MikeL

Of course it is unnecessary, in the same way that learning to spell correctly is unnecessary, or learning anything at all: if you want to find out something, just Google it.

That does not mean that learning Latin is useless, or undesirable.

Digius

Actually learning Latin (not to fluently speak Latin, of course, just getting the grip with some words and constructions) is really important for neolatin languages speakers...even knowing a bit of Greek and Latin helps you to understand a lot of words that originates from these languages!

I would like to ask you a question, maybe two...have you ever seen an "hospital" TV serial...like "House" or "Emergency Rooms"?...have you ever wondered where medical therms comes from Greek or Latin?

I mean...including "medical" and "medicine" and "medic" and so on...

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MikeL

Perhaps if Platypus knew some Greek he would realise that his comment is as "flat-footed" as his name...

Digius

grazie caro, molto gentile!

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abu_dana

Hi,
Excuse me for interrupting you, but in this sense "gentile" means not pagan right?? Because I know in English "gentile" means pagan. I feel somehow that you didn't mean pagan.


Hello, Vessi.
Yes I have heard about it. I agree with Lina's definition Esperanto is more artificial language than dead.
It can be regarded as dead in a way that no nation speaks it, may be?

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Digius

Well...no, in italian "gentile" has the common meaning of polite, gentle...in this ironic use the meaning would be straight the opposite...The other meaning of the word is "not belonging to the Jewish people" and can be find in the Bible, used to decribe the Romans in the New Testament.

Anyway the Italian word for pagan is..."pagano" from the Latin "pagus", village, apparently because in the Middle Ages the ancient religions still existed in isolated villages while Christianity was spreading in Europe...or at least they have told me so during the high school

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abu_dana

OK. Understood. Thank you for this piece of information.

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