>>>>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

Latin also makes the study of bioligical sciences a breeze. Most of the nomenclature comes from Latin or Greek. The Latin names used in the binary naming system for most organisms reads in English like a casual description: "Yellow flower with four peddles", for example.