Re: Old Languages
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 5:18 |
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Colin Halverson wrote:
> I was wondering- how many people here speak dead languages, especially Latin,
> Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew.
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Speaking is a bit much - I exchange Latin phrases and puns around with
one of my collegues (he's had six years of Latin at school and did one
year of classics at University). His grammar is infinitely better than
mine, because I have never had any formal tuition in Latin, but my
vocabulary is a bit better.
Anyway I can read, or used to be able to read, Latin, Koine Greek,
Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and Classical Tibetan. Latin is the
language that has had the most staying power, I feel. Reading lots
of medieval Latin has helped a lot.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org