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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:16 pm
As a nurse, I know many medical terms/abbreviations are derived from Latin words. I grew up with Catholic parents. Some Catholic masses are still performed in all Latin. It is absolutely lovely to hear it spoken. I went to a small rural school. The only foriegn language taught was Spanish. Bummer. My sister took German in college, because part of our heritage is German. (I can remember my grandfather speaking it at times) I picked up a few words, but can hardly remember any. rolleyes
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:52 pm
Church Latin =/= Latin
In terms of pronunciation, anyways. :/
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:53 pm
Flame_Dhampir I have never heard Latin spoken or sung, but I do wish to learn how to speak Latin. Since I am only in the eighth grade I have had no opportunity to learn to speak Latin. The only phrase I know is: "Omnia romae venalia sunt.", "Hell has its price." I took Latin in 8th grade. And, trust me, you'd be surprised at how much Latin you actually know.
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:04 pm
Judas lscariot Flame_Dhampir I have never heard Latin spoken or sung, but I do wish to learn how to speak Latin. Since I am only in the eighth grade I have had no opportunity to learn to speak Latin. The only phrase I know is: "Omnia romae venalia sunt.", "Hell has its price." I took Latin in 8th grade. And, trust me, you'd be surprised at how much Latin you actually know. Etc.=et cetera=and the others ie=id est=that is R.I.P.=requiescat in pace=May he/she rest in peace. Over 60% of English is derived from Latin.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:03 pm
*debates making post in Latin*
Per tres annos Latinam doctus sum.
I was taught Latin for three years.
Magnopere amo! 3nodding
I love it!
Now if only I could type macrons....
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:28 am
asgard_seven Judas lscariot Flame_Dhampir I have never heard Latin spoken or sung, but I do wish to learn how to speak Latin. Since I am only in the eighth grade I have had no opportunity to learn to speak Latin. The only phrase I know is: "Omnia romae venalia sunt.", "Hell has its price." I took Latin in 8th grade. And, trust me, you'd be surprised at how much Latin you actually know. Etc.=et cetera=and the others ie=id est=that is R.I.P.=requiescat in pace=May he/she rest in peace. Over 60% of English is derived from Latin. Which is funny, because English is officially a Germanic language which formed separately from Latin. Germanic Languages:Old English Middle English German Finnish Bokmol (Nyorsk) Sweedish Latin (Romance) Languages:Latin Italian Spanish French etc. It makes sense, however, for a language like English to absorb the linguistic quirks of other cultures. The British Empire is enough to explain why this would happen. Not only that, but some languages just don't have a word for an object or abstract idea and must borrow it from one that does. Thus, the Japanese use "Western" words in their every-day life. Example: Computer becomes Konpyoota in Romanji (Japanese written in Roman Characters)
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:12 am
FWIW Example: Computer becomes Konpyoota in Romanji (Japanese written in Roman Characters) Just one little correction. Japanese in Roman characters is called Romaji, with no n, ローマ字. I only mention it because I spelt it with an n for the longest time until I learnt the Katakana version of the name. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:26 pm
Thank you for bringing that up. Corrections are always welcome. (This is why I'm a History major.)
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:45 pm
FWIW asgard_seven Judas lscariot Flame_Dhampir I have never heard Latin spoken or sung, but I do wish to learn how to speak Latin. Since I am only in the eighth grade I have had no opportunity to learn to speak Latin. The only phrase I know is: "Omnia romae venalia sunt.", "Hell has its price." I took Latin in 8th grade. And, trust me, you'd be surprised at how much Latin you actually know. Etc.=et cetera=and the others ie=id est=that is R.I.P.=requiescat in pace=May he/she rest in peace. Over 60% of English is derived from Latin. Which is funny, because English is officially a Germanic language which formed separately from Latin. Germanic Languages:Old English Middle English German Finnish Bokmol (Nyorsk) Sweedish Latin (Romance) Languages:Latin Italian Spanish French etc. It makes sense, however, for a language like English to absorb the linguistic quirks of other cultures. The British Empire is enough to explain why this would happen. Not only that, but some languages just don't have a word for an object or abstract idea and must borrow it from one that does. Thus, the Japanese use "Western" words in their every-day life. Example: Computer becomes Konpyoota in Romanji (Japanese written in Roman Characters) Middle English is actually where all the Latin characteristics came about. It was a mesh of Anglo-Saxon and Old French, which was of course heavily Latin-based. Also: It's "romaji", not romanji.Someone caught it before me. Whoops.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:20 pm
TiagoBrazil Latin, the language of the learned. It is sad that it is no longer spoken. It is such a beautiful language to hear spoken. It is indeed a very beautiful language when spoken. It is also the foundations of many of today's European languages, such as Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, etc. I'm quite a sad person and I actually opted to do Latin as one of my GCSE courses. And my teacher makes the lesson much more fun than my previous ones. Sure, there are loads of words to learn. But it helps, if you study French (which I am) or Spanish). It also helps you to understand why some chemical elements come from, such as Fe for iron, derived from the word fero (or was it ferox), which is the Latin word for iron. Lots of things, plants, animals, chemical element, etc., are classified using Latin. [This is something I don't know why happens.] It's quite useful, too, to have some Latin background for Law and whatnots.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:39 pm
Inomoni domoni saboath.
Sui filique ite ad infernos.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:37 pm
I know some Latin. It's all Italian accent nowadays, sad but true. Many think Italian is the language that resembles Latin the most but pronunciation is totally off.
Num is sum qui mentiar tibi
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:32 am
I love Latin. Unfortunately, I can't speak or read it. Yet. wink
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