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Thread #163388 Message #3899945
Posted By: Senoufou
16-Jan-18 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your former odd jobs
Subject: RE: BS: Your former odd jobs
There's a Russian Orthodox church (St Seraphim) in Walsingham, here in Norfolk, and I've heard their Mass - it's breathtaking, especially those low notes of the singing. Absolutely beautiful.
I do have to agree with Edinburgh Uni's insistence on a working knowledge of Latin in order to study in the Faculty of Arts. It did indeed give me a sort of key with which to understand many words I'd never met before, and we had to do Vulgar Latin (not what it sounds like - it's the transition between Latin and French) As long as we just concentrated on the basic roots of words I was perfectly happy. I just couldn't hack all those conjugations and declensions.
I admire you Steve for getting the 'O' Level. I don't know how I did it in only two years. Some Public Schools start their pupils on Latin at the age of nine. Good old Miss Bailey-Reynolds!
By the way, she was so frightfully posh that she utterly forbade us to use an Italian-type pronunciation like the Pope, but to speak in a very upper-class English accent when speaking Latin. As she pointed out, no-one knows how the Romans spoke. We were little Cockneys, so 'posh' was as much a foreign language to us as Latin.