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Melas ^ | today | Melas

Posted on 12/01/2005 2:06:39 PM PST by Melas

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To: Petrosius
I think you just said, "Tuesdays with Morrie".
61 posted on 12/01/2005 7:12:51 PM PST by fish hawk (creatio ex nihilo)
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To: Great Caesars Ghost
It could be worse. Latin just has active and passive...Ancient Greek has active, passive, and middle, plus a whole mood that Latin doesn't have, the optative (alongside the indicative and the subjunctive).

Slavic languages, still being spoken, are even worse, with "perfective" and "imperfective" verbs...plus half of them are written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

62 posted on 12/01/2005 9:14:27 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Melas

Stop loading Latin into your head.
All of the folks who spoke it are dead.


63 posted on 02/27/2009 6:53:13 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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