As someone who took like 4 years of Latin in high school I have same issues lol. Its not a crazy post, but dumb!
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Caecilius est in hortō. Caecilius in hortō sedet. Canis in atrio est. Canis in atrio laborat.
What a great tale, even got to see his villa in Pompeii! I remember being so blown and sad when the whole family's arc just fucking ends. What a way to learn.
Pretty nice looking villa, I had no idea he lived there!
Also, he apparently died in 62AD in an earthquake, before the Vesuvius covered the place in 79AD
Yeah that was a rug pull lol, although I think the curriculum changed the year I graduated, so we were the last to learn about good caecilius.
Ah yes, latin, the native language in latin america, which 'muricans confuse for mexican all the time.
Hey, Spanish is basically modern Latin! Lol
Would be so cool if that was actually true.
People used to post this kind of stuff in order to troll but the barrier to enter internet discourse has been reduced to a level where even face value statements are catching friendly fire.
From my perspective there are only three types of internet posts.
Inauthentic fake stories for likes. Rage inducing troll bait. Idiot posting.
You know, I was raised conservative Catholic in the Midwest. Grew up really sheltered in that regard. I specifically remember driving with my family back from church when I was a kid, and my parents had the radio on. The news story mentioned the rising popularity of Latin music. I thought it odd that Gregorian chants and Latin hymns were apparently having a surge in popularity among the general public.
Oh, and then there was the time I got really confused when the priest started talking about the evils of the Youth in Asia. I thought it might be anti-Chinese communist thing. But I couldn't figure out why the priest would have an entire homily talking about the evils of specifically the young people of Asia. Just so oddly specific.
I did have a youth group leader that was quite hostile to east (or probably all of) Asia. He went off on me once when he caught me talking about Judo, berated me about engaging with all that esoteric shit (his words, not mine) and how it's all unchristian and godless and such.
There was nothing spiritual about my dojo, unless you want to consider bowing to one another an act of ritual significance rather than just courtesy and respect. A respect my parish was decidedly lacking, but when you're an impressionable kid, having a supposed religious authority put the literal fear of God in you is quite effective at making you question your own judgement rather than others' hypocrisy.
I'll publicly embarrass myself here: what's the context for the youth in Asia thing?
It's an old SNL skit from the 70s
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Does it count as a native language if you learn it through old latin chorus music in your youth, alongside whatever spoken language?
English is technically my 4th spoken language, 2nd written language, but since I learned it as a kid, and I have fluency and its also my primary language, I'm just gonna call myself a native speaker, since I practically am.
It's* also
Listen here you little shit...
I can almost guarantee that your grasp of English is better than their grasp of your first spoken language.
Yea probably. I see Chinese characters and my head spin. I could technically read most basic characters, but my education caps at 2nd grade. So... yeah 🤷♂️
But I still like the "English is my 4th language" excuse lol. Simultaneously low-key bragging and also kinda make it slightly harder for a person to make fun of me.
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