RE: Should Latin Be Offered as a Secondary School Elective?
February 18, 2013 at 3:26 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 3:27 am by Something completely different.)
(February 18, 2013 at 2:53 am)C3P0 Wrote: Of course it's going down the gutter. Most kids nowadays spell worse than cognitively disabled person, retain the vocabulary of a ten-year old, and create some of the most nonsensical terminology.
What are you talking about? 200 years ago most people couldnt even read and write. You`d expect the language to go down the gutter then when spelling is all that counts.
And spelling is a fixed thing, no matter how wrong someone writes, this doesnt change the rules of the language.
(February 18, 2013 at 3:07 am)Stue Denim Wrote: The foundation of the language? How-so? It's a germanic language, not romance. It's an influence no doubt, but the foundation?
Shall we teach them old english? What we know of Proto-germanic and Proto-indo-European?
jury, beef, pork, port, hour, rude, property, famine, desire
These are normaic words, when William conquered the kingdom of england in 1066 england was ruled by a normanic king. the normans - were french.
By being ruled from a french speaking upper class the languages intertwined and combined.
English is not a normanic language, english is a mix out of a normanic and germanic language.
There is no such thing as a 100% pure language, all languages are combinational.
Just listen to someone speak dutch, it`s like a blend of english, german, norwegian and swedish
And by the way, latin and greek are the languages of science and law.
I am not sure about other countries but were I live people who want to study medicin, law or any kind of biology - must have basic knowlege of latin and greek to apply at the uni.
