[Ti] weird word pronunciation (seriously OT)

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 07:30  pm, Paul Russell wrote:

>>
>> lemme "axe" you a question: when's the last time you declined a noun 
>> in english (you can't deal with latin (7 cases ?) or ancient greek (9 
>> cases ?) without it. <shudder> bad memories -- dative, accusative, 
>> generative, etc. case anyone?)
>>
>
> Actually Latin has 6 cases, each of which has singular and plural 
> forms: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative and 
> ablative, e.g.
>
> bellum bella
> bellum bella
> bellum bella
> belli  bellorum
> bello  bellis
> bello  bellis


there you go . quod erat demonstrandum.

Seems my memory of the latin language has failed me!

All I remember is that Latin is the subject I hated most at school and 
dropped it as early as possible. It seemed to have the most grammar 
rules and the least time spent speaking it in lessons.

I was actually rather good it at ironically (was best in my class) but 
this subject wasn't for me.


This summer I am off to Italia to learn some Italian, so I may be 
eating my words yet.

yours,

Tarik