>>>>>Again, you're missing the point. Your attempts to bring others to your beliefs in a discussion like this is just fine. But if you were teaching in a public school, it would be totally inappropriate since it's not your job there to convert other people's children.
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>>>>Thanks, Tamar. I've wasted bunch of kilobytes to say exactly that. Where did I lose this laconica brevitas?
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>>>Hey Dragan, even laconica brevitas seems to be saying too much!
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>>>Laconic, at least in English, does it all by itself.
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>>Jim;
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>>Latin is/was (depends upon your view point) a formal language. In the American (United States, etc.) form of English it seems like we like to make things brief. An example is the use of the word transistor for Transistor Radio. If that does not work then "thingy" seems to describe any object.
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>>The study of Latin in school is of benifit to English speaking people, as over 200,000 English words have Latin roots. What we have done to those roots!
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>Tom,
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>I took 2 years of basic Latin in high school. Even that proved to be very helpful over the years. I guess, though, that my capability in French may have been a help too (it being a Romance language).
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>Jim
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>>Tom

Jim;

Good point! I forgot how much Latin helped me when I studied Spanish! In fact when I studied Spanish, I had a better understanding of English Grammar!

Being an Alter Boy in Church allowed me to use Latin. All that changed in December of 1964 when it was no longer allowed to say the Catholic Mass in Latin, in the United States.

Tom