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scot47
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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The toiling masses salute the Great leader Sasha and welcome the introduction of Latin in all schools ! |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I'd like to be first in line for the LFL jobs, please!! |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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You guys teach Latin, I'm going to push for KIL (Klingon as an Intergalactic Language). That gives even a Vulcan's, let alone a Tribble's, brain a reaaal good workout. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Of course, Latin is an excellent start to understanding English vocabulary. But another lesser known value is that it prepares you for learning Russian grammar. One has not lived until one has had to navigate through that : ) And after the world takeover, that's just what you'll have to do, mu haw haw haw! |
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PeterBar
Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 145 Location: La France profonde
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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It's time for "A Clockwork Orange", maybe. |
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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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I don't quite see the case for Latin as opposed to any of the modern derivative languages, for example French. If you learn one of those, you learn similar structures which prepare you - to some extent - for Russian grammar. |
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VietCanada
Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Posts: 590
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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I selected Latin as an elective my first year of high school. I like science. A couple months later I got a letter informing me that since I was the only one who made that choice the Latin class was canceled.
IIRC I opted for home-ec and learned to cook a steak and bake a potato. Buttering both sides of a slab of beef and cutting through the fat at the correct intervals to prevent the item from curling, hence cooking unevenly was an equitable trade off IMHO. Don't get me started on the potato.
A private moment with a perfect steak and baked potato slathered with sour cream and butter has given me much more joy than explaining the impact of Gaussian geometry on Cosmology and humankind's perception of reality to the great unwashed.
The Latin figures in there somewhere but having been deprived of studying it I'll never know precisely. But I do know the joy of customized animal flesh and tubers prepared with a tame beast's lactation derivatives. |
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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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That was a truly weird (and wonderful) reply. Yes, this experience of learning Latin and then being hoofed off the course has happened to quite a few people, sometimes because of economic considerations and otherwise economic (it's all too old school tie and old hat type reasoning). I studied in a very happy group of Latin students (happy isn't usually a word I associate with my schooling) and our class was stopped after a couple of years. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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The good thing about Latin is that dullards cannot do it. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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a tame beast's lactation derivatives
One of my oil and gas industry execs once couldn't think of the word 'butter.' He described it as the oil you get from a cow. |
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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
The good thing about Latin is that dullards cannot do it. |
Dullards have trouble with all sorts of things. Again, what makes Latin different? |
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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Apart from no native speakers to distort the local market. |
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scot47
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Modern school curricula overflow with subjects designed for dullards MEDIA STUDIES for example |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Would you lump in Women's Studies too? |
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coledavis
Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1838
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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I think my next book will be Latin for Dummies. |
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