Zoe Bell

I was also forced into Latin at high school
Both of my Latin teachers wrote on my school report that I had "a lively mind"

dbd33

Hoi polloi represented here. I thought Latin was something I read about in books, Waugh and such, until we come to Canada and one of the polyglot children took it. Perhaps it's unfortunate that the one who took Latin isn't the one who now lives in Italian, knowing some Latin might have done that one a good turn.

Jingsamichty

I did Latin at school for a year, I really quite liked it. I was once able to have a conversation with a taxi driver in Rome based primarily on my sketchy memory of Latin.

Souvy

I done that with a barman in Milan, except we used French.

Lorna at Vicenza

Hopefully your sketchy Latin included numbers so that you didn't get ripped off on the price.

Jingsamichty

I gave him V denarii.

Novocastrian

Hoi polloi is ancient greek.

Novocastrian

This might just be me, but I found that a knowledge of Latin and its very different linguistic structure, to be a great help in mastering coding in many computer programming languages later in life.

bats

Shit, I've just typed a long and er, thrilling, reply but my iPad barfed and lost it. I might retype it later.

caretaker

We put a gender neutral washroom in the bar.

Shard

That's so WC.

dbd33

Of course, if it was Latin I would have used it incorrectly.

Siouxie

Having done a bit of Googling, there's some rather splendid cuss words and phrases in latin.

Just sayin'

dbd33

Τὸ ἐμὸν αερόστρωμνον ἐγχελείων πλῆρές ἐστιν !

Siouxie