Re: Sauropodz r kewl WAS: silly conversation on 2012 US presidential race

[Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>]

7 years of Latin here. Barely enough to stumble through De Bello
Gallico today, and catch plural-errors (mani instead of manus) in
manuscripts.
No Greek, though - that's all Greek to me!
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Gaius Julius Caesar



On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Andreas Johansson <andreasj@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Mike Keesey <keesey@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> 1) The so-called "classical" European languages (Latin, Greek) aren't
>> taught as widely any more. (Everyone here who's taken a class in one
>> of them, raise your hand. How about both?)
>
> *raises hand*
>
> Took a Latin class at Uni, back in the palaeozoic haze of the middle
> of the first decade of the third millennium.
>
> No Greek, tho, beyond some self-study.
>
> --
> Andreas Johansson
>
> Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?