What's your excuse for not learning Latin?

I follow the most popular Roman tradition of all: learning Greek

>>22838694 (OP)
but I did learn Latin.

Greek is better

>>22838694 (OP)
Because the English translations are quite good.
>>22838696
Nerd

>>22838697
Why? I thought about learning both but decided to start with Latin, seems more beneficial.

>>22838694 (OP)
All Italians who want to get a degree learn latin at age 14-18.
Of course I know Latin, as I do Ancient Greek, which I learned at the same time.

>>22838698
Sine qua non for studying law or medicine here.

>>22838694 (OP)
we do in highschool if you’re smart enough I liked it since you get lots of roman/greek history slop

>>22838694 (OP)
I was just contemplating learning basic latin for fun and then i see your thread now im contemplating taking my meds

>>22838698
>Because the English translations are quite good.
Are you being serious? Pretty shitty reason. Anyway I'm learning logic because I'm interested in grammar, logic and rhetoric. And because it's a richer more complex language than English. And because it was shaped by the greatest thinkers who ever lived. Or maybe that was Greek, I don't know. Anyway I think both Latin and Greek are good to study.

>>22838704
>Pretty shitty reason.
How, retard? If you're talking about reading some gay shit like ancient poetry instead of history then you might have a point, otherwise no.

>>22838694 (OP)
Iam paucis ante annis latinas litteras discere incipi, quoniam me fingere romanum priscum volo. Vale, verbero.
>>22838695
I'm too dumb for Greek.

>>22838694 (OP)

Tuam matrem novi

>>22838706

Spanish is just Hillbilly Latin.

>>22838695

Fpbp. Someone fetch Ammon

>>22838708
All Latin vernaculars are vulgar.

>>22838706
Ancient Greek in some ways is easier than Latin because it's very flexible and fluid, and instead of using obscure words it prefers making up composite words made with prepositions + common words.
Instead of saying "surround" they will say "put-around-against" so if you learn your prepositions + your common verbs (pull, push, go, put, take, and so on) you can translate 90% of the language. The rest is an ocean of "ὡς" which means "that" and is the conjunction they use for everything, and "δέ" which means "on the other hand" and they use in every sentence.

>>22838699
Most latin texts are translations from Ancient Greek. Unless you want to read about Roman laws.

>>22838710
>All Latin vernaculars are vulgar.
Cope, Italian and even French make Spanish/Portuguese sound like ooga booga

>>22838694 (OP)
Same as yours for not learning maori.
>when the fuck would I ever use it?

>>22838694 (OP)
I'm leaning spanish, a latin language that is usable outside of vampiric communities

>>22838694 (OP)
>What's your excuse for not learning Latin?
Ten hobbies I don't do already.

>>22838705
I don't even want to learn Latin to read Latin texts primarily. It's everything around it. The grammar. The richness and complexity. The fact it's one of only a handful so-called "classical languages". The fact it was used by and shaped by the greatest thinkers in the history of mankind. (Again, was that Latin or Greek?) I'm sure learning Latin will expand my mind and help me in my studies of grammar, logic and rhetoric. Speaking English and not wanting to learn Latin is like speaking Pidgin English and not wanting to learn English.

>>22838713
French is the most heterodox Latin vernacular.

Italian [Tuscan] is better. But Sardinian is still the truest to form.

>>22838713
Chadtuguese is the last and more beautiful flower from Latium, though.

>>22838694 (OP)
>excuse for not learning Latin?
You can read and write it, but two people from different countries can't understand each other in Latin as it's not spoken anymore. Useless.

>>22838711
Interesting, thanks, Itanon. May try to learn it someday.
>and "δέ" which means "on the other hand" and they use in every sentence
I actually knew this one, kek. The Vulgate translates it as autem, and it's so commonly used in the Gospel of Matthew that it almost seems a joke, at least in the Nova Vulgata.

