Does Latin have any usefulness nowadays?

Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:57 pm GMT
Apart from in the Catholic Church?
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:57 pm GMT
no
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:59 pm GMT
It is useful to understand what the romans said about many things and that is very useful because the Romans had a nice culture ,which is the basis of ours. Well, at least it is the basis of the Latin countries. the basis of the Germanic countries is the barbarian culture.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:34 pm GMT
It's pretty much a prerequisite if you want study Law.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:54 pm GMT
<<... because the Romans had a nice culture ...>>

They killed babies for some reason ...

they conquered their nighbors ...
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:06 pm GMT
<<... because the Romans had a nice culture ...>>

They killed babies for some reason ...

they conquered their nighbors ...

they lived 2 000 years ago! But they were civilized enough compared to the rest of cultures which gave nothing to the Humanity. Oh wait, also they didn't allow homosexual marriages... So they were not civilized...
You can't apply XXI century concepts to people who lived two millenia ago. Do you undestand it?
About conquering their neighbors, even nowadays all cultures do it!. At least during the Roman Empire there was 300 hundres of relative peace withoug significant peace and inner regions were pacified because before the Roman Empire local tribes did the war to each other. Did USA achieve that in Irak? Oh wait, it is just the opposite.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:07 pm GMT
*without significant wars*
Breiniak   Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:41 pm GMT
No it isn't, except for philological purposes for historians and such. And the Catholic Church itself is useless of course.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:52 pm GMT
The Catholic Church preserves many beautiful Cathedral. Despite I don't like to pray and such I like them , so the CC is useful in that sense.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:12 pm GMT
<<You can't apply XXI century concepts to people who lived two millenia ago. Do you undestand it?>>

Where do I apply XXI century concepts? Not killing a baby is a ''concept'' that existed for hundredth (or thousands?) years, maybe in different cultures.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:33 pm GMT
All cultures abandoned babyes when they had surplus of children. They had not pills and condoms at those times and resources to feed the population were limited, so what did they had to do , to leave them to die from starvation?.
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:47 pm GMT
It is also used in science: there are a lot of contemporary latin neologism.
Breiniak   Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:58 pm GMT
Latin is still alive btw, in the form of many Romance languages spoken today. No language is static, aye?
Guest   Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:05 pm GMT
''Latin is still alive btw, in the form of many Romance languages spoken today."

Most romance languages are too different to still be considered a form of Latin.

Latin is indeed dead.
Breiniak   Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:44 pm GMT
It didn't die out. It evolved. Just like pokeman do. ^^