Dog Latin

[Geoff Bannister]

Potioncat wrote:
> > I took Latin in middle school--I'm not sure where it helped more as I continued through college, in science or in English--but I'm glad I had it.

Geoff:
I took Latin to GCE O level about the equivalent of OWLs. Like 
you I switched to Maths in the Sixth but I have always been glad I 
took it because it gives you such an insight into the meanings of 
words in other languages and also, if you can cope with six cases in 
Latin, four in German are a doddle!

I was one of those not so little boys made comments in Latin and 
about it. One of my favourites was:

Latin is a language
Dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans - 
Now it's killing me.

Seriously, one thing that always grabbed me about Latin and really 
fired me up was that one of our set books was "De Bello Gallico" 
which was written by - gasp - Julius Caesar himself. Wow.