I was in high school in the 1970s and had a teacher for a Latin class who was a polyglot from Europe (and a Holocaust survivor, but that's not relevant here). I didn't know anything about languages, but I was interested in science, and knew that Latin was used in science (I think mostly Biology in naming newly discovered species) because it was a dead language and thus didn't change. I didn't learn a lot of Latin but I've since learned that many scientific words also come from Greek. I've since learned "a few words here and there" from a few other languages such as Spanish, but I'd be hopeless if I had to speak or understand anything other than English.
In the middle of class someone said, er, made the mistake of saying "Latin sure is hard."
That was all it took to send the teacher off. "You say Latin is hard? Well what about English? I remember learning English when I was growing up, and I'll tell you ... Let's just go over singular and plural of a few simple English nouns" and he writes on the board:
Horse - Horses.
House - Houses.
Mouse - Mice?
No one dared complain about Latin after that.
In the middle of class someone said, er, made the mistake of saying "Latin sure is hard."
That was all it took to send the teacher off. "You say Latin is hard? Well what about English? I remember learning English when I was growing up, and I'll tell you ... Let's just go over singular and plural of a few simple English nouns" and he writes on the board:
Horse - Horses.
House - Houses.
Mouse - Mice?
No one dared complain about Latin after that.
If you're an Airline Pilot that flies internationally, it would be good to know English as a second language. all Air traffic controllers must use English if requested aka USAF Air Supremacy.
I thought english was universal aviationspeak.
Permission to land vertically at 900 knots in your backyard madamoiselle ground control ?
Permission to land vertically at 900 knots in your backyard madamoiselle ground control ?
The EU spends 1% of their budget on translation of internal documents into 20 different languages, I assume excluding publication costs. As most attorneys know, laws can be argued based on their lack of precision in language.
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And that should be 28 european languages. Its obvious that somebody must use google-translate to ,understand whats written in those ducuments.
I think my source cited 23 but I rounded down.
using google to translate laws would end up costing them a lot more.
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How old is your source ?
These different countries pops up out of nowhere.
Every year I have to by an updated globus.
These different countries pops up out of nowhere.
Every year I have to by an updated globus.
IDK who cares anyway, the point is something else (found it here 2013)
they should pass a universal law, that they must repeal one for every new one that passes.
so as language changes ,the laws meanings can become warped indeed.
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So I always wondered about the British pronounciation of Latin. It just seemed logical that it should sound more like Italian or Spanish or French.
Went to a latin mass here in Costa Rica, and yup , sounded like Spanish!
That's one thing I admire the English for- They don't cringe and apologize for butchering a language, they just know they are right! 😉
Went to a latin mass here in Costa Rica, and yup , sounded like Spanish!
That's one thing I admire the English for- They don't cringe and apologize for butchering a language, they just know they are right! 😉
kept latin at bay.
If those incas hadn't been so friendly and accomodating to the aliens, spanish wouldn't have been so widespread in miningland.
If those incas hadn't been so friendly and accomodating to the aliens, spanish wouldn't have been so widespread in miningland.
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