Trying to learn Latin.

[LuckyCharms]

Crappy Diem.

[GReedDiamond]

1. I thinng its spelt crape...nt

[mountain grammy]

2. Amo amas amat

I took one year in high school. Damn I’m old.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

5. Ego amo te

Only Latin I need to know

My first boyfriend told me this when I was 15.

[LuckyCharms]

15. Well well well, a bragger who went to high school.

I quit in 9th grade because the classes were too easy for me and I was bored. So I started my own business that I was very successful at. I don't mean I made a lot of money...I mean that I enjoyed it. My business consisted of me smoking weed.

I'm not dumb though, I'm very smart. I self-smarted myself.

[mountain grammy]

16. Ha..sounds like a great business to me

At 72 it's my favorite pastime

[mbusby]

3. Repeat after me...

Caput tuum plena saxa...

[Captain Zero]

4. Student poem

Latin is a Dead Language,
It's very plain to see,
It killed off all the Romans,
And now it's killing me.

[Captain Zero]

6. Alia iacta est !

Tempus Fugit.
Agricola est in arura.

[unblock]

7. I once had a $10 per diem

I'm told that's crappy, but it was better than nothing....

[eShirl]

8. sick (sic) semper tyrannis

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Hang in there. I'm a bit sorry I never actually took Latin, but I like to tell people

that I grew up Catholic back in the day of the Latin mass.

I think the best thing about it will be you'll get a good overall feel for grammar, and you'll pick up a lot of vocabulary.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I am proud to have gotten 40% on my Latin final exam

One should always strive to XL.

[Paladin]

11. Caesar's commentaries on wars are worthwhile reading.

"Galia est omnes divisa in partes tres......"

Fifty years after my high school Latin classes, and I can still imperfectly dredge up bits of it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I can still conjugate first and second conjugation verbs after 50+ years,

but mostly forgot the other two conjugations.

[LuckyCharms]

14. What are verbs?

Oh wait! I remember! Action words, like...

Person
Woman
Man
Camera
TV

And an adverb is when you use a verb in an advertisement.

in vino veritas!

[nuxvomica]

21. I remember it as "Gallia divida in tripartem est."

I'm sure that's not right. I took three years of Latin in high school.

[Paladin]

22. I went back and looked it up.

"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All of Gaul is divided into three parts&quot

Funny: I was listening to ancient Latin just the other day---the gorgeous choral/orchestral "Non Nobis Domine" music from from Kenneth Branaugh's "Henry V" movie. It's the music that plays as King Henry walks across the battlefield after defeating the French at Agincort. Great Shakespeare, great movie, great music. Worth a listen, available online.

[onethatcares]

12. find a time machine

transport yourself back to early 1960s, find a Catholic School in Pennsylvania and become an Altar Boy..........I can plany dominos better than you can...Ahhhhhhmen.

[Harker]

17. I have a time machine...

but I can't remember when I parked it.

[onethatcares]

20. if it was parked in

Philadelphia PA, it's in the lot furthest from the spot you last saw it. Take cash, Visa hasn't been invented yet.

[Harker]

23. Could've been Chicago...

The last thing I remember was Nate Applewhite nodding his acknowledgement of my unspoken thanks.

Good tip! Cash is important in recent times.

[onethatcares]

24. no one in the 60s

will have an aversion to cash money. They'd think you are an elitist if you tried to pay by credit card. The public hadn't learned to pay 18% of their bills to banks for the sole purpose of Mr. Banker buying a new yacht or three.

Good gaud, life has changed............who would want to touch that dirty filthy paper or metal? If you have any of either, please send it to me in a plain brown wrapper like porn used to be shipped...?, do you pay the vig or do I?

[Harker]

25. I'm sorry. I'll keep it close.

Filthy though it may be, I'm never very comfy without some lettuce in my wallet.

Let 'em stare in wonder.

[Harker]

18. You mean Vietnamese?

[Harker]

19. So you favored the coup

and his assassination?

That's hardcore, Lucky.