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-Talbot- | 12:59 Sat 11th Oct 2014 | ChatterBank

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bert_h

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Understanding Latin doesn't make me feel superior; but what does, rather, is the inverted snobbery of people who don't understand it and won't bother to discover its great historical significance and its impact on our present-day civilisation. They truly don't know what they're missing. In a local cemetery, where most of the pre-1750 inscriptions are of...

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stuey

An interesting thread you started, Talbot. Mrs stewey wants to go shopping now so Ego vobis valedico. (Yes, I Googled it:))

Slapshot

Did Latin 1st and 2nd year at school.... ( getting old!!) Never had much use for it otherwise

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Did Latin 1st and 2nd year at school.... ( getting old!!) Never had much use for it otherwise
15:29 Sat 11th Oct 2014Report

Thanks for your honesty, sloppy.

atalanta

Latin gives you a framework for many European languages.
For instance, if you know Latin and French, you can actually read some Italian fairly easily, such as "6 characters in search of an author" with very little need to look up words. ( you can ignore all the odd endings)
Latin also provides a framework for some of the grammar of Russian. Remember "bonus, bona, bonum"? Well, Russian adjectives follow a 3-gender/6case distribution, too.

BlackadderV

Until the 1960s it was impossible to gain admission to Oxford or Cambridge without an O Level or equivalent in Latin, no matter how brilliant you were.