Re: Important questions


"Jud" <numismatist@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When studying Latin WAY back in High School we recited a little poem,
that I am sure goes much farther back.
"Latin is dead
As dead as dead can be
First it killed the Romans
Now its killing me"

Quod Felix Faustum Que Sit

We were always told in school that by learning Latin we could readily
adapt to learning other romance languages. Not only were we clueless as to
why they were called "romance" languages, but most of us decided we could
eliminate the middleman and instead take a language that we could actually
use to communicate with our friends' immigrant parents, like French,
Portuguese, or Italian. Soon after I graduated, Latin was dropped from the
curriculum like a useless Studebaker, what with only a few aspiring
pharmacists and priests choosing Latin as their language of choice. I took
French although most of my friends were of Italian and Portuguese descent.
Made sense to me.


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