Remembering your Latin

[tulip]

I remember the book--it was red. Wheelock's Latin. I don't remember anything in it, though.

[SadieKate]

How do you say "prolly" in Latin?

[emily_in_nc]

Took French III my junior year in HS, but had heard that Latin was a good thing to know (and my dad had taken four years of it back in his day) so took Latin I my senior year (not required). Don't remember anything of it. I do remember a little bit of French, and wish I'd just gone ahead and taken French IV, where you actually get to read French literature....

[Veronica]

How do you say "prolly" in Latin?

Probably = probabiliter.

So if Romans were texting they'd most likely use prolly too - morons.

V.

[OakLeaf]

"Moron" sounds Greek.

[Veronica]

"Moron" sounds Greek.

It is. Latin for idiot is too long - homo fatuus or femina fatua.

[Mr. Bloom]

I wish I had taken Latin.
French has proven rather useless.

I wish I had taken French. Latin proved rather useless to me.

I spent two years translating The Illiad and The Odyssey with Sister Mary Catherine

All I remember is something totally unrelated:

Tinitus, tinitus, semper tinitus!

[Veronica]

The Iliad annd The Odyssey are Greek and written by Homer. If you translated something similar in Latin that would be the Aeneid, written by Vergil.

Arma virumque cano

[carpaltunnel]

"Moron" sounds Greek.

Slightly - OK, Well off topic but you made me think of it:
While cleaning out a box last week I ran across my tiny collection of political campaign buttons. My favorite, from several presidential election back:
"No Mo Ron"

[shootingstar]

Wow, more latin defectors than expected.

Maybe someone who has studied something as esoteric and uncool as latin, has the potential.....to walk a different path in life...that is to say, they chose later to cycle alot.

The teacher I had actually made latin fun. His first level courses attracted at least 100 new students each year. High enrollment for a dead language among the rebellious youth.

[aka_kim]

Arma virumque cano
Trojae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Lavina que venit.

(Spelling questionable.)
All I remember from 2 years of college Latin.

[Mr. Bloom]

The Iliad annd The Odyssey are Greek and written by Homer. If you translated something similar in Latin that would be the Aeneid, written by Vergil.

Arma virumque cano

Oops...I not only forgot the Latin...I forgot what I was translating

But I still remember the first line of Jingle Bells

and, I still remember the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

[NoNo]

4 years in high school and a semester in college. I took it in high school because my brother did, and I always heard stories about this crazy teacher. Once I took the class, I understood. He was definitely quirky, but he loved the language and the culture and wouldn't tolerate anyone that didn't give it the proper respect. The first year was the weed-out class to figure out who would stick with it and who would drop. From that point on, we were still "children" (specifically the "Children of the Peanut Gallery") and never "students". As he said, we hadn't "arrived" to that level. By senior year, there were only 6 of us left and in April he finally called us "students". Being only girls left, we all started crying, because we knew it actually meant something. Any questions about his life were answered with "That's none of your business, little girl." Every year we'd take an ill-fated trip to NYC under the guise of studying the city because it was modeled after Rome. Usually there was some type of accident involved, but we always had fun. If you couldn't keep up with him walking, you'd be left behind, and he'd give us a map before we left with places you could find a phone to call him To this day, my brother and I still keep in touch with him and occassionally go to his house to drink wine and talk.

We never learned much vocab, it was a dead language and we prefered to keep it that way (Latin is a language, as dead as it can be. It killed the ancient Romans, and now it's killing me!). We did lots of translations and conjugating and declining. I'll never forget during a test one day my friend broke down in tears. When asked what the problem was, she blurted out "We never learned the subjunctive!" That was a total lie, but he felt awful and told us to skip that section Yeah, I have a lot of happy memories from that class.

[cyclingmama]

I remember "Agricola, agricolae. First declention. Farmer."

I would not have come up with this on my own, but the moment I read it I could hear it, plain as day, roll off the tongue of my Latin teacher. He was a phenomenal teacher as well, and those of us that stuck it out after the first year could not have escaped his class without his having a profound impact on our lives. I'm seeing that as a trend in these posts.

[NoNo]

Facio, facere: to do. Only because the first part sounded like a swear