Re: Dead languages?

From: Ken Plotkin (kplotkin_at_nospam-cox.net)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:37:21 -0400

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:58:29 -0400, "Gerry Thomas"
<gfthomas@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>I used to meet a retired Prof (U of Toronto) of Classics at the gym who for
>reasons best known to himself always spoke to me in Latin. I'd respond in
[snip]

Is your comprehension of Latin any better than your comprehension of
English? That could have been his reason.

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