Re: [tlug] Is linguistics OT at all?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Friday 13 February 2004 02:14 am, Raymond Regalado wrote:

> I myself am a hopin' to learn enough Latin to get to read the Vulgate
> in a couple of years' time. ;-)

While I'm a cradle Catholic, I've never had much interest in Latin and since I 
was born in the sixties, I'm young enough to have not had to study it in 
school.  All I know of Latin is a few common snippets that one hears in Mass 
from time to time, such the Kyrei, Miserere Nobis, and and the first Latin 
verse of Adeste Fidelis.  Bits and pieces of Gregorian chant (which I love!), 
that sort of thing.

Like a number of other people on TLUG, Asian languages hold my linguistic 
interest, and it was my study of Japanese that was largely responsible for my 
moving to Japan.  I was also always interested in Vietnamese, and that 
doubtless contributed to my marriage :-)  I speak/understand a bit of it, 
heavily concentrated around baby-centric words. I can tell you various things 
a baby did or needs, but can't have any sort of adult conversation :-)

Jonathan
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