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Latin is pretty useless, though. Useless things better be more enjoyable than their useful competitors and there are living languages to learn.


A girl I met recently is encouraging me to learn Latin. She is fluent, even competes in Latin poetry competitions (this actually happened). I think... all I can think of is that scene in Life of Brian! Although I am sure there is some benefit to reading Virgil in the original Latin.


I should say that it makes quite a few languages easier to learn: the Romance languages and even the Germanic languages.


Yeah, but so does Italian.




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