The foreign phrase--useful and necessary?
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Sat Oct-09-10 10:54 PM
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Poll question: The foreign phrase--useful and necessary?
Edited on Sat Oct-09-10 11:11 PM by jpgray
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Sat Oct-09-10 11:07 PM
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1. Is Latin really foreign? Since nobody actually speaks Latin
as a native tongue, isn't it local wherever it is? Capisce?
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Sat Oct-09-10 11:14 PM
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Sat Oct-09-10 11:17 PM
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3. there have been a few, (very few) native speakers of Latin in modernity
children of priests, and the like......
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Sat Oct-09-10 11:20 PM
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4. As a vain person, I find them invaluable.
All you are on a message board is words. They might as well be cosmopolitan words. Soyez citoyen du monde.
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6. Schto shze yob, preeyom?
Russian for "What the fuck, over?"
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And the most useful foreign phrases of all are "mat"--the most vulgar of all Russian obscenities. Dude, they're currently producing the Great Dictionary of Mat. Twelve volumes, and the first one is dedicated to the word 'dick.'
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