Posted on 08/15/2020 12:01:10 PM PDT by NRx
[EN] It's here! The new Amazon ALEXIVS, the home digital assistant every Latin speaker is getting this season. (appx 3 mins)
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I took 2 years of Latin in HS. I think you mean Hispanish.
OK now I want one. I like Latin.
I want one too! Four years of HS Latin.
People still speak Latin?
If I say it should be sent to the gold mines of Numidia in Latin what will it do?
Of course. It’s the mother tongue of Western Civilization. Which means it is also despised, by all the right people.
I’ll raise you.
5 years of high school Latin any Greek, and 4 year degree in Latin and Greek.
I don’t have a profile for a reason. :)
You definitely win. I had one year of German in HS as well—I would have taken Greek, had it been offered.
It's also the mother tongue of Esperanto, which they love deeply. "Soros" is an Esperanto word.
His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro Ŝvarc) was a lawyer[35] and a well-known Esperanto-speaker who edited the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo and raised his son to speak the language....
In 1936, Soros's family changed their name from the German-Jewish Schwartz to Soros, as protective camouflage in increasingly antisemitic Hungary. Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning. In Hungarian, soros means "next in line," or "designated successor"; in Esperanto it means "will soar." - Wikipedia
(They condemn because they do not understand)
Yes, but don’t pronounce it correctly. Nobody says Iulius Kaisar, like they did back in the day.
My daughter - 4 years Latin in high school. Graduates from University of Edinburgh in June with a degree in Latin and Greek.
Christmas shopping is done.
I had 4 years of high school Latin and taught 4 years to my homeschooled son. lol I still remembered the bedtime story. lol
Not sure why people get picky about Ecclesiastical Latin. It’s just the next stage of the language. Imperial Latin wasn’t the same as Republican Latin either.
And yes people very much still use it. I hear it every week in the traditional Latin Mass—which I just went to this morning. 1500+ years of continuous, unbroken usage.
Bonus!
Somehow I linked to my prophike when I had attempted to link to a movie clip. Getting senile I suppose
profile. Jeeze
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