On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. >> >> If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life of Brian' then >> you may use a word other than misfortune. :) > > As I already pointed out, this is true. Btw. this movie scene does show > how Latin does work. Salve vocative et ablative and all the other nice > stuff!
If you like all that, try Sanskrit. It has eight cases, not just six, three numbers, not just singular and plural, and more verb tenses than you can shape a stick at. And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has German beat for compound words! And as for being a dead language (no native speakers, used as a second language for communication), its important literature was written when it was already dead. Take that, Latin! -- hendrik P.S. Not to mention the alphabet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kv5cat$40d$1...@ger.gmane.org
