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Bringing back Latin in schools.
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 Rudi Hedman  Caterham 31 Jul 21 8.07pm |
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Originally posted by DanH
No it didn’t. English isn’t a Latin language. English is very Germanic sounding and not a latin-romance sounding language but you’re wrong. English has Latin influences via french.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 31 Jul 21 8.09pm |
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DanH, the clues of Latin in English words are in the English dictionary.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 31 Jul 21 8.12pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
If only it were the caine. Is Michael dead?
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cryrst  The garden of England 31 Jul 21 8.16pm |
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Originally posted by DanH
No it didn’t. English isn’t a Latin language. You could've backed that up but waited for other posters to correct you.
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Hannes  Vienna 31 Jul 21 8.17pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
DanH, the clues of Latin in English words are in the English dictionary. dico, dicis, dicere, dixi dictum ..... say
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 31 Jul 21 8.18pm |
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Originally posted by Hannes
dico, dicis, dicere, dixi dictum ..... say Ooh flirty
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| Hannes Vienna 31 Jul 21 8.22pm |
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Struggled with English more in school than with Latin
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 31 Jul 21 8.35pm |
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Originally posted by Hannes
Struggled with English more in school than with Latin German stand up comedian Henning Venn’s set including English and in colloquialisms in London and Thames estuary is pretty funny. Pretty much proves how foreigners who learn English speak better English than English people who had ignorant parents but didn’t grow up on bread and dripping and little education.
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| Mr Palaceman 31 Jul 21 8.59pm |
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Great idea. I have long thought that it was taken out of schools to keep the people dumb to what is actually being said and it worked. Latin was once described to me as the mathematics of the language. An understanding of Latin will give you a much better handle when it comes to dealing with the state.Especially the courts..
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| Matov 31 Jul 21 9.05pm |
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Originally posted by Mr Palaceman
Great idea. I have long thought that it was taken out of schools to keep the people dumb to what is actually being said and it worked. Latin was once described to me as the mathematics of the language. An understanding of Latin will give you a much better handle when it comes to dealing with the state.Especially the courts.. Fully agree. Along with offering every child a basic grounding in the Classics as well.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 31 Jul 21 9.20pm |
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I believe there are about 8000 Anglo Saxon words including the infamous Cunit, a huge number of French courtesy of 1066 and all that and the rest are imported from the Empire or relate to technology. We are like the Borg we assimilate other people's culture, food, fashion, design, stabbings, FGM, Forced Marriages etc. Edited by Badger11 (31 Jul 2021 9.21pm)
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 31 Jul 21 11.22pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I believe there are about 8000 Anglo Saxon words including the infamous Cunit, a huge number of French courtesy of 1066 and all that and the rest are imported from the Empire or relate to technology. We are like the Borg we assimilate other people's culture, food, fashion, design, stabbings, FGM, Forced Marriages etc. Edited by Badger11 (31 Jul 2021 9.21pm) I thought D.H Lawrence picked up c*nt off some urchins knocking about between Croydon and selhurst. Either that or it was a first name for a time in Bermondsey.
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