A man doesn't ask should I? a man does what he feel is the right thing to do.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 6 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^][v]#954,077
@previous (A)
Now share with us. What is tomorrow's plan for looking for that new job?
You said you will. Are you a man like Trump who has no honor?
Are you like the Vols football team, always a loser?
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 25 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^][v]#954,088
homework
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^][v]#954,090
Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,506
@previous (chill dog !!81dzJNNYL)
It's ludicrous how they have you move on to Greek before even remotely mastering Latin and its golden era poets. This is college for heaven's sake, not high school, you're supposed to be educated to the level of very high proficiency, not just "I know a little about it". Modern liberal arts degrees are a worthless joke.
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,507
Nobody needs to know Latin anyway
Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 16 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,510
@previous (J)
Doctors disagree with you. As do those who wish to read the classics and study classical history, archeology and civilisation.
In any case, you do sum up the modern student mindset well: "I make the choice to spend years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars studying this subject... because nobody needs to know it anyway"
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,513
Cattulus is certainly held in high regard by the hierarchy of the liberal universities as he was vulgar outspoken massive faggot.
Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 35 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,516
> Nobody needs to know anything that happened before the industrial revolution.
Which happened when and why?
Real Indy !WBBizM.tDU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,536
As the most educated forite in the fora, I can assure you that my Latin and Greek are up to snuff, as it were.
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 7 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,681
@954,506 (I)
i'm not doing a liberal arts degree
additionally my focus isn't on languages it's history
i just need 9 credits of ancient languages which will be satisfied with intro latin 1, intro greek 1, intro greek 2
also i'd care more if i were going to continue with classics post-undergrad but i'm moving into archaeology
not classical archaeology
Anonymous G replied with this 7 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,686
> i'm not doing a liberal arts degree > additionally my focus isn't on languages it's history > i just need 9 credits of ancient languages which will be satisfied with intro latin 1, intro greek 1, intro greek 2 > also i'd care more if i were going to continue with classics post-undergrad but i'm moving into archaeology > not classical archaeology
Fair enough then.
Still, for your own pleasure, I recommend you return to the works of Catullus, Ovid, Horace and Virgil later on when you have more time to immerse yourself in them. There is unfathomable beauty within them. The accumulated wisdom of humankind I would say.
Anonymous G replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,703
@954,693 (L)
He's already an expert. He got "hands on" training in China.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,713
Have you ever had a nightmare that you became a real archaeologist and after just a few short years you found every thing there was to find and there was nothing left..
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Anonymous G replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,715
Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,779
@previous (J) > 1830, everything before then is irrelevant.
Is that because that's the year God's Prophet Joseph Smith first published a new testament of Jesus Christ and formed the only true church of restored Christianity?
Anonymous J replied with this 7 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,789
There were railways almost 2 decades before 1830. You'd know that if you weren't clueless about history.
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#954,858
@954,701 (I)
oh yeah i'd like to read catullus in the original
i plan on continuing to do some latin on my own time post-graduation but we'll see how that goes
i really did enjoy latin, more than greek tbh, just fucked up that second semester really bad
Anonymous J replied with this 7 years ago, 4 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#954,891
> oh yeah i'd like to read catullus in the original > i plan on continuing to do some latin on my own time post-graduation but we'll see how that goes > i really did enjoy latin, more than greek tbh, just fucked up that second semester really bad
I found and find Latin to have a kind of purity that cluttered Greek doesn't have. Last year I visited Sermione on the bank of Lake Garda and read Catullus' elegies in the very spot he composed them, looking out over the water and distant Dolomite mountains that inspired him. A wonderful experience, almost transcendental. To read Latin is to be transported back to the golden age of mankind.
Anonymous I double-posted this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#954,925
> I wouldn't call it a golden age but i agree with you that Latin is a much...neater language than Greek.
Come now. Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what more could the Romans have ever done for us?
Anonymous J replied with this 7 years ago, 3 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#955,042
> > I wouldn't call it a golden age but i agree with you that Latin is a much...neater language than Greek. > > Come now. Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what more could the Romans have ever done for us?