Comments on: Latin Comeback http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2008/10/07/latin-comeback/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Daniel http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2008/10/07/latin-comeback/comment-page-1/#comment-128544 Daniel Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:07:46 +0000 http://www.tinmanic.com/?p=2977#comment-128544 In my Latin classes in college we never really had conversations, although my professor (who referred to himself as Flavius) gave us each Latin names that stuck with us in every subsequent class we took with him. I was Titus. Based on his name, I often like to extend it to Titus Flavius, which let me pretend I was the Emperor Vespasian. :) Our exam questions, however, were all in Latin and he'd ask us to do things in Latin: e.g., if he wanted us to translate something into Latin or read aloud in Latin he'd say "<i>Latine, quaeso</i>." It was fun. I loved how he could take a discussion of a random word or grammar principloe and turn it into a rant/debate on some political or environmental issue. In my Latin classes in college we never really had conversations, although my professor (who referred to himself as Flavius) gave us each Latin names that stuck with us in every subsequent class we took with him. I was Titus. Based on his name, I often like to extend it to Titus Flavius, which let me pretend I was the Emperor Vespasian. :)

Our exam questions, however, were all in Latin and he’d ask us to do things in Latin: e.g., if he wanted us to translate something into Latin or read aloud in Latin he’d say “Latine, quaeso.”

It was fun. I loved how he could take a discussion of a random word or grammar principloe and turn it into a rant/debate on some political or environmental issue.

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