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Love it, JM! Too right…
Thank you, ma’am.
Had a similar experience as far as being too late to get Latin and Greek classes. I had to settle for Laughing and Grief, instead.
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Now available for viewing on Amazon. I doubt it’s aged well…
It’s pretty awful. It was mostly up-to-the-second topical humor, most of which you won’t get because you haven’t just experienced one specific week in 1968. The only parts that work are some of the classic skits, like Gladys and the old perve on the park bench, and Ernestine from the telephone company.
LOL. Oh don’t worry. I remember.
Here comes the Judge….
Oh yeah, the chicks go-go dancing in bikinis still works, too.
I prefer Webster’s, thank you very much.
The British were wary of the coinage of the new word “television”, roughly 100 years ago, because it was half Greek and half Latin.
Television sets for sale in early 1932, 85 years ago.
In our school system, you could study all the Latin you wanted, especially if you were considering a career of celebrating Mass.
Or unifying France and dominating Europe.
Totally American thing to do, though. And the one part of the class that I remember least is which are Latin and which are Greek, unless there is one for each.
Russian, Serbian, even Czech take lots of cues from Greek. “Kine”, same root as kinetic, is movement, the key attribute of motion pictures, so across the former USSR the movies are “Kino”. In the Romance languages it has a soft sound as cine, or cinema.
TV terminology continues to mix up Latin and Greek root words. “Telecine”, with a soft c, is a film projector with a TV camera to show movies on TV; its reverse, a Kinescope, with a hard k, is a film made off a TV screen. The first practical TV camera tube was the Iconoscope (which sounds really sinister in 1936 German TV as Die Ikonoskop).
I recall an older woman who worked at my office years ago. She decided during her middle years to take some courses at the local community college. She took a history course and aced it easily. The younger students asked her how she was able to do so well. She replied, “I learned all that in the fifth grade in parochial school.” Languages were not all the schools used to teach.
I thought kine were cattle.
I know exactly what Yer saying, Judge. Same Here.
I’m figuring I’m a few years younger than You, so I’m surprised this wasn’t taught earlier to You. I was doing this beginning in Mrs. Bailey’s 3rd grade class and on.
From the Germanic roots, yes, but not from the Greek.
Ha! My family had a set of Funk and Wagnalls and I remember them lined up in the bookshelf. I used to just browse through them. They had the first three letters of the first and last entry in each volume on the spine. My older brother (of course!) had me convinced that these 6 letter ‘words’ were actual words. I still remember ‘PRI-SOU’, but I can’t remember his made up definition for it.
But to your original point – I said this in a comment on the languages post, but one of my most useful Engineering courses was in Bio-Medical Engineering. Each week we had to learn a set of medical terms and take them apart by the prefixes.
I can even hear it in Dick Martin’s voice.
Mine is on a shelf behind me. Still have it.
My studies in medical and legal subjects have had the same effect. And it has been a huge benefit. Mrs. Quietpi, however, who actually did take Latin in high school, can out-do me any time.
I expect that would be true, but in schools that just don’t offer it anymore, a class like this will put kids way ahead of the game.
I graduated from a modern high school with 2300 students in Prince George’s County in 1969. I don’t recall Latin being offered.
Latin was mandatory when I was in Jr. High school, 1951-53. The 2nd year I took French. Between both languages I can decipher most English words I’m not familiar with. Cannot speak either Latin nor French today.
Forgot to add that I learned more English in my Latin class than I did in my English class. A better understanding of English.
True conservatives go with first edition Strunk.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37134
I also took Latin in the fifties. Since I am dyslexic I have had extreme problems with spelling. If it hadn’t been for the Latin I think it would have been ultra extreme. It was a miracle that I managed to study both Spanish and French in high school and college but I think with out the Latin that would not have happened.
Me, too…Wondered if that influenced your nom de R>, actually, JM. :-)
I have severe hearing problems since age 4, have gone through periods of total deafness, regained some of my hearing and had to relearn to speak again. For some reason, English just scrambled my brain, but the Latin did more than the speech therapy. I’ve always been grateful for it. In my old age, I am losing my word recognition abilities of word sounds. It seems that what you just said, is definitely not what I heard. It’s beginning to cause serous problems with my family.
Nope. My given name means judge. The mental part just seemed to fit.
Ah, no offense meant, hopefully none taken… :-)
I don’t know why I would find offense in something like that.