Hey, I was kidding you. Of course you have a right to be proud, especially if your study was as desultory as you indicate. I had to learn sentence structure and grammar and all that tripe. Today, I'm lucky if I can recall a few words. But the sentence structure stays with you. For example notice that quid hoc est, if translated word-for-word, actually says 'what this is' in English. But in Latin the verb always comes after, not ahead of, the object. Weird, the things that stay with you.
hehe and i was messing too :0)
had to play the part of the youngster rebelling at being put in her place! :0P
yeah we did a bit of that back in the day.
thats about the only thing i ever really understood, the verb coming at the end. i know theres more but i can't really remember it.
if we had to have like a serious conversation in latin id run a mile, but ask me to recite ovid or catullus and i could any day. how vexing!
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George wrote:When MA studied it, it was part of the "Modern Languages" curriculum.
Same here, same here - although ten years later :wink:
(Actually, those years really didn't do any harm, since I had to know Latin at university in those times (re law and history).
Quite helpful as well that I started helping during the masses before the Vatican concilium :wink: .
From what we've seen here on A2K, it is also very helpful to tattoo artists.
