From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 10: 8:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3306C37BAAE for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA76775; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 19:08:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Brad Knowles Cc: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Apr 2000 19:08:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:50:57 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > So I have to learn Latin before I can learn French? No, but knowing Latin (even just a little Latin) helps a lot. It also helps a lot for learning English, Spanish, Italian and, to a lesser degree, several other European languages. > I may be wrong, but I don't think they teach it that way in > schools in France, There's at least one year of compulsory "introduction to Latin and Greek", the aim of which is to teach the children the basis of etymology, language evolution etc., which is a great help for a) understanding words you've never heard before, b) figuring out how to spell them, c) figuring out how to use (decline etc.) them, and d) getting some of the more obscure jokes in Astérix :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message