Does anyone here speak Latin?

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Whenever I "read" Latin (without understanding it, except on very seldom occasions), I tend to pronounce it in my head with a mix of English sounds and Italian sounds. I can't speak Italian either, but I encounter it a fair amount in art history, so I think that's why the mix of the two.
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[Smells Like A Foot]

Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus

Why is to understand ancient texts an insufficient reason for you, Shade?

I've always thought that if you have the chance to learn something and don't take it, you're a dick head. Makes sense, considering it's Shade.

[isobel black]

I took Latin and (ancient) Greek in secondary school, I'm surprised they make you actually speak it over there. We learned the paradigms and vocabulary to be able to translate the texts, but we never trained conversation skills, or translated anything into Latin or Greek.

I did lose most of it though, especially the Greek.
The Latin did help me tremendously with my English, like someone already mentioned, as well as French and Italian.

Greek comes in handy with all the ...phobia's, and, when we passed notes in class we wrote them in the Greek alphabet so most teachers couldn't read them.

[Geoluhread]

Originally Posted by $haDe

Beside looking through the ancient scripture, why would we be speaking old and ancient language ?

Well, studying biology and chemistry now, I wish that i know Latin and Greek.
It is really helpful to understand why things are called the way they are so you can memorize them better.

[Solumina]

I took four years of it in high school but I was always kind of shitty with conjugation and I only remember all of the endings for first, second, and third declension, though I do remember most of the vocab.

[Corpsey]

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

[Ben Lahnger]

True story. My mother taught me a poem she learned when she was studying Latin in high school. Here it is:

Latin is a dead language,
It's clear as can be.
It killed off all the romans,
and now it's killing me!

[Lady_Alyce]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

True story. My mother taught me a poem she learned when she was studying Latin in high school. Here it is:

Latin is a dead language,
It's clear as can be.
It killed off all the romans,
and now it's killing me!

Haha. That was what I was chanting with my old Latin teacher. She went to a Catholic boarding school for most of her life (imagine that movie Trouble with Angels). She taught us the same way the nuns taught her...the ridiculously strict, out-spoken-about-our-intelligence-and-views way.

[Lord Whiskerton]

I've had Latin Classes for a year, so I can barely speak it. I can translate sentences on a page, but it would take time having to decline nouns and conjugate verbs. And also having to look up words.

[Godslayer Jillian]

It seems like such a waste of time to learn Latin.

[DRM]

Unless you're going to be a doctor or lawyer.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Not even then. Latin terms are specific terms. You don't need to speak latin to understand what the terms mean. You don't have to know greek to be a biologist either.

[Duane]

Better to learn Spanish.

[DRM]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

Not even then. Latin terms are specific terms. You don't need to speak latin to understand what the terms mean. You don't have to know greek to be a biologist either.

I'm aware of that, I was just trying to make a joke.

:]

[Sir Canvas Corpsey]

If I knew Latin then I could read the "sexy bits" in the copy of 'The Epic of Gilgamesh and Old Testament Parallels' that I'm reading. The "learned men" that did the translation were obviously attempting to stop women from reading the sexual scenes for some reason, probably a stupid reason... =/

[Still Jack]

Luxembourgish is a far superior language.

Dann gin et der décker laanscht baacken hä! An geih mer lo gefällegst eng verdammt Schwéngshax sichen männchen, ech hun honger. An vergiess den Himpchen net soss ginnech awer lo roosen hei!!!

[Corpsey]

That looks like a Frenchman got drunk and tried to speak German and put French words in where they got confused.

Aber es ist geil.

[SiouxsiePernova]

I was interested in learning Latin until I realised that I would have no practical use for the language.

[PutridLily]

I was interested in learning Latin until I realised it was being rammed down my throat by a load of Catholic nutjobs. Catholic school.

[vindicatedxjin]

Salve! Meum Preanomen est connie...quid es tuum preanomen??? heheh qui totum vult totum perdit!