>>22838694 (OP)
>What's your excuse for not learning Latin?
I learned Esperanto instead, 99% of people who read Latin can't actually hold even a basic conversation in it

>>22838714
Why do you need to use the language? There are other reasons to study a language than using it.

>>22838709
That guy is a liar
He said that lestes means pedophile but it just means robber or bandit

>>22838724
He never said pedophile.

>>22838694 (OP)
I did that for 12 years, can I have a break from gerund and pluskvamperfect passive and akusative + infinitive structures.

>>22838694 (OP)
Literally every well educated Dutchman has learned latin and greek, wtf is wrong with the rest of you?

>>22838722
peasant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKt6zH15Kg

>>22838727
they are non continental europeans aka subhuman trash

>>22838694 (OP)
I already know how to speak Latin, here it's a compulsory subject at school. Stultus mestīcius

>>22838696
>>22838698
Catholic school. My choices were Latin or French, and I stand by my decision.

>>22838730
Stultus mesticio.
Its accusative.

>>22838694 (OP)
Because its a dead language with no new words and no way of accurately and correctly expressing contemporaneous lines of thought,ideas and feelings

>>22838701
Don't lie. I'm a lawyer and it's not necessary to know Latin for that. Yes a few words (iura novit curia, in dubio pro reo, utile per inutile non vitiatur, nulla poena sine lege, etc), but nothing more

>>22838733
>no new words

Latin and Greek have been getting neologisms for centuries now.

Automobile wasnt a Latin or Greek construction.
Nor Television. Nor Telephone. Nor Computer.

>>22838694 (OP)
Hablo Español un poco

>>22838722
>muh conversation
Really that's all you care about? Very simple-minded of you. Sounds like you should just start learning and probably it will expand your mind. I'm starting myself, have just downloaded the book in the OP. You sound like someone who complains that classical music doesn't have bass and rhythm. I was like that as a kid. Then I started listening to classical music and started appreciating it and it expanded my mind, and also I wasn't a kid anymore. Latin is called a classical language for the same reason you have classical music and classical literature, basically means of higher value, more refined, more civilized.

>>22838732
My bad. My Latin is not what it used to be

>>22838725
Yes, yes he did.

>>22838736
"Hablo un poco de Español", Adverbial locutions come before the noun, my good fren

>>22838735
How do you say: "Ive been dying to try out the new kissing technique on my girlfriend but she's too busy trying to understand computer ergonomics,and her college homework does overwhelm her at times" in latin? You cant.

>>22838739
Why is an arab /you/ing me?

>>22838724
>The term "Lestes" originates from Ancient Greek, where it is derived from the word λῃστής (lēistēs), meaning "predator".
where do you think uncle lester came from
where do you think molester came from
kill yourself you jewish pedophile worshipping cunt

Nil desperandum, tempus fugit.

>>22838731
>Catholic school. My choices were Latin or French, and I stand by my decision.
Good choice, better a nerd than a homo

>>22838741
Cupio vehementer novam artem osculandi in amica mea experiri, sed nimis occupata est ergonomiam computatralem intellegere conans, et pensum academicum eam interdum opprimit.

Straight from Google.

>>22838745
>french language
>not homo
Huh?

>>22838723
Like what?
Aside from satisfaction, if that’s your thing.
Honestly can’t think of one.

>>22838742
I (somewhat) accidentally had my memeflag on
I am also not arab
>>22838743
You know you do have to read stuff in context, yeah?
Ammon is also a CIA asset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJcyXf_zaw&t=255s&ab_channel=BoneZone

>>22838694 (OP)
i cant even speak Spanish after 999 years of it

>>22838749
>Ammon is also a CIA asset

Buncha lies. They did a very bad job of spooking him then.

>>22838751
Oh poor him :(

>>22838752
The CIA has an invested interest in spreading Christianity.

Especially the American Evangelical kind.
Why would they shoot themselves in the foot?

>>22838734
>Don't lie.
It is mandatory in Austria. If you really were a lawyer, you could've done that much research easily before posting, but you're not. You're obviously just a larping fuckwit.

