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Loving Latin at the End of the World bostonreview.net

Published: Nov. 12, 2019

• culture
• latin

via epilys 2 years, 8 months ago | archived | plain text cache | source | 3 comments

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  snowcrash2 years, 8 months ago | link | reply | source

  Thanks, this brought me 10 years back. During my high school days(1) I fell in love with Latin and Greek to the point I would spend half of my spare time on a online platform called 'Splash Latino'(2) translating homework for people I didn't know. At some point I was writing my notes in Latin. Oh the memories, I miss those days.

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  • 1 I attended an Italian 'Liceo Classico MaxiSperimentale', with a primary focus on humanistic subjects + a supplement in physics, law and computer science...yes we studied a lot, but it was fun!

  • 2 https://www.latin.it/

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    epilys2 years, 8 months ago | link | reply | source

    Beautiful. Do you still read/write latin?

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      snowcrash2 years, 8 months ago | link | reply | source

      Unfortunately I'm quite rusty now, at best. Haven't practiced in years. Sometimes, when I'm mood for jokes, I reply to people in Latin (simple sentences), but I'm far from being capable to actually speak it as I used to be