"I've had vagina for dinner..." coronation

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OK wtf, just watching coronation clips and at 03.10 it sound like the choir is singing "I've had vagina for dinner..."

Tell me I'm not the only one who hears it this way.

@pussycatinfluffyslippers although I have watched a lot of West Wing (I am a decent person after all!) I actually learned it really young. Supposedly the Italians used tartaruga (turtle) to weed out the Germanic types because they couldn't roll three rs in a row. Same reason Germans can use Eichhörnchen.

Language s fun.

Did go to a public school, I should say.

Yep same here

It’s sad that you equate knowing common Latin phrases with Boris and whatever ‘the club’ means rather than just a normal thing to know. Science, the church and the law use tons of Latin for example.

@pussycatinfluffyslippers depends how you define dead! It’s technically the official language of the Vatican and I believe there are also modern day poets who still write in Latin.

It's Ecclesiastical Latin, @pussycatinfluffyslippers, which is technically a living language. Ironically, we might not know exactly how "dead" Classical Latin (as spoken by actual Romans) was pronounced but we can be pretty sure it wasn't pronounced like Ecclesiastical Latin, which is largely based on Italian pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin

I seen this on tiktok it sounded like vagina Camilla. I assumed it was a joke and they had changed it somehow.🤣🤣🤣

I was more surprised when they offered the ring to Camilla on what appeared to be a velvet covered penis.

Yes I heard the same 🙈 I didn’t watch it but someone sent me a meme

I was surprised so many people were admitting they didn't know any basic Latin. It's still taught in schools and if you go to assemblies, church, listen to classical music then it's used in hymns, chants, etc.

Latin has always been used by the aristocracy and the rest of the British establishment to place themselves above the rest of us.

Even now, when it's not the done thing to put your public school on your job application form, they put Latin on there somewhere instead - it's a signifier.

I was taught Latin at the local state school. So were my cousins (different area but also a state school).

If we are using personal references I was not taught Latin at my local state school and neither were my cousins 🤷‍♀️ which is clearly why I was hearing vagina Camilla… even though I absolutely knew they wouldn’t be singing that.

I am surprised by how many on here have never seen, read or heard the word Regina.

When they saw EIIR on postboxes etc etc didn't they wonder what is was?

Did they think Rex was just a made-up name for a dog?

I'm working class and never studied Latin in my bog standard inner city education. But I'm over 65 and have always read massively, so perhaps that makes a difference.

Shame actually as I’d have preferred Latin to French.

Um, no. The language you are thinking of is French, not Latin.

Dry that vagina camilla

And then you get those pesky Catholics, council house brats (like me) who found it another interesting language that helped decoding of other languages including English, gardeners, vets and doctors, all using it in order to ensure that they were understandable in multiple situations where there might not be a shared language lingua Franca.

Clearly a wicked elitist conspiracy to reduce knowledge by increasing understanding...

Hasn't Latin been spoken and written continuously in the Roman catholic church since Roman times? So maybe 'dead' as in 'not anyone's native language' but not 'extinct'? Being the official language of the Vatican City?

It wasn't about personal anecdotes, my post was in response to someone saying if a CV includes Latin then its code for having a private school education. It isn't. Lots of state schools taught, and still do, teach Latin.

They’re actually singing “wide backed vagina, camilla.”

😂

I think it’s the juxtaposition of the V and R in Vivat Regina that makes it so easy to mishear it. Humans are always swapping the first letters of things around, what’s it’s called - spoonerism? So Rivat Vagina.

also in English there isn’t usually anything that rhymes with “vagina” (presumably Latin too but used as a day to day word unlike Regina) so people only really need to hear the “uh-gina” bit and get confused.

As for those of you saying “well state schools teach Latin and you also hear it at church and in classical music”, no doubt in some cases that’s true but I know exactly one person under 60 who did Latin at a state school, two people who go to church and the same two people who listen to classical music. Consider the idea that most of your fellow Brits don’t have any of these experiences.

I was taught Latin in a state school, I am in Ireland though. We were taught that it would have been pronounced like veevat not vighvat. I don't remember much of the Latin I was taught though other than the first line of the first book we had which etched in my brain forever for some reason - Ecce in picture est puella, nominae Cornelia.

I think curriculum vitae is not French.

We heard wide backed vagina Camilla