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Is it time to bring back Latin?
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I'm all for learning new languages.
A lot (if not most) of English was founded on Latin and French so why not?
As a country we're very lazy with languages, becoming increasingly more so. It's part of why we don't get maximum benefit from free movement of people within the EU. |
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Having said that Nil illegitumus carborundum springs to mind. Wheter it's kosher or not i don't know.
We posted at the same time.
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That means we have to make a wish, the same wish, doesn't it?
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By *icketysplitsWoman
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Having said that Nil illegitumus carborundum springs to mind. Wheter it's kosher or not i don't know.
We posted at the same time.
That means we have to make a wish, the same wish, doesn't it?
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Cum voles super stellam... |
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"Tienes cabello rubia y ojos azules 
Start your own Liquorice thread. And no, not Haribo's. "
lol yes with the haribos there, by the way it means she has blonde hair and blue eyes. |
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"One of my fav aphorisms come from the Roman poet Catullus. He wrote:
"I fell in to love like a cockroach in to a basin."
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Jesus, those Roman poets were fluent in English weren't they.
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"Tienes cabello rubia y ojos azules
Start your own Liquorice thread. And no, not Haribo's. lol yes with the haribos there, by the way it means she has blonde hair and blue eyes."
Then it would be tiene. So none of that sentence was really correct  |
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"One of my fav aphorisms come from the Roman poet Catullus. He wrote:
"I fell in to love like a cockroach in to a basin."
Jesus, those Roman poets were fluent in English weren't they.
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I spare you the bother of Google for ease of laughing. |
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"Tienes cabello rubia y ojos azules
Start your own Liquorice thread. And no, not Haribo's. lol yes with the haribos there, by the way it means she has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Then it would be tiene. So none of that sentence was really correct "
lol I typed the tiener conjunction wrong there, way too quick, meant tienes, but although the sentence is right there with blonde hair and blue eyes. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Everyone going mad on Google now trying to translate stuff ?
Not exactly going mad but it's much easier than getting up, getting my Latin dictionary and remembering the declensions. "
maybe text speak is better after all
wtf is a declension?
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da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
Fragment from one of my favourite Catullus poems. The rest of it is good too(and no, Lesbian was not gay-she was his mistress) |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
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"I think we should all learn an alien language...but not Klingon
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Ego sum ego sum quae modo exposuimus cuidam loquaci femina parva os.
Loquens Fab fuit ultima lingua habui discere. Quod erat a me alienum puto |
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It's a pointless language that nobody ever used!
Language evolves, what you think is English 200 years ago you'd have been considered texters
Shakespeare would have considered you as heretics
And the welsh still do |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
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"It's a pointless language that nobody ever used!
Language evolves, what you think is English 200 years ago you'd have been considered texters
Shakespeare would have considered you as heretics
And the welsh still do "
Those Romans spoke a lot of Greek.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's a pointless language that nobody ever used!
Language evolves, what you think is English 200 years ago you'd have been considered texters
Shakespeare would have considered you as heretics
And the welsh still do
Those Romans spoke a lot of Greek.
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Greek was the standard language of Romans.
In fact as bizarre as it sounds most Finnish people speak Swedish! |
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I learned Latin at school. I remember some really well as we had a highly strung mad teacher, which helped etch it into my head. It's useful.
More language training as standard in schools would be ideal. Latin would be a great option. |
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"I think we should all learn an alien language...but not Klingon
Ego sum ego sum quae modo exposuimus cuidam loquaci femina parva os.
Loquens Fab fuit ultima lingua habui discere. Quod erat a me alienum puto"
quasimodowasawoman? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's a pointless language that nobody ever used!
Language evolves, what you think is English 200 years ago you'd have been considered texters
Shakespeare would have considered you as heretics
And the welsh still do
Those Romans spoke a lot of Greek.
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Greek was the standard language of Romans.
In fact as bizarre as it sounds most Finnish people speak Swedish!"
The people of Belgium don't speak Belgian. They have no native language..... |
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