Post drifts valet observatio
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Post drifts valet observatio
What was that fancy phrase about who guards the guardians?
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Isn't there an ipsos in the middle somewhere? And you have a superfluous i
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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Ninth & 622 - Give me a break it's about 45 years since I did Latin! (pulls another arrow out of messenger bag....)
It's only thanks to Terry Pratchett [long may his name be praised] that I remembered that much.
It's only thanks to Terry Pratchett [long may his name be praised] that I remembered that much.
..Never studied Latin myself ....but have watched the Life of Brian...
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'Romanes eunt domus' is a brilliant sketch and SO reminiscent of the hell of Latin lessons at school!
Tuesdays at prep school were dreaded - we had a double Latin lesson between break and luncheon!
Tuesdays at prep school were dreaded - we had a double Latin lesson between break and luncheon!
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Longer since I studied it, got the O-level in '65! Took 2 attempts.
Gave up Latin after one year and took woodwork instead. Probably more useful overall. I did invent a motto for my Chipmunk course but cannot guarantee the endings after 55 years!
Semper in excretam pedes ponamus.
Salve!
Mog
Semper in excretam pedes ponamus.
Salve!
Mog
I endured three years of Latin in two years: Forms I and II, advanced course. Though I abhorred it at the time, I must admit that it improved my vocabulary as well as my ability to assimilate Romance languages.
O Sibili, si ergo!
Fortibuses in ero.
Nobili, demis trux -
Sewatis enim? Cowsendux!
Semper ubi sub ubi....
- Ed, the Sesquipedalian
O Sibili, si ergo!
Fortibuses in ero.
Nobili, demis trux -
Sewatis enim? Cowsendux!
Semper ubi sub ubi....
- Ed, the Sesquipedalian
Ah Dog Latin - I have used this version of that:
Der dago
Forte lorez inaro
Demaint lorez demis trux
Fula cowz enzan dux
I offer:
Caesar ad sum jam forti
Brutus et erat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at
Der dago
Forte lorez inaro
Demaint lorez demis trux
Fula cowz enzan dux
I offer:
Caesar ad sum jam forti
Brutus et erat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at
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Going back to the first half of the thread title, and Latin. I give you - Boris Johnson,
Wasted so many hours at school learning "Caesar made a strategem to defeat the Gauls."
I learnt more reading Asterix the Gaul!
Wasted so many hours at school learning "Caesar made a strategem to defeat the Gauls."
I learnt more reading Asterix the Gaul!
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When nausea supervened, the master enlivened matters with:
ABCD fish ?
MNO fish
OSABD fish
OKICD fish!
Then I was sent to attack German, much easier, much more useful.
ABCD fish ?
MNO fish
OSABD fish
OKICD fish!
Then I was sent to attack German, much easier, much more useful.
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FWIW - Twas 45+ year since I were forcibly Latinised in my final year at Middle School (The great Scottish 3 tier edification experiment) where those few of us selected as being "The Bright Ones" in the year were herded off to an hour of Latin three times a week while the rest of the class, I assume those regarded by the staff as irredeemable knuckledraggers got to go to such useless activities as Home Ec.,i.e. cooking for survival, Sex Ed. (We were left to work that out on our own. Never been sure if that was a good thing or not) and R.E..
Out of the roughly 10 that this indignity was inflicted on, I think only one went on to use it in later life and that didn't work out too well. Not quite a Walt in his own right, but....
He used it to get into Cambridge for an otherwise wholly impractical degree, then joined the Foreign Office and was posted abroad, but left under somewhat of a cloud some years later after waking up naked in a Cairo slum without phone, wallet, the diplomatic pouch he was carrying with a large amount of cash & some very sensitive papers, nor any sign of the rent boy he'd picked up three nights before on his way home from work. And this was back in the day when any possibility of non-standard orientation was actively frowned upon. Nobody is really sure what he's doing now, but it was strongly rumoured that he was was working for a US bank and was a highly paid Middle East adviser....... It Figures.....
Out of the roughly 10 that this indignity was inflicted on, I think only one went on to use it in later life and that didn't work out too well. Not quite a Walt in his own right, but....
He used it to get into Cambridge for an otherwise wholly impractical degree, then joined the Foreign Office and was posted abroad, but left under somewhat of a cloud some years later after waking up naked in a Cairo slum without phone, wallet, the diplomatic pouch he was carrying with a large amount of cash & some very sensitive papers, nor any sign of the rent boy he'd picked up three nights before on his way home from work. And this was back in the day when any possibility of non-standard orientation was actively frowned upon. Nobody is really sure what he's doing now, but it was strongly rumoured that he was was working for a US bank and was a highly paid Middle East adviser....... It Figures.....
Centurion enters a tavernum and asks for a martinus. The keeper says "do you mean Martini?" Centurion says - "Listen Palus, If I wanted a double, I'd have asked for one!"
(Massive thread drift - sorry!)
(Massive thread drift - sorry!)
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