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scot47



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The toiling masses salute the Great leader Sasha and welcome the introduction of Latin in all schools !
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd like to be first in line for the LFL jobs, please!!
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fluffyhamster



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's time for "A Clockwork Orange", maybe.
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coledavis



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The good thing about Latin is that dullards cannot do it.
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spiral78



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Very Happy
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coledavis



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apart from no native speakers to distort the local market.
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scot47



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Modern school curricula overflow with subjects designed for dullards MEDIA STUDIES for example
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Sashadroogie



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would you lump in Women's Studies too?
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coledavis



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think my next book will be Latin for Dummies.
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