Julius Caesar walks into a bar ...
Aug 16, 2020 16:27:51 #
LWW wrote:
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,
Only a hippopotamus will do ...
Only a hippopotamus will do ...
Think again. They live in the fresh water most of the day, then come out at night to graze. When they poop they spread it around with their tail.
Aug 16, 2020 16:33:04 #
Mrs. Bennett (my hs Latin teacher) was basically what would be called an "old crone" by some people, but she really knew her Latin. She wrote on the blackboard with a serious shake in her hand, but it was always clear. Between classes, she always "prepped" the blackboard, first erasing it, then meticulously wiping the eraser from top to bottom in overlapping strokes across the whole board. I had 3 semesters from her and 1 from a younger (but not particularly gorgeous) female teacher.
I have found my grounding in Latin has been useful in understanding English, since so many English words have Latin (or derivative) roots.
I have found my grounding in Latin has been useful in understanding English, since so many English words have Latin (or derivative) roots.
Aug 16, 2020 17:36:58 #
Aug 16, 2020 18:35:19 #
LWW wrote:
A small choral group I usually sing with at Christmas has sung that song. It's kind of cute.I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,
Only a hippopotamus will do ...
Only a hippopotamus will do ...
Aug 16, 2020 18:39:49 #
us, i, o, um, o.
i, orum is, os, is (or something somewhat similar).
Nominative, genetative, dative, accusative, ablative.
singular
Plural.
My worst High School subject, but second most useful through life. 40 average, but given a D for good behavior. (Math of course was most useful.)
i, orum is, os, is (or something somewhat similar).
Nominative, genetative, dative, accusative, ablative.
singular
Plural.
My worst High School subject, but second most useful through life. 40 average, but given a D for good behavior. (Math of course was most useful.)
Aug 16, 2020 18:59:28 #
My junior high guidance counselor insisted that I needed 2 years of Latin in high school or I wouldn't get into college - not true. Anyway, I did take the 2 years followed by 3 years of German and 2 of Russian, which I thought were technical languages that would be useful in engineering. The Latin did help me understand language syntax, helping me with the 2 other languages. Since high school I have used none of them. I wish I took something useful instead like wood shop or better yet TYPING. I am now a retired electrical/computer engineering professor and in spite of teaching computer programming courses for years still can't touch type.
Aug 16, 2020 19:04:16 #
I took German in high school. My German teacher was born shortly after WW2 and grew up in East Germany. When she was 18 she escaped to the west. She didn't make a mad dash across the Berlin Wall. She figured out that the GDR government only let dedicated communists travel to the west. She joined every communist youth organization she could. As soon as they trusted her to travel she crossed the border and never looked back.
Aug 16, 2020 20:01:24 #
gpc, I did take Typing in high school -- 2 semesters. I knew I was going to college and figured typing might be very useful (I didn't have money to hire typing done). I was the only male in each class, and was the best typist -- the girls all hated me! In my much later years as a COBOL computer programmer, those touch-typing skills were really gold. (For those not aware of it, COBOL is a very verbose programming language, and the ability to type both fast and accurately is a real benefit.)
Aug 16, 2020 20:44:36 #
David in Dallas wrote:
gpc, I did take Typing in high school -- 2 semesters. I knew I was going to college and figured typing might be very useful (I didn't have money to hire typing done). I was the only male in each class, and was the best typist -- the girls all hated me! In my much later years as a COBOL computer programmer, those touch-typing skills were really gold. (For those not aware of it, COBOL is a very verbose programming language, and the ability to type both fast and accurately is a real benefit.)
COBOL, was that not the computer language used for the IBM 360, or was that Fortran? I do recall them from a computer course I took back in the late 60s.
Aug 16, 2020 22:54:09 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
COmmon Business Oriented Language. It was verbose but transparent - if you knew the basics of programming structure you could see what was going on because, IIRC, variables tended to be named for what they represented, and subroutines for what they did. The software we used in our law firm when we first computerized was written in COBOL, and ran on a Wang Computer.
Aug 17, 2020 00:14:55 #
Yep. Variables could have names 30 characters long, which meant they could be easily recognized. Operations were written in more or less English, and were fairly obvious. Easy to work on.
Aug 17, 2020 06:28:39 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
sscnxy wrote:
"Well, maybe not science because, as we all know, an opinion is as good as scientific fact." 
Right out of Trump hisself.
NMY[/quote]
No, it isn't ... please troll elsewhere.
Aug 17, 2020 10:27:16 #
Aug 17, 2020 10:54:21 #
I guess my Latin teacher did not teach me well or that I did not listen well. Been trying for days to "get" the joke, but it eludes me.
Aug 18, 2020 16:02:48 #
"Martini" ends in an "i". In Latin, that ending on a noun is indicative of masculine plural. The masculine singular version ends in "us". The Roman was saying that "Martini" is plural, suggesting a double shot, and he only wanted a single (hence "MartinUS").
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