Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I have a GCSE in Latin, and honestly can't remember 99.9% of it.

I have a GCE in Latin and the first thing of it that I can remember is the little ditty that my first Latin teacher told us at the start of the first lesson;

Latin is a language,
as dead as dead can be.
It killed off all the Romans,
and now it's killing me.

There may be the odd other bit or two I could remember, if I needed to.

vivatifosi

Funniest news story I've read all week:

Stephen Hawking vs Donald Trump
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stephen-hawking-angers-trump-supporters-with-baffling-array-of-long-words

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Funniest news story I've read all week:

Stephen Hawking vs Donald Trump
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stephen-hawking-angers-trump-supporters-with-baffling-array-of-long-words

I think that article says so much about who is actually voting for him.

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I have a GCSE in Latin, and honestly can't remember 99.9% of it.

My first Latin book, at age 11, was all about a little boy called Pseudulus. The book was Pseudolus Noster (Our Pseudolus).

If I remember rightly, he used to say " O me miserum!" a lot!
I then got into the habit of going around saying "O me miserum! O me miserrimum!" :rotfl:

chris_m

Ours was about an entire Roman family, including the paid servants and the slaves - I can't even remember the characters' names, let alone the plot - although, as far as I can recall it didn't include "Et tu Brute", nor "Veni, vide, vice".

.:rotfl:

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Posh alert!

Not only have I never had any Latin book .... I've never even seen one



Blimey ... they're multiplying

Is it "Show How Posh You Are Night"?

O me miserum!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

O me miserum!

You'll be saying that all weekend now ....

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

You'll be saying that all weekend now ....

Verum est!

ivyleaf

I'm still peeved that I missed out on learning Latin although I went to grammar school. At my first one you didn't start Latin until 3rd year, then we moved countries and everyone at my new school had been learning it for a year already, and they also used a different method of teaching Maths ("New Maths") so it was decided that I should spend the Latin lessons sitting at the back catching up with New Maths.
It only took one term to do that, so after that I was able to use the Latin lessons to do my Maths homework. Which was nice, but I still wish I'd done Latin.

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

I'm still peeved that I missed out on learning Latin although I went to grammar school. At my first one you didn't start Latin until 3rd year, then we moved countries and everyone at my new school had been learning it for a year already, and they also used a different method of teaching Maths ("New Maths") so it was decided that I should spend the Latin lessons sitting at the back catching up with New Maths.
It only took one term to do that, so after that I was able to use the Latin lessons to do my Maths homework. Which was nice, but I still wish I'd done Latin.

I took it up again three years ago at adult classes! I'd forgotten so much that I started with a beginner's course, and it soon came back! You could do that!