when it comes to verbs
Last edited by Locutus on 05-02-2003 at 05:18
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Tamerlin
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Toulouse (South-western France)
Apr 2002
time: 06:25
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Originally posted by Locutus
At present, the Collective consists of 13549868629304 drones We speak 26259920 languages, about of dozen of which are Terran in origin |
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Seriously, I speak Twents, Dutch, English and German more or less fluently (more in case of Dutch, less in case of German ), can understand and to a limited extend express myself in Latin, French and Spanish and Dutch dialects other than Twents (the Low Countries have an incredible variety in dialects) can with some effort more or less read Esperanto, (ancient) Greek, Italian, Portuguese, etc. I'm currently learning Turkish, while Arab, Russian and Mandarin are on my to-do list. |
That's all! 
Are you actually telling us you have been cut off from the Collective? 
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Gee, if that was all I did, I might actually manage to finish my to-do list one day |
When do you sleep? 
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On a side note: it's football, not that horrible s-word! |
You know F******* and S***** (sorry I can't...) are the same and our american friends might be confused if we use the f-word instead of the s-word.
BTW Locutus, as far as I know Birth of the Federation has never been distributed in France and I know nothing of what seems to be a great game. Could you tell me more about it (why not in the Lemuria Café as this is off-topic)? 
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03-02-2003 22:54
, shall we still go with it????
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