They want the shirt of your back ....

[Worthy4England]

Because of where this thread has headed, there's a horrible part of my brain that has started repeating over and over again....

-bam; -bas, -bat, -barmus, -bartis, -bant

-amo, -amas, -amat, -amamus, -amatis, -amant

and to this day I never worked out what pluperfect was......

gratias ago polus ut est totus secundum mihi

I blame YOU enfieldwhite for starting this all off by mentioning the school motto in the first place

i isti it imus istis erunt

...when I think of all the hours I wasted........

[communistworkethic]

grumio est in horto

[Worthy4England]

grumio est in horto

5 fecking years of Latin and double Latin....all because I "had to take a Language"....

[bobo the clown]

There you go!

You were a member of the Secret Service, Zulu?

Indeed, a shy Thornleigh boy, TD.

Didn't they just have the deer head on the badge without all that other stuff though? Looks like page one of a freemason manual.

The deer head was the 1st-5th year badge ... shit-brown blazer.

The full, double crest badge, as shown was the 6th form badge, neat, elegant black blazer.

If you were VERY special (a-hem, look's around realises he was the only one present) and you were Head-Boy or Deputy Head-Boy you got an enamel lapel badge of the double version.

Still have it somewhere.

Now ... get yer cap on you snivvling little oik. And why have you got LONG trousers ?? What How did you ever pass your entrance exam ?? do you mean you're the Head of Chemistry ????

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Because of where this thread has headed, there's a horrible part of my brain that has started repeating over and over again....

-bam; -bas, -bat, -barmus, -bartis, -bant

Pim - Pis - Pit

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Had no choice but to do Latin for the first two years. Notably, my final exam result was 14%, which made them give up on me. Amusingly, it wasn't my lowest result that year (got 10% in an RE exam, most of which I spent diligently colouring in a map of Galilee).

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

You took it to A level and still failed to avoid tautology? I took it at A level as well, and failed O level French the first two times I took it. Given where I ended up better fluency in French might have been helpful.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

You took it to A level and still failed to avoid tautology? I took it at A level as well, and failed O level French the first two times I took it. Given where I ended up better fluency in French might have been helpful.

Oh dear... that's what comes of doing two things at once.

Anyway, tautology is a Greek word, as you well know! (And that's another subject I took what you might call an O Level in.)

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

Of course it's not actually good for the soul, but it's worth studying and the search for direct 'utility' misses the point somewhat.

[Worthy4England]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

Of course it's not actually good for the soul, but it's worth studying and that the search for direct 'utility' misses the point somewhat.

The only practical use for it that I found after 5 years of hard slog in a subject I was forced to take because all the other languages clashed with sciences, is that it hepled me see the funny side of the scene in the Life of Brian..where Brian daubs the walls...

[TANGODANCER]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

Funny, as an altar boy for eight years I answered the mass almost every day of the week in Latin. Mind you, it was more parrot -fashion than knowing what the hell I was on about. Sounded good though to the congregation.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

You took it to A level and still failed to avoid tautology? I took it at A level as well, and failed O level French the first two times I took it. Given where I ended up better fluency in French might have been helpful.

Now French I was forced to take a year early, and passed. I was then forced to do an OA Level (no, me either) in French For Business Studies, which I also passed. Neither has been of any use to me except garnering scorn in Gallic hell-holes where attempting to speak the local language seems to have an effect roughly equivalent to urinating on the corpse of the listener's mother.

Given my time again, I'd like to have done Spanish, but then given my time again, there'd be lots of other things I'd be altering first

[CrazyHorse]

I had to do latin at secondary school for the first couple of years. Absolute pointless bollox.
It should be banished from modern education like all the other dead languages such as Welsh, Esperanto and COBOL.

[CAPSLOCK]

I had to do latin at secondary school for the first couple of years. Absolute pointless bollox.
It should be banished from modern education like all the other dead languages such as Welsh, Esperanto and COBOL.

He's reet

Though I do like those grolling sounds

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I had to do latin at secondary school for the first couple of years. Absolute pointless bollox.
It should be banished from modern education like all the other dead languages such as Welsh, Esperanto and COBOL.

He's reet

Though I do like those grolling sounds

They're quite fun to sing in a Lancastrian accent

[Montreal Wanderer]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

You took it to A level and still failed to avoid tautology? I took it at A level as well, and failed O level French the first two times I took it. Given where I ended up better fluency in French might have been helpful.

Oh dear... that's what comes of doing two things at once.

Anyway, tautology is a Greek word, as you well know! (And that's another subject I took what you might call an O Level in.)

Hmm, the OED give the etymology as [ad. late L. tautologia (c350 in Mar. Plotin. Sacerd.), although it clearly came form the Greek. How about redundancy? Fortunately I avoided classical Greek with the same dexterity that I avoided the modern.

[boltonboris]

Everyone should study Latin - it's good for the soul. I ended up taking it to A-level in the end but I will admit that part of me wishes I'd become more proficient in French or German.

I heard the other day that Latin is still compulsory for all German kids... and given their language skills I'd say they're doing something right.

You took it to A level and still failed to avoid tautology? I took it at A level as well, and failed O level French the first two times I took it. Given where I ended up better fluency in French might have been helpful.

Oh dear... that's what comes of doing two things at once.

Anyway, tautology is a Greek word, as you well know! (And that's another subject I took what you might call an O Level in.)

Hmm, the OED give the etymology as [ad. late L. tautologia (c350 in Mar. Plotin. Sacerd.), although it clearly came form the Greek. How about redundancy? Fortunately I avoided classical Greek with the same dexterity that I avoided the modern.

I know the feeling, I was the same in English!!

[Bruce Rioja]

The Stag's Head was on the Blazer pocket, TD.

I thought it was on Deane Road.