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Did anyone here do Latin when they were at school?

i know pig latin

I know like 4 words in latin ->> study it at school (YUCK). It sounds good but it's hard to learn.

I studied 4years of Latin in high school, but I got bored and switced to a science/math orientated thing.

Now I'm studying pharmaceutical sciences (2nd bachelor) and I'm enjoying it.

Nope, but I do remember a time in English when someone came in from the foreign language department to sort of advertise the Latin program. He was trying to make Latin look cool and was going on about how if you learn Latin, you can know the meanings of all sorts of interesting words just by how they are constructed. He goes, "for instance, I'll bet nobody here knows the meaning of the word 'defenestrate'." I just smiled and raised my hand, and the rest of the class laughed 'cause they knew I was good for it. Ah, that class. Good times. Teacher let me write whatever the hell I wanted for a lot of assignments. Like the one where we were supposed to write 3-5 page short stories, and instead I wrote a 1 page story with only words beginning with "s".

You are the 'unum' in "E Pluribus Unum" bakeman.

Oh and that's about the only Latin phrase I know.

Veni vidi vici or something like that....Julius Ceaser "We came, we saw and we conquered"

Caesar, Julius Caesar.

XxYODAxX wrote:Veni vidi vici or something like that....Julius Ceaser "We came, we saw and we conquered"

correction, "i came, i saw, i conquered"

and i have to agree with bake, i loved english...A for GCSE and A Levels.
was going to do it for uni but i opted for film studies.

lol i know it was came, lol call it typo

satman83 wrote:

XxYODAxX wrote:Veni vidi vici or something like that....Julius Ceaser "We came, we saw and we conquered"

correction, "i can, i saw, i conquered"

and i have to agree with bake, i loved english...A for GCSE and A Levels.
was going to do it for uni but i opted for film studies

Isn't it 'came'? .

Anh_Hung_Rom wrote:

satman83 wrote:

XxYODAxX wrote:Veni vidi vici or something like that....Julius Ceaser "We came, we saw and we conquered"

correction, "i can, i saw, i conquered"

and i have to agree with bake, i loved english...A for GCSE and A Levels.
was going to do it for uni but i opted for film studies

Isn't it 'came'? .

Lol, Anhung's right : I came I saw I conquered
literally... though veni vidi vici is past perfect.

Yeah i know some latin, but our teacher tended to talk more than to teach

And always remember : "sapere aude"

Q.E.D.

"quod erat demonstrandum"

My favorite out of the few phrases I know.

Carpe diem.

It's funny 'cause my cousin's name is Diem. She's kinda chubby so at 30, no one has carpe'd her yet.

I know what "a cruce salus" means =) "from the lord comes salvation" I think. meh italians good enough for me.

Sin wrote:Q.E.D.

"quod erat demonstrandum"

My favorite out of the few phrases I know.

Thus it is proved?

Uhmm I know

Idem ditto, which can be used like to say: Likewise, same etc etc

Tempus Fugit: Time flies.

Rector: Leader, some schools call their headmasters / principl's rectors.




Meh this is only few things I come ot learn without ever ' learning '

Hello_Kitty wrote:

Sin wrote:Q.E.D.

"quod erat demonstrandum"

My favorite out of the few phrases I know.

Thus it is proved?

IIRC
What had to be proved (or is it proven?).

It's used in maths after you prove something.

Yeah, my math teacher used to be mad over this phrase

Caecilius Est In Horto

Latin is a lot like French. It sounds cool when you say it, but it has no real use.

Anh_Hung_Rom wrote:Carpe diem.

I prefer carpe scrotum. I had one person actually give me a polite smile and ask me what it meant.

ShizKnight wrote:Latin is a lot like French. It sounds cool when you say it, but it has no real use.

Now that's just dumb. Over 300 million people from over 50 countries speak French and you say it's not useful? Go compare to Punjabi or something, lol.

I like the way latin sounds. Perhaps I like it because my own language (ROMANIAN FTW) is a heavily based latin language. More then 70% of all words in romanian derive from latin. Perhaps this explains why I like it. I've allways wondered how it sounds, spoken by somebody from America. (NO offense please) In that case, it does sound like crap indeed.

Cogito ergo sum

This year = Law, Economics, History, Geography, Psychology, French, English

Me = Have to learn a lot of latin for most of my classes.


I think it was until 1965, or at least around there, until the catholic church decided that it's mass was no longer to be "performed" in Latin =\

De gustibus et coloribus non disputandem est.


Can't find the correct English translation.

Dutch: over smaken en kleuren valt niet te twisten.
English'ish: you can't argue about colours and flavours.