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Thread #164414   Message #3934853
Posted By: Senoufou
02-Jul-18 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Floss
Subject: RE: BS: The Floss
I didn't look it up Jos, but languages are my great love.

I started studying Latin in the sixth form and got the 'O'level in two years flat. I wanted to study French in the Arts faculty at Edinburgh Uni and they wanted Latin for their 'Attestation of Fitness' (!)

My silly friends and I used to giggle at the daft stories provided by Kennedy's Latin Primer, our ancient textbook. It was full of virgins in the woods and Marcus and his mate Lucius going to the Forum.
The schoolteacher (magister) was always thrashing his pupils. I reckon he was a Roman type of perv!

I was somewhat disappointed when I got to Edinburgh to find that the lectures in 'Vulgar Latin' were not as I had supposed, but merely about the transition of Latin into French! :)