Anyone learn/knows Latin?

XuChu · Post by **XuChu** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:20 am

Did anyone here do Latin when they were at school?

timtam · Post by **timtam** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:30 am

i know pig latin

Post by **Stress** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:24 am

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

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:18 pm

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.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:28 pm

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".

Anh_Hung_Rom · Post by **Anh_Hung_Rom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:46 pm

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

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

XxYODAxX · Post by **XxYODAxX** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:01 pm

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

Anh_Hung_Rom · Post by **Anh_Hung_Rom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:05 pm

Caesar, Julius Caesar.

Website · Post by **satman83** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:28 pm

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

Anh_Hung_Rom · Post by **Anh_Hung_Rom** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:33 pm

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'? . :roll:

Pan_Raider(`_´) · Post by **Pan_Raider(`_´)** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:54 pm

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 :wink:

And always remember : "sapere aude"

Sin · Post by **Sin** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:19 am

Q.E.D.

"quod erat demonstrandum"

My favorite out of the few phrases I know.

Anh_Hung_Rom · Post by **Anh_Hung_Rom** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:29 am

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.

nadare32 · Post by **nadare32** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:30 am

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

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:32 am

Sin wrote:Q.E.D.

"quod erat demonstrandum"

My favorite out of the few phrases I know.

Thus it is proved?

Crumpets · Post by **Crumpets** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:35 am

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 '

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:39 am

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.

Kitty · Post by **Kitty** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:39 am

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

StealMySoda · Post by **StealMySoda** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:04 am

Caecilius Est In Horto

ShizKnight · Post by **ShizKnight** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:13 am

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

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:14 am

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.

Anh_Hung_Rom · Post by **Anh_Hung_Rom** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:18 am

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.

Post by **Stress** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:33 am

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.

Susanoo · Post by **Susanoo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:56 pm

Cogito ergo sum

Post by **dom** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:57 pm

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 =\

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:35 pm

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.