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Plus teach an appreciation of dead languages. There's more benefits, too.
Probably.
Maybe...
well, I'm just guessing.
Gregorian Chant
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It's good, but I don't understand anything they say. [Amos Kito, Mar 30 2008]
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I have actually done something quite similar to this with Mediaeval Baebes songs in Latin with the children i helped with Latin. |
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Hello [eleventeenthly] and welcome to this here halfbakery. Glad to hear you are helping children with Latin because no one helped me and as a result I hated it and gave it up. |
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impressed 11teenthly and welcome. |
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waves to [eleventeenthly] I predicted your name to your Dad! Have fun here! |
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I'm against anything that involves monks and children. |
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//Plus teach an appreciation of dead languages// |
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I thought you had to be a math or physics major or engineer to truly appreciate dead languages. To be honest, I never much cared for the Gregorian Chant as a child. Anyhow, are they buddhist or catholic monks that are continuing to beat that dead language to a pulp with their depressing sounding chants? |
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Considering that in general, dead languages were previously spoken by ordinary people, that can't be true, except that it might help to be very pedantic. Sorry. It might help to have an eye for detail. |
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WIFRT I imagined the Gregorians intoning 'Humpty Dumpty'. |
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//I thought you had to be a math or physics major or engineer to truly appreciate dead languages.// |
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The connection is rather more complex than that. Living languages are nowadays usually taught in a way that emphasizes empathy and de-emphasizes formal structure and syntax. So, if you're the sort of nerd that is likely to become a 'math or physics major' at university, the only way you can get high-school language teaching appropriate to your brain-type is to learn a dead one. |
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[pertinax] - //Gregorians intoning 'Humpty Dumpty'//... exactly the right idea. We first tried it on "Pop Goes the Weasel", but then found it was markedly better with "London Bridge is Falling Down". Sorry, I don't know enough Latin to translate them off the top of my head, but we all figured it would be the next illogical step. (Or maybe Klingon.) |
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Klingon is a great language for cursing in, but is not renowned for its choral tradition. That could be because pretty much all Kilngon music sounds like pounding on a table with a bat'leth when drunk .... |
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Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem. |
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[pertinax], that's rather a depressing thought, and sort of confirms yet again my decision to give schools a wide berth. It's still possible to learn a language in terms of its formal structure. One of the results of this is that when i listen to Finns, i can understand their word endings but not their actual words. |
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Good idea - especially if this pervades children's television where, apparently the criteria for employment are that you're below 25 and so constantly and noisily extrovert and happy that any reasonable person would be convinced you're on drugs or suffering from some sort of life-threatening hyperactivity disorder. |
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My kids love it when they sing "Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem", then bonk themselves soundly on the head. They laugh and laugh. |
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Do flat foreheads run in your family ? |
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