Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PCModem who wrote (34885)	8/13/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

LOL. Late or laid, uh. I think I really admire languages that give away all of the tense and possession and all the rest of the info in the form of the words themselves. I have not studied Latin, and I hear this about it; i.e. that it is specific; exact. I like that and see it's potential application in the world-theatre, instead of English even I can't make right or clear. There's a lot of "fumbling" in English. I mean, I don't know these other languages, but even I can tell this one sucks on critical levels. A good or great teacher of Latin, a coach, a person of interests, would be great to find. Fun, like. Gargantuan. Say a Roman orator. Something I DID notice while in India, was that the upper echelons of the "British-educated" native speakers constructed their English with an absolute clarity I never hear Americans use. I "guess," this is what was taught as Oration. (I don't know.) But it was like listening to glass, a clear stream, something physical, as opposed to.....vaporous. Just in the construction and choice of words. Know what I mean? Of course, these people were no dummies, but it is more than that ~ something formal, and very practiced. Something that would obviously require years of effort and discipline. Once I got an ear for it, I was kind of addicted. Almost obsessed. I loved hearing "it." It was poetry, in the absolute absence of it. It was strange to be listening to it, mixed with Sanskrit and Hindi and Urdu and Punjabi, and realizing these languages were so old, and English so "new," and yet constructed of all these and Latin et al; and having these speakers use this English, foreign to them, beset with pronunciations and rules ~ having them use it more beautifully. More carefully. More meaningfully. English came out better than mine. Is.