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@=XDC=FluffyBunny wrote:
So why the song in a dead language? Oh and was the B side in Welsh 😯 😀
Because it is a very old public school and once upon a time most of the lessons were in Latin. Plus we all had to take Latin at school. It is about a classical eddykayshun dear boy.
I had to do Latin too, but at least could drop it before O-Level.
While it is one of those subject that while at school you just can’t see the point of it. But in real grown-up adult life it actually becomes quite useful in understanding words and phrases that may otherwise be somewhat obscure,
I’m damned if I can think of any good examples, but I know there has been times when I have thought “I understand, that derives from the Latin X, hence this word Y”…..or some such bollocks.
But for all their cleverness, the Romans had one bloody long-winded numbering system. A big “yay!” for the Arab system we use instead….
@Lensman wrote:
But for all their cleverness, the Romans had one bloody long-winded numbering system. A big “yay!” for the Arab system we use instead….
You might think so, but if I’ve heard that I I must have heard it M times, so there you go.
@sickofitall wrote:
@Lensman wrote:
But for all their cleverness, the Romans had one bloody long-winded numbering system. A big “yay!” for the Arab system we use instead….
You might think so, but if I’ve heard that I I must have heard it M times, so there you go.
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