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LATIN APP COMES TO LIFE By Julia Judson-Rea
Reading Vergil or Latin poetry and need help with the analysis? There’s an app for that. And senior Sydney Wood created it. The app is a Latin parser that imports small sections of a Latin text, splits it into parts, and then offers an analysis. Wood’s parser isn’t a translator like Google Translate. Rather, it is a tool for Latin students to help them better understand and analyze a text. In Latin, “there are lots of different definitions for one word,” Sydney explained. “Google Translate just chooses one and, grammatically, it’s not always correct because there are so many options in Latin. My program gives you the grammar options. Mine is more work than Google Translate would be, but compiles resources for a person translating to have everything right there. It lets the student use their Latin skills; you Sydney Wood, a senior, is a lifer at PC.
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