Latin: Classic Or Dud?

i would just like to register my distaste for the latin wikipedia and its unforgivably dorky (and inconsistent in wikipedia terms) latinizing of forenames

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanus_Gerrard
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonillus_Messi
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Proust

we used ecce romani too! marcus and cornelia and sextus!

latin is easily the subject i studied at school that i use most regularly in quotidian life. easily!

and i only did it up to gcse - so so so stupid of me to choose maths over it for a level on the basis that it'd be "more useful". i could not have been more wrong.

^ You said that in 2008.

Yeah, Ecce Romani! Did they ever get out of the ditch?

That entry on Messi is v short!

^ You said that in 2008.

― Josefa, Thursday, November 3, 2011 3:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha latin did not teach me to read threads before posting obviously

We used Cambridge Latin Course textbooks (I had to google the names of the people to figure that out - Caecilius, Metella, Grumio etc). I dropped it at 13, didn't want to do GCSE.

i did not study it but acquired those later, i wondered how they ever got through any high school classroom without hours of ppl going "SEXtus? snort"

gaius more like GAYus amirite

if it was good enough for monty python...

Day 1: Kennedy's Latin Primer. I've had this copy since I was a teenager and still teach with it today. Despite being published under Benjamin Kennedy's name, it was secretly written by his daughters, Marion and Julia. See Stray 1996 https://t.co/eon4yNYMdW pic.twitter.com/Z1mlw81ykh

— Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird (@opietasanimi) February 14, 2019

so the iconic Molesworth image of Kennedy hunting some grammar is a LIE

the daughters wrote the revised primer of blessed memory but BHK had previously hunted down the grammar for an elementary primer

Kid's in her second year. She loves it. Old Greek not so much her thing.