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Dansariki Higher Spirit

26 Apr 09 - 23:49

Mine teaches Spanish, French, and Japanese.

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Honorius Utukku

26 Apr 09 - 23:50

Japanese. I really want that at my school, but NOOO.

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 00:15

Mmhmm. One french teacher, one jap, and four spanish.
Incredibly large budget cuts mean we lose two spanish teachers.
One's a bitch, and the other was useless, so it's alright.
Meaning we'll have at least one cool teacher per language.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 00:24

Useless teachers are cool as long as they give high grades.

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 00:58

One of them did, made for a good nap class last year.

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nathanielandbartimaeus Marid

27 Apr 09 - 14:54

The foreign languages thought here are French, German & Spanish. Most schools however have only 1(that's French) or none. But do people speak Latin?

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 22:10

A few.
The Vatican still uses it for rituals and official stuff.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 22:42

Latin is also useful for astronomy, taxonomy, and science in general.

Or, for us people who are taking Spanish, "en general".

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 22:55

Yes...
But pronounced 'Ehn heh-ner-ahL'

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 22:56

Quite. Part of the pun was that it was spelled the same, but pronounced differently.

And now that I just explained it, I killed it. 2nd time now.

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 23:15

I was just doing it for the benefit of those who wouldn't get it.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 23:15

At the cost of making it both not a pun anymore, and negating it for those who DO get it.

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27 Apr 09 - 23:18

Honorius wrote:Latin is also useful for astronomy

How's Latin useful for astronomy? General science I might give you (biology especially) but astronomy? Not seeing it.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 23:28

Woopsydaisy. That would be Greek.

But Latin is important almost anywhere. Wherever science or culture exists, so does Latin.

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 23:50

Negating anything asian.
Fail.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 23:52

Umm, no. Have you ever heard of the Roman empire? An integration of Asian and Latin cultures. Almost literally.

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

27 Apr 09 - 23:56

No... that could be said of the Mongol empire, and the Persian ones... and the Islamic one, as it penetrated India, but not Rome. It got goods, little else.
I see little Asiatic premises in Rome.

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Honorius Utukku

27 Apr 09 - 23:57

Geography, for one. Just ONE of the many facets of cultural minglement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_La ... es_in_Asia

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Dansariki Higher Spirit

28 Apr 09 - 00:00

Huh... one would've thought, with me taking a World History AP class, that I wouldn't have failed so badly.

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Honorius Utukku

28 Apr 09 - 00:01

That's where a little thing known as "effort" should help you out.

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