Comments on: Latin: An Undead Language

By: Thai Online Shop

Thai Online Shop — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:57:53 +0000

That rss page on your site here is impressive, you should tell people about it in your upcoming post. I haven’t noticed it for the first couple of times, now I’m using it every morning to check on any updates. I’m on a real slow dial-up link in Brazil and it’s quite baffling to sit there and wait for such a long time ’til the page loads… but hey, I just found your rss page and added it to the Google Reader and there you are… I’m always up-to-date! Well pal, keep up the good work and make that rss button a little bigger so that other people can enjoy that as well

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:20:32 +0000

The undeadness of Latin is well illustrated by Schola – a social networking website, completely in Latin, bar the odd untranslated word here or there – with – surprisingly, a chatroom where most nights members can be found happily typing to one another in Latin.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:42:44 +0000

I am a carpentry foreman and I would like to make some stickers for a couple of my apprentices that say “Measure twice, cut once” in Latin. Can any body translate this for me? Obviously, ‘measure’ refers to measuring the length of a piece of wood and ‘cut’ refers to the cutting said board to length with a saw.

Thanks,
Mike

By: Éric

Éric — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:46:29 +0000

Of course, Latin helps!
It helps learning French (I am french), Spanish, Portugese (I learned it), Italian, German (I live it), Russian (I am learning it) also, and much more…

It may also help to “understand” better English even if you are a native speaker. Looking at Stargzer’ comment, I notice “remember”, “computer”, “languages”, “standard”, “dictionary”, “grammar”, “reference”… Aren’t all those words more or less directly coming from Latin?

I’m not a linguist, just a language lover. I always thought that English could be considered as a “latin-invaded” language… Just have a look at all those -tion and -ate suffixes

I would like to have your opinion about English as a “latin language”.

Kind Regards
Éric

By: Stargzer

Stargzer — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:14:58 +0000

I can still remember our slogan from Latin I and II, 40 years ago:

“Latin is dead, as dead as can be.
First it killed the Romans, and now it’s killing me!”

I remember I was told that Latin would help me with my English. I found it worked out the other way around.

I did better in computer languages than in the standard “foreign” languages. I can make my way through French with a dictionary and a grammar reference a bit easier than I can through Latin, but not much more.