Ha ha @Kili - but you don't need to have had a Latin tutor to learn the names of plants. With regard to the Super League - it's a no from me. Anything that has such big bucks associated with it can't be good. Norwich have just gone up to the Premiership. Let us bask in that glory for a while. With a Super League how important will something like that be?
Back in the dark ages when I learned Latin it was required for Oxbridge entrance - Headmistress very keen on that. Me? Total washout, got bored with dogs, servants and wars
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Oh, and while I'm here - despite putting sticks all around it, the neighbour's cat has still managed to chew off all the ends of the (2nd - it destroyed the first completely) nepeta. Now more sticks and eggshells all around - looks hideous but if I can just get it to a decent size it might stand a chance. Nothing against cats per se - I actually like them. We used to have cats ourselves but after the last one died (the baby-robin killer) we decided not to have another.
If you went to grammar school before the rise of comprehensives there was always a Latin stream so not posh at all, just good brain exercise.
Possum went to secondary school in a small Belgian town from the late noughties. Latin and Greek were offered all the way up to Bacc level for those who were capable and interested. They also had streams offering mechanics, carpentry, retail service and display and everything academic and/or practical in between. Normal.
Normal , not in my part of the world , but that explains it, thank you. Unfortunately my school (if you could call it that back then) was akin to Borstal. If nothing else you learnt how to survive and get through to the end and out into the work place as fast as you could run... If only I had Latin in my armoury who knows how far up the ladder I might have got.
Fortunately we now have the universal translator know as the WWW so..
vita sic est
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Posh?! Good grief no. My mum worked as a dinner lady at a really rough Brighton school, and my dad was a long distance lorry driver. But my dad passed his 'scholarship' (11+) but his parents couldn't afford the uniform (for the grammar school) - so he swore that if we (me and my two siblings) passed, we would go... and we wore uniforms that we would 'grow into' as we couldn't afford new uniforms each year.
Yeah I'm only kidding steveTu. There's a few that seems to be posh on here, not that there's anything wrong with being posh we are all born to circumstances we don't control and everyone seems to be very nice people posh or not so ..
puram, et superiora loca
I'm taking my new Latin lessons seriously you know..
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
It may well do but there were 3 new opera houses built in UK in the last few years. More folk pay to see opera than women's football. I'm pretty sure of that.
Oh, and while I'm here - despite putting sticks all around it, the neighbour's cat has still managed to chew off all the ends of the (2nd - it destroyed the first completely) nepeta. Now more sticks and eggshells all around - looks hideous but if I can just get it to a decent size it might stand a chance. Nothing against cats per se - I actually like them. We used to have cats ourselves but after the last one died (the baby-robin killer) we decided not to have another.
You need one of these didyw. Cats hate water (unless there a full grown Tiger)
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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Normal , not in my part of the world , but that explains it, thank you. Unfortunately my school (if you could call it that back then) was akin to Borstal. If nothing else you learnt how to survive and get through to the end and out into the work place as fast as you could run... If only I had Latin in my armoury who knows how far up the ladder I might have got.
Fortunately we now have the universal translator know as the WWW so..
vita sic est
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
However, the Met has been streaming it during the pandemic and Royal Opera has been doing it too - https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
and https://www.roh.org.uk/using-roh-stream
Not free but maybe worth it to you.
Yeah I'm only kidding steveTu. There's a few that seems to be posh on here, not that there's anything wrong with being posh we are all born to circumstances we don't control and everyone seems to be very nice people posh or not so ..
puram, et superiora loca
I'm taking my new Latin lessons seriously you know..
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
You need one of these didyw. Cats hate water (unless there a full grown Tiger)
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'