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Manifestor_of_Light

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49. Too funny!

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 05:32 PM

Jan 2013

I took two years of Latin in high school and wrestling with all those cases was hard!!!

I was washing dishes with my grandmother once, and she asked me how my Latin studies were going.

Then she started conjugating "Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant"

I was amazed.

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Their you go again... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #36

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Me too. Are_grits_groceries Jan 2013 #4

Then punish them with capitals! kentauros Jan 2013 #6

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So great -- as a former Latin student, klook Jan 2013 #29

I only remember that to conjugate the verb, kentauros Jan 2013 #51

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