17-03-2021, 01:38 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Boy what a discussion...Latin a dead language???!!!..Wow..OKL..my son studies linguistics. Apart from French and English of course, he has studied Latin for some years now.. He can converse in it but his speciality is that he can translate it fluently. He reads works from the ancient world that were written in Latin and Ancient Greek. He has often remarked that if everybody studied Latin..Not rote as taught in the old schools but learned it's practical application, we could all speak the latin based languages and understand each other. Food for thought. He has also studied Old and middle English. As for the rest of what has been said here so far. Yes English is the most common today. I think that's as much because it's the language of the United States as it is of Britain. And I wouldn't like to have to live in West Africa or many other places in the world without having a good command of French.
17-03-2021, 01:54 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by keezoy
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Boy what a discussion...Latin a dead language???!!!..Wow..OKL..my son studies linguistics. Apart from French and English of course, he has studied Latin for some years now.. He can converse in it but his speciality is that he can translate it fluently. He reads works from the ancient world that were written in Latin and Ancient Greek. He has often remarked that if everybody studied Latin..Not rote as taught in the old schools but learned it's practical application, we could all speak the latin based languages and understand each other. Food for thought. He has also studied Old and middle English. As for the rest of what has been said here so far. Yes English is the most common today. I think that's as much because it's the language of the United States as it is of Britain. And I wouldn't like to have to live in West Africa or many other places in the world without having a good command of French.
17-03-2021, 02:51 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by keezoy
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Boy what a discussion...Latin a dead language???!!!..Wow..OKL..my son studies linguistics. Apart from French and English of course, he has studied Latin for some years now.. He can converse in it but his speciality is that he can translate it fluently. He reads works from the ancient world that were written in Latin and Ancient Greek. He has often remarked that if everybody studied Latin..Not rote as taught in the old schools but learned it's practical application, we could all speak the latin based languages and understand each other. Food for thought. He has also studied Old and middle English. As for the rest of what has been said here so far. Yes English is the most common today. I think that's as much because it's the language of the United States as it is of Britain. And I wouldn't like to have to live in West Africa or many other places in the world without having a good command of French.
17-03-2021, 02:59 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Tedc
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Latin is a dead language.I guess that's why the French recommend it?
Still, we'd have to give it some thought if, for example, all of the USA switched to Latin!
I did take Latin in high school, and it has served me well in understanding all other languages.
I'll be sure to bring it up to my congressman! Thank you for the idea.
17-03-2021, 04:42 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I would have liked to have taken Latin at school but the choice was either Latin or German, not both. As I was never going to be an academic, I chose German.
I can still speak a little German but nowhere near as much as I can Italian or French.
17-03-2021, 04:58 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Mags
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I took Latin at school too, I quite enjoyed it but unfortunately it was useless to me in the wide world. 
Status quo, subpoena, ad nauseam, etc so maybe not so useless.
17-03-2021, 06:40 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
I was just reading posts on another thread about spell checkers, there will be fun and games when those try and check Latin for correct spelling.There will definitely be a lot of very poorly spell checkers out there!
17-03-2021, 06:46 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by keezoy
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Boy what a discussion...Latin a dead language???!!!..Wow..OKL..my son studies linguistics. Apart from French and English of course, he has studied Latin for some years now.. He can converse in it but his speciality is that he can translate it fluently. He reads works from the ancient world that were written in Latin and Ancient Greek. He has often remarked that if everybody studied Latin..Not rote as taught in the old schools but learned it's practical application, we could all speak the latin based languages and understand each other. Food for thought. He has also studied Old and middle English. As for the rest of what has been said here so far. Yes English is the most common today. I think that's as much because it's the language of the United States as it is of Britain. And I wouldn't like to have to live in West Africa or many other places in the world without having a good command of French.
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