Originally Posted By howard
Originally Posted By DaveW
Amo, Amas, Amat has stuck. That's about it.

Oh and the verb at the end appears.


amamus , amatis, amant

Did Latin O level at the ripe old age of 13 - my Grammar school was focussed on Oxbridge and at that time it required Latin even for science students. But because Latin is logical I found it far easier than French.

Remember a school skiing trip to Cortina D'Ampezzo in the Italian alps. I fancied my chances with a shop girl in the town but she couldnt manage English or French and I couldnt do Italian. So I tried propositioning her in Latin. After all it couldn't be much different to Italian could it? All I got was hysterical laughter and I still dont know if it was the language of Caesar with a broad yorkshire accent that got her going or that the best I could do was an invite to come along to my encampment. The last Latin book I had studied was Caesar's Gallic wars

Either way it didnt work.


Was it in Capt. Corelli's mandolin ? The bit where a british SOE officer was parachuted onto the top of a mountainous greek island. Because he was over 6ft tall, blonde and spoke classical greek, the locals thought he was an angel.

Giles. Mogless in Paris.