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Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:51 pm
by Squirt
So today as I changed my school schedule I noticed that there is an AP course called Latin:Vergil
I'm assuming this is a Latin language class, my question is, had anyone here taken Latin? Is it worth taking/ is it a useful language to learn?
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:55 pm
by Deadsolid
Dead language. Completely useless unless you are a linguist.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:59 pm
by iGod
I had it for two years, don't remember shit, but I can flaunt it around to sound smart to hill billies.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:04 pm
by TheDrop
very hard, i don't get why people take latin unless they already know like spanish or french.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:09 pm
by /Pi
You already failed the class. It's Carpe, not Carpa.
I took it 2nd year in university for one semester. It's not so bad as long as your really good at memorization and have your declensions down.
As for functionality, it somewhat helped me in my biology courses when it came to taxonomy and anatomy.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:11 pm
by Mirosuke
Makes you more cult.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:13 pm
by inky
Dead language. Only useful if you're trying to sound like a pretentious prick. Exempli gratia, Hank Moody-wannabes.
We still use it for medical terminologies but whatever.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:17 pm
by Shomari
I'm taking latin. It's stupid.
It'll help a little w/ words you don't know - But come on how often is that.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:56 pm
by Jstar1
I completely agree, wtf are you going to use it for? no one uses it but the vatican. I mean its nice to learn something for the sake of learning but why latin out of all the other things more interesting like biology or astronomy.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:20 am
by LaloHao
Learn chinese
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:21 am
by Nick Invaders
LaloHao wrote:Learn chinese
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:07 am
by Squirt
Ror wrote:carpe diem noob
Your mom is a carp
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:14 am
by heroo
I had Latin for 5 years and Ancient Greek for 1 year. I can tell you, it's not what you expect it to be. It's a dead language, so you don't get to hear it, you don't get to speak it and you don't get to write it. The only thing you do is learning all the grammar (which is a f*cking lot) and translating Latin texts. It's completely useless and it takes alot of time or else you'll fail it.
So unless you like to memorize a thousand grammarrules and translate a thousand of Latin texts, I'd suggest you leave it alone.
And it's Carpe Diem and not Carpa Diem.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:46 am
by Shomari
heroo wrote:I had Latin for 5 years and Ancient Greek for 1 year. I can tell you, it's not what you expect it to be. It's a dead language, so you don't get to hear it, you don't get to speak it and you don't get to write it. The only thing you do is learning all the grammar (which is a f*cking lot) and translating Latin texts. It's completely useless and it takes alot of time or else you'll fail it.
So unless you like to memorize a thousand grammarrules and translate a thousand of Latin texts, I'd suggest you leave it alone.
And it's Carpe Diem and not Carpa Diem.
Yeah and a lot of the different rules tend to make a lot of words exactly the same, making it a bit frustrating at times in longer sentences. I think English is more simple imo.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:49 am
by aznronin
Nick Invaders wrote:LaloHao wrote:Learn chinese
Take AP Chinese, AP Spanish, AP Chemistry, AP Bio, AP Macro or micro, AP Computer Science, AP Calc AB or BC, AP Physics (I forgot there was a B and C?), or AP Environmental Science. Those seemed to be the important ones I think, I might be missing some.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:57 am
by McLovin1t
This
LaloHao wrote:Learn chinese
and
Ror wrote:carpe diem noob
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:10 am
by dom
McLovin1t wrote:This
LaloHao wrote:Learn chinese
and
Ror wrote:carpe diem noob
this
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:17 am
by cin
I've been told that it can be useful to study latin because it can give
a better understanding of french, italian and other roman languages.
However, if you're never going to use it then it is pretty much useless.
I took it for a year and decided i didn't need it.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:43 am
by inky
Even in the medical (nursing, pharmacy, psychiatric, etc), where Latin terms are widely used, it really doesn't serve that much of a purpose. Mainly because most of the Latin words used keep repeating themselves and are pretty much used as an official "English" term to describe body parts or diseases ("Angina Pectoris," "Lateralis," etc)
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:13 am
by Skyve
Don't take AP.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:20 am
by EvGa
ExSoldier wrote:Don't take AP.
wut
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:06 am
by Gaigemasta
Squirt wrote:So today as I changed my school schedule I noticed that there is an AP course called Latin:Vergil
I'm assuming this is a Latin language class, my question is, had anyone here taken Latin? Is it worth taking/ is it a useful language to learn?
I have, and it's not directly useful BUT it helps you learn other languages so much easier
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:47 am
by poehalcho
had it for 2 years. completely useless for me.
and I only remember the bad words |o|
vacca fueda: stupid cow
passer futuensis: jacking sparrow
http://www.latinsayings.info/ 
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:55 am
by Doron
useless language, even if you were to become a doctor, since in med school you will only get the medically useful words, not the rest.
If I were you I'd pick up spanish/italian/french because hey, girls always wanna go to Paris, Barcelona, Rome and Venice, right? Impress them. Think of your future.
Why did you think I'm running 4 languages and picking up some home courses for myself soon?
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:30 am
by DumboDii
It could be usefull in history or theology studies I guess. But then again I have no experience about this so...
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:09 pm
by Pinoy_Archer
inky wrote:Even in the medical (nursing, pharmacy, psychiatric, etc), where Latin terms are widely used, it really doesn't serve that much of a purpose. Mainly because most of the Latin words used keep repeating themselves and are pretty much used as an official "English" term to describe body parts or diseases ("Angina Pectoris," "Lateralis," etc)
And its still taught until now. i dont know if its still being used in the Board Exam. @_@.
Re: Carpa Diem
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:03 pm
by Mark.
cin wrote:I've been told that it can be useful to study latin because it can give
a better understanding of french, italian and other roman languages.
However, if you're never going to use it then it is pretty much useless.
I took it for a year and decided i didn't need it.
Of all the comments, this one.
I'll just quote every single word cin said, 'cept for the last sentence. :p
I've been studying Latin for six or seven years now, but it's not simply learnin' the grammar and translating stuff. We also read original works for a better understanding of our language (that is, Italian).
But if you're gonna take some scientific AP, it's not much of handy, except for what inky said.
Also, not only it is
carpe diem instead of "carpa diem", but it was Horatius (Horace) who said it and not Virgil. >_>