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Overnight Open Thread - Latin EditionBona vespere omnes. Et semper ubi sub ubi memento. Forget Mandarin - Latin is the Key to Success* Mandarin is great if you just want to talk with Chinese people, but you'll get broader and longer-term benefits from studying Latin: Hard as it may be to believe, one of the things that gives privately-educated children the edge is their knowledge of Latin. I don’t just mean in the obvious senses – their grasp of basic grammar and syntax, their understanding of the ways in which our world is underpinned by the classical world, their ability to read Latin inscriptions. I mean there is actually a substantial body of evidence that children who study Latin outperform their peers when it comes to reading, reading comprehension and vocabulary, as well as higher order thinking such as computation, concepts and problem solving.Personally I was very lucky to take two years of Latin in high school under a tough but loving, old school teacher. We were drilled on grammar and vocabulary every single day and to this day I can still reel off the full declension of qui, quae, quod if need be. And later when I studied other languages all my Latin studies put me a few steps ahead in learning these. So why is Latin so useful? Well among Indo-European languages (which are pretty much all languages in Europe) Latin is a very generic language that has most of the features common to the family. So its grammar and vocabulary are going to be fairly similar to any modern Indo-European language giving you a head start in learning it. Plus it turns out that among all human languages the Indo-European family is fairly typical with grammar and grammatical distinctions common to a lot of other languages. So despite being dead for over a 1000 years a lot of Latin's usefulness comes from its utter genericness as a language. *But if you're just looking to pick up chicks, go with Spanish or French. But of course Latin grammar is nothing to screw around with - you have to be careful with your ablatives, datives, and locatives if you want your insults to be properly insulting. Jimmy Carter Still Loves Dictators “We greeted each other as old friends,” gushed Carter regarding his meeting with Fidel Castro. The Top 150 Conservative Websites The Bacon Inhaler Gorby's Birthday Bash But Gorby does have some cute granddaughters though. 7 Ways to Dress Up Your Genitals Got $53,000? And if you have a bit more money, then you can get an aircraft carrier, slightly used: Britain put the mothballed carrier Ark Royal up for sale Monday on a military auction website.No minimum so if a thousand of teh morons put down $100 we could probably get us a carrier. So How Come The King James Version of the Bible Has Been So Popular? Malls, 1989 Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Tonight's post brought to you by warlocks: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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