My son aced his Latin test!!!

[RandySF]

So sorry for the boast but he worked so hard to prepare for it. It's getting late here and I had to tell SOMEONE!!

[chillfactor]

1. Congratulations to your son...

well done!

[MLAA]

2. Good for him and his proud parent!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That is wonderful news! Congratulations to your son, my dear RandySF!

What grade level is he?

Latin is tough!

[RandySF]

6. Sixth. I think theyre scouting for priests.

[pnwmom]

12. LOL. My kids had a year of Latin before taking French or Spanish. Didn't seem to hurt them.

[TexasProgresive]

17. I aced the vocabulary portion of the SAT

I give credit to 4 years of Latin, but that didn't come until middle age. I thought it was because of being a reader. What opened my eyes to the value of Latin was 2 words I ran across that I couldn't wrap my mind around. I knew the definition of them but they weren't my friends. After a while it dawned on me, the were Greek to me because they came directly from Greek.

I guess my point is, there is real value in studying Latin. I "remember" very little like I can decline to be in the present tense, but most of the rest has gone away. A friend of mine gave me some proverbs to play with that were fun. Here's one I remember.
vir prudens non in ventum mingit My translation: A prudent (wise) man does not piss in the wind.

[unblock]

4. euge ut filius tuus!

[nycbos]

5. Conjugations to your son.

Was his Latin teacher like John Cleese.

Romani ite domum

Sorry couldn't resist.

[Docreed2003]

7. Niiiiice!! Congrats!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Sweeeeet!! Gratulor tibi de hac gloria!!!

[left-of-center2012]

9. Congratulations

Will he be working in Latin America?

[napi21]

10. Congrats to your son! That's a tough class. I remember taking it back when I was

in HS. I got good grades back then (almost 60 years ago). I never thought it was a class to remember but I find it still helps me a lot because so many English words have Latin roots. Congrats again and i wish you luck in future studies.

[llmart]

21. Same here.

I took two years of Latin in high school (that's all they offered) and I can honestly say that learning Latin helped me in so many ways throughout my life. I can figure out what many words in other languages mean because of my years of Latin. It helps with English words too. Or medical terminology. Or botanical names of plants. I could go on.

I am so glad I took it.

[burrowowl]

11. Congrats to your son!

And long live Latin! Bravo!!!!!
What is difficult is Renaissance Latin with many hypax legonomen, De Re Metallica is a fascinating book and well looking into!

[WePurrsevere]

13. Congratulations!...

It's a difficult language in some ways but I think you will find over his lifetime that it was very worth taking it.

Taking Latin as a freshman in high school, 1974, was one of my better decisions. It helped me immensely in nursing and lasted me all these years.

[TEB]

14. Awesome

[Lochloosa]

15. Congratulationes tibi ago

[TexasProgresive]

16. Quid musca! Congrats to RandySFson.

What year is he in?

BTW "quid musca" is a bad translation of my 1st year Latin teacher's favorite expresion when we exasperated him, "What the fly." I suspect he wanted to say something else with the same initials, WTF, eh? Anyway we would chant it all together when he would announce a pop test.

[Paladin]

18. I hope he gets a chance to read Caesar's war commentaries.

That's the only thing that got me through high school Latin---they were genuinely interesting.

[raven mad]

19. DEFINITELY BOAST.

I got schooled in it from a very young age. And as a result learned a lot. And WOW WOW GO kid of your! RandySF? Had to have backup like you.

[whistler162]

20. ongratulations-cay

[rurallib]

22. now there's some Latin!

[mulsh]

23. Bene factum hominibus opus est multo Keep Latinitatis studiosos fecimus opus bonum

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