Re: New jim beam claims

Ioannes Dacey wrote:

I was sort of half-kidding. I enjoyed Latin too and would recommend it
to anyone. The point is that it has no obvious point but is still a good
thing to learn in school.

How I long for the halcyon (not a latin root) days of high school
detention spent translating Caesar's wars and the umpteen Catalinian
Orations which whined about one perceived grievance or another.

My own interest in Latin was rekindled a few years ago, prompted by a
post a few years ago bySheldon Brown(who apparently speaks Latin
like the native of Olympus that he is)

It's true that I speak Latin like a native of Olympus, but since
Olympus is in Greece, that's not much of an accomplishment! ;-)

My freshman year of high school I was at St. John's Prep, in Danvers,
Mass. They offered French and Latin...but they didn't allow the
students to choose. I was hot to learn French 'cause my brother was
living in Montpelier at the time, but the Xaverian brothers decreed
that it was Latin for me.

I hated it, and consider it a terrible waste of time. It would have
been much more useful to me to study French. As it turned out, I
didn't learn French until very much later.

All of the reasons commonly given for the benefits of learning Latin
actually apply just as much to French, since most of the Latin roots
in English came via France, brought over by William the *** (and
my possible ancestor, Grimbaldus the Norman)in 1066.

Sheldon "Gallia Est Omnes In Partes Tres Divisa" Brown
Las Vegas, Nevada

P.S. I'm out in Sin City for Interbike this week. Much to my
chagrin, the Italianate hotel I'm staying at charges $10/day for
"internet service" which turns out NOT to include an SMTP server, so I
am not going to be able to respond to email in any detail this week.

If you email me, you may get a few guttural grunts from my Palm Treo,
but I'm not so hot at typing on the leeetle buttons. Otherwise,
you'll likely have to wait 'til the weekend for a reply...



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