A GIFT FOR YULETIDE.......

[DuncaninFrance]

.............from my cousin in Australia who sent us some money to buy " a nice present"
I matched it with a money off voucher and bought 6 red for Elaine and 6 white for me of the local wines.
Not going to start on them until 25 December.

[Aughnanure]

Vinum laetificat cor hominis.

[DuncaninFrance]

You betcha Eoin!!!

[Niner]

We don't have many members here now days but at least we are probably the only milsurp site where it is remotely likely for a prominent member from one country to show an image of a selection of French wines in a post and it is responded to by a prominent member from the other side of the earth in a different hemisphere with a latin phrase of approval.

[Niner Delta]

Vinum laetificat cor hominis.

I had to google the translation, so .... Bourbon lateificat cor hominis .........

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[Aughnanure]

Och! Aye!!

[Niner]

Is latin studied by any school students now days? I went to an all boys high school where the top class took Latin for a couple of years as a language....a dead language I guess. I wasn't in the top class.

[DuncaninFrance]

Didn't do Latin at my school but when I was in the TA my Platoon had a Latin Motto;

"Confort super omnia" and it was applied wherever possible!!

[Niner Delta]

We could choose between Latin or Spanish, one year of your choice mandatory to graduate. Took 2 years of
Spanish, but didn't really learn to cuss until working on railroad track crew with Mexican guys. Then
learned more living in SoCal and AZ.......

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[Aughnanure]

Speaking of Latin; one of our professors at Sydney University, the late R. Ian Jack, was a real Latinist and he told us that he'd attended a convention of Latinists in Paris and though they could all write fluent notes to each other they couldn't speak Latin because pronunciations were so different in each region, the only ones who could converse in the language were Catholic priests as Church pronunciation was fairly standard but foreign to the others; truly a dead language.

We studied Latin at school as back in those dim dark days, some proficiency was required to enter Uni. but by the time I got there (many years after school), it was no longer a requirement.