Latin - Why, Exactly?

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Latin – Why, Exactly? © 2006 Mr. Craft’s Class at CrossRoads Middle School

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Why would you study a dead language?

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Latin – Why, Exactly?

© 2006 Mr. Craft’s Class at CrossRoads Middle School

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Latin – Why, Exactly?

•Latin is all around you!

•You hear it all the time!

•Examples?

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Latin – WhERE, Exactly?

•Latin is all around you!

•Rome, italy

•Catholic church

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Latin – mottoes

•Us motto– E pluribus unum

•Out of the many, one

•South carolina Motto– Dum, spiro, spero

•While I breathe, I hope

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Latin – mottoes

•Crossroads motto– Parans mentes in posterum

•Preparing minds for tomorrow

•US marine corps– Semper fidelos

•Always faithful

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Latin – mottoes

•The addams family– sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos

nunc •We gladly feast on those who would

subdue us

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Latin – mottoes

•My motto• Te audire no possum. Musa

sapientum fixa est in aure.• I can’t hear you, I have a banana in my

ear

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Latin – phrases

Et cetera

“And the rest”

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Latin – phrases

Fac simile

“make a similar”

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Latin – phrases

Carpe diem

“seize the day”

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Latin – phrases

Veni, vedi, vici

I came, I saw,

I conquered”

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Latin – phrases

VERITAS

“truth”

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Latin – phrases

Fac ut vivas

“get a life”