Should have done this a week ago...

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cause I'm still busy, but not stressed anymore. Yay! Handed in the Paper From Hell, so no pollen analysis for me anymore! And did it ever feel good to return those books to the library, hopefully never to be seen again... Got a few other things sorted out, as well, and my To Do List is now, for the first time in as much as 15 months or so, of

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[herdivineshadow]

I know about Latin!!! It has cool words like Polyspaston and Coquus and ...I should probably dig out my Latin dictionary.

This seems to be a great book for learning Latin:

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http://www.lingua-latina.dk/

I'm thinking about buying it. It's a total immersion course, i.e. not a single word in the book is in another language than Latin. It looks like it would allow people to learn Latin pretty much intuitively.

Re: This seems to be a great book for learning Latin:

[herdivineshadow]

That book looks pretty cool. From the pages on the site, it starts off fairly easy and would let you work towards more complex stuff.

Re: This seems to be a great book for learning Latin:

[herdivineshadow]

http://www.cambridgescp.com/latin/clc/clc_home.html

This is the series of books that I used when I learnt latin at school. Although the books I used were about 20 years old or so.

Polyspaston looks Greek to me, btw.

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Both because of the 'poly', which would be 'multi' in Latin, and because of the suffix 'on', which probably would be 'um' in Latin.

Re: Polyspaston looks Greek to me, btw.

[herdivineshadow]

According to my vague memory of latin lessons about 5 or 6 years ago, it means "Crane" like the kind used for construction, rather than the bird.

Probably a loan word, then.

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Maybe they borrowed the word, along with the idea, from the Greeks.