Yes! So perfect that Roman!Jeeves is Roman!Bertie's freedman!
I have one minor, silly, and totally pendantic quibble that you can feel free to ignore. I was reading along, quite charmed with the story, but when I came upon the nicknames 'Jul' and 'Luc' it was like hitting an unexpected speedbump. It's just that...um...I teach Latin. And the -us endings on the names are the grammatical case endings that show how the noun (in this case the name) functions in a sentence. Almost all nouns (and all Roman names) always have them. Seeing the case endings missing is *weird* and makes the teacherly half of my brain light up and my right hand twitch for a red pen to scribble some case endings back on.
(On a cultural note, just calling someone by their praenomem (first name) is a sign of great familiarity. e.g. Most people, even most friends, would call Gaius Julius Caesar 'Caesar' or 'Julius Caesar' whereas only those truly closest to him would ever call him Gaius.)
But my obsession with Latin grammar aside, I'm totally squeeing with all my classicist heart about how Jeeves is Tiro to Bertie's Cicero.
*uses the classicist icon of classics in approval*
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Date: 2009-06-29 06:54 am (UTC)I have one minor, silly, and totally pendantic quibble that you can feel free to ignore. I was reading along, quite charmed with the story, but when I came upon the nicknames 'Jul' and 'Luc' it was like hitting an unexpected speedbump. It's just that...um...I teach Latin. And the -us endings on the names are the grammatical case endings that show how the noun (in this case the name) functions in a sentence. Almost all nouns (and all Roman names) always have them. Seeing the case endings missing is *weird* and makes the teacherly half of my brain light up and my right hand twitch for a red pen to scribble some case endings back on.
(On a cultural note, just calling someone by their praenomem (first name) is a sign of great familiarity. e.g. Most people, even most friends, would call Gaius Julius Caesar 'Caesar' or 'Julius Caesar' whereas only those truly closest to him would ever call him Gaius.)
But my obsession with Latin grammar aside, I'm totally squeeing with all my classicist heart about how Jeeves is Tiro to Bertie's Cicero.
*uses the classicist icon of classics in approval*