>>22838694 (OP)
I should have done Latin and not French.
In French class, all you have are girls who are protestants and jewish whores.
In Latin class, you get girls who are catholic whores.
But I wanted to learn french because my grandparents were all francophones... by the time I could talk to them, they were all dead.

>>22838749
>context
the context is if you use that word you mean what it means not what some new age interpreter thinks it means because he's trying to defend a jewish pedophile
how about the context of yeheshuah being a rabbi
how about the context of the babylonian talmud and what it says about being a pedophile
how about you fuck off and kill yourself you retarded cunt

>>22838694 (OP)
Because it’s the google translate of shitty languages and it’s already otherwise easily decpherable if you ever really need to read it.

Redpill: it’s a fake codex legalese language that nobody ever actually spoke.

>>22838700
nah, non-lyceum high schools don't teach latin at all.

>>22838694 (OP)
I already had latin 3 years in highschool, no thanks.

The gods love Latin. It is true. It's a divine language.

>>507845153
Nonsense. 70% of what we have today never existed in ancient rome. Just in my room:
-gas pipes
-electricity wires
-heater
-Air conditioning
-television (obviously)
-canvas
-wardrobe
-private bathrooms LOL
-fridges
-many types of modern cutlery
-mattresses
-**double glazed windows**
-**electric induction heater**
-**computer**

These do not exist in latin and nor do cars,or advanced college level education exist in latin because it was invented during and after the middle ages,way after french,middle german and the italian dialects emerged. Its just not practical to use it in any field since it got replaced by local dialects that evolved to become languages. For example do you think it would be more proper to describe a spanish galleon in spanish kr in a language that had died 1000 years prior to its conception? What about a brain surgery? Neurosurgery is a XXth century science fundamentally based on the knowledge of english and german. Can you even imagine naming all those proteins and genetic abnomalies in latin? Down syndrom,kleinfelter,turner syndrome,poliploidy,aneuploidy,cranial nerves etc. it may be doable with a considerable effort but it would be exhausting

>>22838753
>The CIA has an invested interest in spreading Christianity.
Not really
>>22838756
>the context is if you use that word you mean what it means not what some new age interpreter thinks it means because he's trying to defend a jewish pedophile
The word predator doesn't necessarily mean it in a sexual way
plus, you (not you. but ammon generally) are telling me that somehow the Bible is edited and malformed yet somehow they left this part?
It's funny that you are saying that this is "not what some new age interpreter" when this idea that Jesus is a pedophile seems more new than anything else?
lol
>how about you fuck off and kill yourself you retarded cunt
Nahhh I dont think I will

>>22838694 (OP)
I'd rather learn about the ideas of the ancients than the particular language. Learning Latin is basically useless unless you want to translate.

I'd rather read Seneca's Moral Letters or Meditations. The content is much more important than the substrate. If you enjoy it, though. Great. Have fun learning a language, understand 99% of people will not give a single shit. And even fewer will communicate with you in it. God bless

>>22839123
One of the funny things about Jesus/Christianity and Latin is the letters and correspondence between Paul and Seneca. Probably the most obvious forgeries in history. Basically Seneca tells Paul about what an amazing guy he is, how cool his ideas are and how Jesus is cool too. When you compare them to his other writings and musings it is plain as day forgery. A lot of Christians like to reference those.

>>22839145
k.

My language is a derivative of it, therefore I’m basically fluent in it.

>>22838694 (OP)
for every latin class I would have had to walk 500 meters to the neighboring school and back

>>22838696
what practical things can you do with latin? can you order a pizza?
can you write an amazon product review on some shipment of sub-standard copper?

>>22839224
The OP is about classical Latin, not vulgar Latin which is what Romance languages developed from.
>irrelevant image
Kys faggot

>>22838695
i can´t disagree with this one, but it appear latim is more easier than greek to learn on my own, due to the change o letters.

>>22839224
Also you're a faggot who never even read a Latin text.