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Date:      07 Apr 2000 19:08:33 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSDCon East
Message-ID:  <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:50:57 %2B0200"
References:  <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]>

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Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> 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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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