Scary AustinI've helped fellow travelers in fluent French, okay Spanish, and even my sketchy Russian, but I will never be as badass as this person.
Alex Hoffmann@MaryAustinBooks @wendynather that is indeed badass.
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Right?? The first thing you learn in normal language courses is talking about modern travel and tourism. From what I heard from friends, Latin class is mostly erotic poetry. How do you even discuss a normal modern business trip in a dead language??
Right?? The first thing you learn in normal language courses is talking about modern travel and tourism. From what I heard from friends, Latin class is mostly erotic poetry. How do you even discuss a normal modern business trip in a dead language??
@MaryAustinBooks @wendynather I couldn’t even imagine. The closest frame of reference I have are my courses in classical Chinese philology but even that doesn’t fully work as certain newspapers in China still use classical grammar because simplified Chinese is simply ill-equipped to efficiently frame complex thoughts.
With Latin I‘d be more worried about the vocabulary for any piece of relevant technology.
Enola Knezevic@mangochutney @MaryAustinBooks @wendynather The word you are looking for is "computatrum". BTW, Linux, -cis, f.
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Reminds me of my language learning book in school which also tried to have some more modern topics. I really can not remember what it was, but it led to having a Latin word for escalator.
Reminds me of my language learning book in school which also tried to have some more modern topics. I really can not remember what it was, but it led to having a Latin word for escalator.
AMS@MaryAustinBooks @mangochutney @wendynather International travel and business are surprisingly well covered in basic latin courses. Airplanes and computers less so.