Tony Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Lingua Latina est lingua me favor. Obviously I've forgotten quite a bit of what I once learned so I just make it up as I go along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 and very good at it u are too , not that id know lol its obviously not a dead language to you so keep up the good work ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyloxley Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 amo, amas, amat is about as much as I can remember from school. I think the Pope still speaks it though, which is odd as he's a jerry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 something else ive just learnt then cos I thought he was polish .pays to listen doesnt it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md25 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Latin has been slowly killed off by successive education secretaries as it's seen as a waste of time when kids could be learning business skills like MS Word. However those goons have missed the point; you don't learn Latin so you can read Virgil, you learn it because figuring out how all those ablatives, conjugations and passive periphrastic things fit together makes you smarter. If you make kids smart enough, they'll be able to press F1 all by themselves. Plus Latin's capacity for insults is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathom Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Latin has been slowly killed off by successive education secretaries as it's seen as a waste of time when kids could be learning business skills like MS Word. However those goons have missed the point; you don't learn Latin so you can read Virgil, you learn it because figuring out how all those ablatives, conjugations and passive periphrastic things fit together makes you smarter. If you make kids smart enough, they'll be able to press F1 all by themselves. Plus Latin's capacity for insults is amazing. I agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabulous_girl Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 scintilla in casa laborat! scintilla works in the house dulce e decorum est, pro patri mori (apologies for spellling) - it is sweet and honourable to die for ones country i completely bluffed 63% in my latin exam at school. awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddinburner Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I think it's a crying shame that Latin is not really taught in school's these days. I understand a little but would love to know more. Does one think it's to do with class? or is it a fact that working class see it as a waste of time and only for the likes of doctors etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabulous_girl Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I think it's a crying shame that Latin is not really taught in school's these days. I understand a little but would love to know more. Does one think it's to do with class? or is it a fact that working class see it as a waste of time and only for the likes of doctors etc. i did it in year 8 (age 13), that was 10 years ago. the teacher was fairly old, and retired before my sister got to the same school. they never replaced him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFoot Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Dead as a speaking language perhaps. Still used in science - particularly thinking of classifications of the living world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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