Thread 15 Starmer - Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

[DuncinToffee]

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thanks for new thread!

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee.
Currently incapussitated so my tax this thread is a cat on my lap at this moment.

Thank you Duncin. Here’s my tax.

Just to say my final word on the Latin!

I was trying, maybe clumsily,to suggest the word 'may' was doing much heavy lifting in that Guardian headline. Of the state schools which offer Latin,most are grammars. There are, that I know of, about 10 comps offering. Of those, I know of 4 that use the Cambridge Classics programme. So, I am not sure the panic is warranted.

I totally agree about elitism. We have tried really hard to keep Latin going but the numbers are falling off a cliff. It's STEM obsession really.

Helloooooo! The big fat tabby says hi.

locus notati ...

Am pondering whether anyone will report the thread title after inferring they are the bastardes

Cattus tributum.

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee

Gratias tibi ago for the new thread!

Cat tax - sadly not my cat nor my photo but thought we could do with a larf!

Ne nothi te atterant.

Thank you for the new thread.

My tax is an 'umble spud.

It"s Catty Worth 🤣 (showing my age).

I don't know what its purpose is now. Latin used to be the language of the ruling class. Now evidently it is a skill with computing that will shape that ruling class.

Checking in. I don't have a cat 😺

Thanks for the new thread. Going to pay dog tax this time with Lilli-Mae, the pocket bully I walked today. This is her demanding her cuddle tax, which she does about every 5 mins, so I thought she was appropriate.

Thank you for the new thread Duncinmy thanks to all contributors & as ever flowers from me.

Am scurrying off to Google translate!

Tax paid.

Why on earth would Google waste time with translating a useless language like Latin ? Clearly they don't have the same view as some posters here.

(Admittedly they don't have ancient Greek. So that was a wasted term learning the alphabet).

@SerendipityJane - I am firmly of the view that Latin is a waste of time. The fact that Enoch Powell had considerable facilities in classics did not save him from being a racist.

Thanks for the new thread Duncin.

Dog is sleeping so here is some nice cheese.

Not so topical anymore but this is the last picture I took of the boys just before we took the tree down.

I also studied Latin at a state comprehensive in Glasgow in the late 70s - for both O Grade and Higher (we were able to do 6 Highers, so I was able to keep it equal Arts and Sciences: English, French, Latin, Maths, Physics, Chemistry). I'm glad I did it as it helped me when I went on to study French and Russian at Uni - but I wouldn't say it was an essential subject. Any heavily declined living language would have served the same purpose.

I got an A for for both exams (despite only having re-started it after returning from 2 years in NZ 6 months before the "O" grades ) - but only because I am an excellent rote learner

I am clearly an uneducated heathen as I have no idea of what you are all saying!

Thank you for the new thread. I was fortunate enough to see a murmuration a couple of years ago (in a supermarket car park of all places). Here is a screenshot from the video that I took.

The Scots all did Latin in the 70s and 80s whilst the Welsh were learning Russian! Preparing for the revolution , I presume.