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"Et in balneis factae caedes, occisique nonnulli etiam cenantes, inter quos etiam Sammonicus Serenus, cuis libri plurimi ad doctrinam extant." "There was slaughter in the baths, several being killed at dinner...." I suppose ancient Rome offers a lesson. Once the system of law wa...

I knew the guy who is currently professor in Latin at Manchester. I also recall an academic who threw a party at a lovely house on campus. His main field was ancient Greece and he spoke about 13 languages. "Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was far more than just a Hollywood superstar. The a...

One thing I learned just is to check the text you have against other versions. I found some tiny mistakes. I re-typed part of the text into Google and other versions showed up. These were better. What happens is the actual source parchment may be tricky to reproduce due to age, or even copy errors ...

As Richard remarked, the impact of Latin on English is pretty strong. So, he's quite correct you would get a deeper understanding of how words were derived. Other than that, Latin won't be valued as a priority field of knowledge today. Of course, if you followed the interest in a university, it cou...

I figured out why I always found Latin hard. Writers tended to be vague. This had me bogged down all yesterday: "Laetum ad mortem coegit misso a se veneno: ipse enim inter suasores Getae mortis primus fuerat, qui et primus interemptus est. Ipse mortem eius saepissime flevit." "He for...

Is there any way to use hypnosis to forget or change certain information? It's information i learnt quite recently and I really don't want to remember it. If this information is persisting in your memory, that may be because it would be healthy and helpful for you to 'process' that information, i.e...

By the same token, systematized education likewise relies upon emotional input, made evident by its dependence upon approval, hierarchy, status and demand to formulate thought-processing along these lines. I'm interested in this point you've made about the education system. I read your words as ass...

Take a look at this: (1)"In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Jerusalem Bible (2) In the Beginning, the Shining Ones looked (down) with pleasure upon the Highland pastures and the Lowlands. Christien O Brien's alternative. ""All modern concepts of the Garden...

"Especially in the early stages of social decline, the dumbing-down of language (the removal of nuance, loss of commonly understood usage and meaning, criticism and ridicule of those who use language well) encourages social decline, rather than the other way around. Wouldn't you agree?" I...

Later on, Yahweh saw what they were doing and said: "Behold they are one people with one language for all... come let us (plural) descend and there confuse their language, that they should not understand each other." This is a divide and conquer strategy. In addition to language / dialect...

[/quote] Take a look at this: (1)"In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Jerusalem Bible (2) In the Beginning, the Shining Ones looked (down) with pleasure upon the Highland pastures and the Lowlands. Christien O Brien's alternative. ""All modern concepts of th...

Here's something interesting that came to me: I tried reading the story of Jonah as it's very short. It was translated from Hebrew to vulgar Latin around 380 AD. Now, the pagan Latin I was already reading was written around 60 AD. So, that's a gap of over 200 years. I noticed differences in the Lat...

In ‘decision science’ I find it fascinating that the word decide can be traced back to Latin “de” meaning “off” and the suffix “-cide” comes from “caedere” meaning “to cut or kill”. Think about words like homicide, genocide, pesticide. They all refer to killing. So decide is to cut off or kill the ...

I always found Latin hard too. The grammar is complex and the word order can be tricky. People I met who have this interest always tended to be interesting and eccentric. Enjoy Donna Tartt's The Secret History, if you haven't already :-) And Jonathan Black/ Mark Booth's The Secret History, come to ...

"For example, understanding a dead language could lead to discovery of a lost city. Or maybe it leads to evidence that humanity came to earth from outside the solar system." This is surprisingly probable. The language you would study for that would be Sumerian, written in cuneiform. It ha...