Dreams Thread

[Croghan27]

I had just watched a program on the Roman Emperor Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, an unpleasant man who came to an unpleasant end.
(I keep wanting to make a pun using the words "Commodus" and commode.)
 
Perhaps the residue of that precipitated the (short) Roman soldiers - where the Siamese twin came from is beyond me. 
 
Holly, your knowledge of Latin is impressive .... my father who was fluent in Latin (and read ancient Greek) used to quote how English school boys would note that Latin is a dead language ... it killed the Romans and now its' killing me. 

[Holly Stick]

Much of my knowledge of Latin tags comes from the Asterix comics; I expect the British translators had had to learn Latin when they were children. 
 

 
I took one course in Latin in university and wished I had taken it before trying to learn French; it would have made that easier.
 

 
http://www.asterix.com/gallery/smilix/

[sparqui]

Love Asterix.

My mom had a spattering of knowledge of Latin (old world schooling and mass I guess). She said it came in very handy when she worked at the National Defence Hospital's secretarial pool.

[Holly Stick]

Whenever the subject of Latin came up, my dad would grin and say "Amo, amas, amat."  He probably used that on all his girlfriends.