Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Iustus a modicum.
Yul Brynner
- Thread starter gavroche
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
quod erat demonstrandum
Only because my maths teacher used it all the time at the end of a mathematical proof. I ended up doing the same at the end of my workings.
Only because my maths teacher used it all the time at the end of a mathematical proof. I ended up doing the same at the end of my workings.
Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
No2 daughter just completed her 3yrs of Latin at school, she took it in prep for veterinary uni. It’s a great tool for understanding many languages.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Amo, amas,amat, ammanus, amatus,amatis,amant.
OP
OP
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Forgot to say he was also a very good guitar player.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Agricolae non saepe bene cantant!
Bleedin' tone deaf labourers - I hated them doing the Karaoke at the Young Farmers' Ball!
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
He was obviously multi talented. What else couldn’t he do besides use a comb?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Cure cancer?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Live to be 200 years old?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
all he had to know was "full body cavity search"?
FishFright
More wheels than sense
I used to cave with a guy who lived in a railway carriage , the rumour mill said he was on the run from the Legion . Oh how laughed until they turned up to collect him, luckily for him he was underground at the time and the locals who knew him said he'd left months ago .
Profpointy
Legendary Member
OP
OP
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Never argue with legionnaires, they are nut cases. When I was in the army, returning from leave at the train station, an army truck used to collect us to take us back to barrack. On that particular evening, a legionnaire was amongst us and wanted a lift. The sergeant who was in charge of the truck told him to sit at the back with us. Bad move. The legionnaire told him in no uncertain terms that he intended to sit in the cab, at the front. The sergeant did not argue and sat with us. Lesson learned.
That was in 1970 but stayed in my mind to this day.
That was in 1970 but stayed in my mind to this day.
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
I suspect Mary Beard can speak Latin; but there are not many who can. Many are those who can read Latin, often extensively and fluently but few can speak it. The simple test is to ask the question: What is the Latin for yes? A conversation without the use of yes from time to time is close to non-existent; yet many of the classically inclined could not tell you what yes is in Latin. Learning Latin as a classical language at school is more a branch of mathematics — code cracking in its most unedifying form. You speak Latin when the other can say to you in Latin: Darling, isn't that wheel a bit out of true? And you can reply: Yes, but not enough to spend time truing it rather than spending time with you. In real life, maidens did not only adorn bulls with roses.
A funny story (well its funny looking back).
1982, in south of France, we were lost. Pulled into a big driveway and looking at the map.
SUDDENLY there was a rifle sticking in my ear. I didn't speak French but understood we had to shift very quickly.
It was only a barracks for the French Foreign Legion
