2026-10-09 18:56 UTC
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@rvedotrc@tech.lgbt 2026-10-09 18:57
@britt@mstdn.games I wanted to take Latin at school. Most disappointed when they wouldn't let me.
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@zersiax@cupoftea.social 2026-10-09 19:23
@britt@mstdn.games I'd say, it depends on two things: do you want a language you can actually speak and use in day-to-day life, that's obviously French. Do you want to learn a kind of meta language that shows where a lot of other languages including English gets some of its oddities from? Latin. The thing with Latin is that it's a more synthetic language; that basically means rather than word order, the way a noun is inflected using grammatical cases decides what it does in a sentence, i.e., this is how you indicate a sentence's subject, direct object, that thing A belongs to thing B, etc. It's a bit of a brain bender if you aren't used to it but it's super enriching if you ever run into other languages that work like this, which is quite a few of them