[ksen]

Back when, Latin was a two-year "highschool" requirement (at least it was in Jesuit highschools) -- which, I believe, is the whole point you've been trying to make.

I went to public High School in NH in the mid-1980's. They still offered Latin as one of the courses to fulfill the two-year foreign language requirement. I took two years of it but now I wish I had paid more attention.

-ksen

[american colleen]

Don't we all wish we knew then what we know now? There seemed to be no sense in learning a dead language (or even a live one in my mind) when you were in HS.

"Latin is a dead language; as dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans, and now it's killing me".