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Login/Join to ParticipateBRONZE Member since Feb 2004
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Total posts: 319
Poem Time! (sing along, Lyra)
Latin is a dead language
as you can plainly see
It killed off all the Romans,
and now it's killing me!
That's all- just thought I'd share.
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
BRONZE Member since Jan 2001
Sporadically Prodigal
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Total posts: 2758
am, um em, i, isti, it....
ahh those were the days.
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BRONZE Member since Feb 2004
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Total posts: 319
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
It sucks but looks interesting on your CV. not many people can say they have studied it. May just give you that edge over the other aplicants.
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if you think that our kiss was all in the lips, come on you got it all wrong man, and if you think that our dance was all in the hips then, oh well, do the twist -The White Stripes
Deleteif you think that our kiss was all in the lips, come on you got it all wrong man, and if you think that our dance was all in the hips then, oh well, do the twist -The White Stripes
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crazy bastards
Anyone read Ovid? or Cicero? or Caesar? Our teacher said that u cant learn Latin out of schoolbooks, but that u have to study it from ancient texts. one kid got so frustrated one class that he threw a dictionary at the teacher.....
i changed schools after i gloriously failed french and Latin one year.
"is optimism in austria just a lack of information?"
-Alfred Dorfer
GOLD Member since May 2001
HOP Mad Doctor
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Total posts: 13920
People say, "if you know Latin, you can speak French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian!"
Um...no. Doesn't quite work that way. I speak Spanish and I can't understand, read, or speak Latin. Or any of the other Romance languages except for Portugese. And even that takes a few weeks of immersion.
I don't get it. Why not study a language that people actually speak?
-Mike )'(
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"A buckuht 'n a hooze!" -Valura
BRONZE Member since Feb 2004
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Total posts: 319
We're reading Caesar right now- soooooooooooo boooooooooooooooring! All we do in class now is translate stories- it was much better when we were at least learning new things, not just doing the same thing every day.
Lyra, you forgot about his foreign shoes that he talked about every day. It was really bad when he came back as a sub for the class full of kids who had gotten him fired.
Only 25 days left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's pretty much the only thing that's keeping me going till the summer, and then we're free!!!!!!!!!!!
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
SILVER Member since Jul 2003
not with cactus
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devo...
Total posts: 2052
Why study Latin?
People say, "if you know Latin, you can speak French, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian!"
Um...no. Doesn't quite work that way. I speak Spanish and I can't understand, read, or speak Latin. Or any of the other Romance languages except for Portugese. And even that takes a few weeks of immersion.
i think it only works one way around, because latin is the language all those other lnguages stem from. so you have latin at the root, and from the root its relatively easy to work down from the root towards another language using latin as the basis. (im thinking of a kind of tree diagram in my head now)
having said that i speak english badly and french even worse, infact terribly. so im not really the person to talk about language but thats how i understand it...
plus its knowledge which cant be bad?
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
Yes, as a matter of fact, i do use fire poi. Why do you ask?
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which i cant remember
its translation is...
Everything sounds wise when said in latin
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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HEY, I COULD SPIN THAT!
BRONZE Member since Feb 2004
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Total posts: 319
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
GOLD Member since May 2001
HOP Mad Doctor
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Total posts: 13920
-Mike )'(
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
"A buckuht 'n a hooze!" -Valura
My undergrad degree major is in Old English
and I just love to read the old stories and poems in the original form
My partner uses latin all the time in his work (plant names
)and woohoo for finishing exams Trillian
Lyra - sounds like you had a terrible introduction to Latin
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BRONZE Member since Feb 2004
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Total posts: 319
Here, Lyra, have a couple of these:
and a giant "I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
if you think that our kiss was all in the lips, come on you got it all wrong man, and if you think that our dance was all in the hips then, oh well, do the twist -The White Stripes
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