I'm going to do an archaeology course at Uni. Would Latin be helpful?
Well, it's interesting for sure. Once you know it, you'll notice that 20% of words and names are somehow related to Latin.
Also you will understand certain types of music (O Fortuna, for example).
Learned Latin.
Spanish and Italian are so much easier now. Plus it's just all around fun, but that might be because I'm a history nut who really likes languages.
[QUOTE=acds;22797541]Well, it's interesting for sure. Once you know it, you'll notice that [B]20%[/B] of words and names are somehow related to Latin.
Also you will understand certain types of music (O Fortuna, for example).[/QUOTE]
Way more than that.
Minime.
Omnes qua latinum dixit stultus est.
[QUOTE=iron_skull;22797868]Minime.
Omnes qua latinum dixit stultus est.[/QUOTE]
Omnes qui Latinum dixunt stulti sunt.
Stulte...
[QUOTE=Yahnich;22798031]God fuck latin, I'm in my 5th year and the 5 grammatical cases with each like 5 functions and like ten types of sentences gurrrrll[/QUOTE]
There's six cases if you count the vocative.
And then there's three genders.
And then there's three different types of words, each with distinct suffixes for each case.
And then there are some forms that are different for adjectives and substantives.
Latin is not an easy language. :v:
[QUOTE=deltasquid;22798159]There's six cases if you count the vocative.
And then there's three genders.
And then there's three different types of words, each with distinct suffixes for each case.
And then there are some forms that are different for adjectives and substantives.
Latin is not an easy language. :v:[/QUOTE]
Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative are only five.
I suppose you could also count the locative and vocative, which would bring the count to seven.
I thought learning Latin wasn't about being able to speak it, its more about showing how intelligent you are that you have the capacity to learn the language
[QUOTE=ThePuska;22798192]Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative are only five.
I suppose you could also count the locative and vocative, which would bring the count to seven.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, vocative is counted as well because words on -ius become -i (filius -> fili) and words on -us become -e. (Marcus -> Marce)
If they're male, singular words, of course.
Locative, well, I don't really know much about that one, since I mostly read poetry from the first century B.C. and onward and by then the ablative has effectively replaced the locative.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;22797905]Omnes qui Latinum dixunt stulti sunt.
Stulte...[/QUOTE]
Non callidus sum.
Latinum rhetor meus saepe iratissimus est...
[QUOTE=iron_skull;22798637]Non callidus sum.
Latinum rhetor meus saepe iratissimus est...[/QUOTE]
Quoque meus, sed intelligo linguam et mihi non irascitur.
Make your teeth stick out a little and walk around quoting Latin to women. Guarenteed to get you laid.
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[QUOTE=Tippmann357;22793175]Impressing ladies? Who are you dating? A librarian?[/QUOTE]
Middle class women love shit they don't understand because everyone else does.
Learn Interlingua instead.
latin sounds awesome
Unless you're going into a medical or linguistic field, Latin isn't very useful.
The stories, however, are damn interesting.
its good if you want to do something in science, especially biology for the names of the animals are usually latin, but otherwise, no
oh wait, since no one speaks it, you could talk to your mates outside of class in latin and latin is like one of the least spoken languages, so no one will know what you are saying, also cults
If you take the SAT's. It helps
It's helpful for listening or reading shit at church. My church still uses it. Yet again, the Catholic church is a little late on everything.
[QUOTE=atl101;22792897]Yeah, all you do is reading because there's no point to speaking anymore. Your teacher may speak to you occasionally, but there are never any oral exams like in Spanish, French, German, etc.[/QUOTE]
What if you subdued a Spanish, French or German girl, so she gave you a blowjob?
Couldn't that be considered an oral exam?
It isn't, not compared to all other stuff you could do instead.
I took 3 years of Latin and I've found it to be very useful, but you might want to go with something people actually speak.
It's good for quipping latin one-liners to impress people but that's about it.
Besides, latin is a dead language, just make it up!
Haha, Latin is difficult as fuck, at least if you're a native English speaker. All the fucking suffixes will drive you crazy. As in all Romance languages, suffixes in Latin are essential to understand the context of words.
As a native speaker of a Romance language, I never realized how fucking difficult Romance languages are and how much suffixes complicate the problem, until I started learning Latin in high school.
As for contemporary usage, I am surprised you guys did not mention [URL="http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima"]Vicipaedia[/URL], the Latin version of Wikipedia. Here you can read about [URL="http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton"]Paris Hilton[/URL], [URL="http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_hacking"]ROM hacking[/URL], [I][URL="http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons"]Familia Simpsonia[/URL][/I] and many other topics, all in motherfucking Latin.
Only if you're an archaeologist in Rome.
[QUOTE=Tippmann357;22793175]Impressing ladies? Who are you dating? A librarian?[/QUOTE]
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I heard that they understand latin..
Acta Non Verba, Amice!
Stude linguam latinoroum!
Vale!
(Never had to translater German->Latin, alsways the other way round. SO please excuse my mistakes)
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