Lysie----da romans were-----WERE----lets leave them as WERE----their perversities
WERE
Oh, come on. What's the Latin for "fun bunch"? I took Latin for a year. I swear that it must have been impossible to get anything done in that language. Decline
this!
gee----I am sad to say-----I never did latin-------I cannot decline "this"-----
my dad used to so -----something like 'amat, amas ----.....???? I have no idea
You didn't miss much. I concluded that the only thing the language was good for was papal enclaves. Every damned noun has to have a different ending depending on where it is in the sentence. I can't see how one could make love, argue politics, or order a pizza in that language. The only person I ever met who used it was one of my medieval history professors in college, who said that he met a foreigner on a bus and they couldn't find a language in common until they got to Latin.
When I was a little Catholic kid, we responded to some prayers during mass with "et cum spiritu tuo (and with your spirit also). We used to say that this was G-d's phone number.
there is a term used to describe that grammar stuff------uhm "HIGHLY INFLECTED" Lots of languages is-----''''highly inflected""" Of course
it seems sorta SUPERFLUOUS to persons who do not use the language.
YA GOTTA LEARN ALL THAT CRAP. -------hint----you do it in an
ALL NIGHTER ----that's how I aced german Study hard and forget it
after the exam.
I absolutely hated doing all nighters, but I did get an A in French Lit and don't remember any of it. I can't do Hebrew or Arabic, as they are read from right to left and I can't train my eyes that way. I don't know what I could do with the Asian languages that are read up and down. Or Cyrillic. All in different alphabets. I only recently learned some of the rules for Irish, as to why the name "Sean" is pronounced "Shawn." The "sh" sound comes in if the following vowel is an "e" or an "i." There is no written "h". Don't get me started on French.
I once went to a Bas Mitzvah, and, after I figured out how to get the prayer book open, I was ever grateful for the phonetic Hebrew printed on the opposite page for us morons! I think that Hebrew and Arabic are languages that you have to start learning when you're around four.
But language is fun. I wish there were some way that I could understand it all. And with the slang! I can imagine some poor foreigner with his whatever-to-english/english-to-whatever trying to figure out what someone "getting cold feet" means. The poor guy might send along an extra pair of socks in sympathy. I got addicted to a British soap opera for a while that was all done in Cockney dialect: "pratt," "slag," in the "nick," he got "stitched up."That was fun, just translating what they were saying.
