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Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	MarieCeleste	Report	14 Dec 2013 01:32
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	Amazed myself at getting 90%. Learning Latin and Greek at school gave me a better comprehension of the English language.
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 3,688 Send Message	Tenerife Sun	Report	13 Dec 2013 23:13
	inebriabo de lacrima, quam :-D
	Researching: Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	13 Dec 2013 18:48
	risum ebrius :-D
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 6,330 Send Message	JustJohn	Report	13 Dec 2013 18:14
	St Paul's idle talk got him into danger, Rollo. Next translation, please. Too easy, that one. ;-)
	Researching: Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	13 Dec 2013 14:16
	Scientia dicitur esse periculosum paulo
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 6,330 Send Message	JustJohn	Report	13 Dec 2013 12:27
	Got per se and alias and ad hoc wrong. 85% Quite pleased, but (unlike Guinevere) it was one of my favourite subjects at my alma mater. Have just been reading a biography of a Victorian Latin tutor who uses Latin expressions in both his writing and his poetry. And I felt like a total ignoramus, as I had no real idea what he was on about. I blame my Latin teacher at school - not the student's fault if the tutor has failed to teach him or her properly :-) ;-) Thanks for that mental test, Rollo. Makes a change from usual bellum belli bello bellorum bellatis bellant (or something similar) :-)
	Researching: Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	13 Dec 2013 11:26
	70% - and no Latin Lessons :-D Although our Math Teacher probably did tell us the Latin and its translation for QED, we used to say 'Quite Easily Done'
	Researching: Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	13 Dec 2013 11:21
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	Illegitimi non carborundum :-D This site is very interesting (but not very useful): http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Latin
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	BrendafromWales	Report	13 Dec 2013 09:23
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	Oh dear......I got an O.level in Latin and only got 60% in the test...My excuse is that I was out last night till midnight....and it was 1951 when I got my O level!!! In those days you had to have Latin to go to university....how times have changed! Quod erat demonstrandum..........QED....remember that one from maths! :-S
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	13 Dec 2013 07:56
	90%, (I got ad lib and alias wrong), but not bad for someone who failed latin o-level.
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 3,688 Send Message	Tenerife Sun	Report	13 Dec 2013 07:34
	75% never did Latin but I have a reasonable understanding of Spanish which helped. I can't believe I got ad lib wrong!
	Researching: Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 15,575 Send Message	Guinevere	Report	13 Dec 2013 06:13
	100% - and I was awful at Latin but good at English.
	Researching: Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	13 Dec 2013 01:00
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	never did Latin 70% probably got that cos I can yabber in Italian (not fluent!) Do I get a red white & green star? :-)
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	13 Dec 2013 00:38
	65% - and never did Latin
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	13 Dec 2013 00:07
	:-(55%
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 3,549 Send Message	Nolls from Harrogate	Report	12 Dec 2013 22:56
	Now Latin is a language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me Even my Latin teacher saw the funny side when she looked at the back of my jotter ... 60% maybe :-(
	Researching: Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,311 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	12 Dec 2013 22:43
	80% - I knew all the legal ones as I've been reading criminology stuff for 30 years :-D
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	12 Dec 2013 22:40
	When did you do Double Dutch ? My OH swears at me in French ( which I understand ) and Spanish, which I don't. She got 100% and is now confirmed in her idea of y.t. as an imbecile :-( She has been singing rude songs in Latin ... I had no idea she was a Frankie Howard fan. It pains me to say so but I think Latin should be much more widely taught in schools, not Mandarin Chinese as the p.m. wants.
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 3,229 Send Message	GlasgowLass	Report	12 Dec 2013 20:43
	1974: School timetable onThursdays: Double English, followed by Double French LUNCH Double Spanish followed by Double Latin By Thursday evening, I was very confused.... which is probably why I scored 60%
	Researching: Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont / Lamond/ Fyfe/ Pollock/ Johnston/Struthers/ Smith. Scotland. Avi: Hand Fasting or Tying The Knot. Daughters wedding 2016
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	Jane	Report	12 Dec 2013 20:42
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 25,620 Send Message	50% for me and I did Latin for a few terms at school and always came bottom of the class.Even though I quite enjoyed the language.I'm happy enough wit h50% after more than 40 years..Thought I would get ZERO lol

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