OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
>>
>> If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life of Brian' then
>> you may use a word other than misfortune. :)
>
> As I already pointed out, this is true. Btw. this movie scene does show
> how Latin does work. Salve vocative et ablative and all the other nice
> stuff!
If you like all that, try Sanskrit. It has eight cases, not just six,
three numbers, not just singular and plural, and more verb tenses than
you can shape a stick at. And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has
German beat for compound words!
And as for being a dead language (no native speakers, used as a second
language for communication), its important literature was written when it
was already dead. Take that, Latin!
-- hendrik
P.S. Not to mention the alphabet.
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