Caecilius Pater Est

In my day we didn't have nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative and locative as these were deemed too hard. Instead they were called "Form A", "Form B" etc.

Kind of ironic given that you could work out what nominative meant by knowing a little Latin - not an option if you call it "Form A". Also, the cases in German retained their proper names. And the difficult bit for the linguistically challenged isn't the names of the cases but the concept of cases. But I digress.

"And God called the Light Day, and the darkness He called Night, and so He passed His GCSE"

Posted By: Partial Angler on November 30th 2006 at 12:17:42

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FAO CB41 and the arse-bandits (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:02:43
- I did Latin 'O'-level (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Nov 30, 12:09:57
  - Yes! (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:12:35
  - I did a Latin dance. (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, Nov 30, 12:11:25
- I thought it was the Greeks who thought it ok for young boys (General Chat) - Stoopish, Nov 30, 12:07:41
  - Nope. Twas also acceptable to take one's page up the Roman. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 30, 12:12:46
    - .... (General Chat) - Stoopish, Nov 30, 12:19:43
      - I'm not arguing that they didn't take it up the Greek as well. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 30, 12:21:47
        
        What about up the Dutch? (General Chat) - Stoopish, Nov 30, 12:23:02
        
        Oh dear no thank you. Although I'm told there are those who do. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 30, 12:23:49
- Et tu Brutus? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Gregg, Nov 30, 12:06:21
  - "brute" (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:13:45
    - Caecilius Pater Est (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Nov 30, 12:17:42
      - I remember dear old Caecilius (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:21:04
        
        I thought it was the 1st language when you were a kid, OG ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 30, 12:23:12
        
        I predate the Romans (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:24:19
- Excellent. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 30, 12:05:32
  - He probably didn't show it to her (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 30, 12:09:38
- Good Lord (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 30, 12:04:31

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