TRAVELSIG

Funny, when I think about what has happened to the Miles&More program in the last few years it seems as if the responsible office must have had Carmina Burana on high volume to encourage them in their work.

ottone

As long as it's not Carmina Burina that's fine with me !

whiskey_sk

Do you mean a specific part or the whole thing? I can't imagine it being O Fortuna!

TRAVELSIG

The whole thing- perfect soundtrack to enhance with.

weero

By assuming right, you gave it away and killed your post #273 @:-) !. My 25% is a lot closer on target than your 99.9% I bet !

Plus you don't translate Latin proverbs - they make no sense in Latin either - you just google or Yahoo them as a whole.


While I don't know your colleagues .. the Latin quote distortions on this board are undoubtedly funny.

Public perception of Latin - especially in Germany - is simply flat out wrong. Hence the insight that Latin went extinct for good reason came very late to me, as I was brought up in the false religion that Latin was this logical structured utopian original of all "good languages". It isn't. Latin is inaccurate, extremely poor in algorithmic descriptions, inflexible to the extreme, synthetic instead of analytic and hence not quantitative ... in brief it is of no use in a modern world outside of law school.
So Latin is predominantly two things: 1) pretty and 2) funny.

oliver2002

+1. As someone who only spoke German till age 6 (father immigrant who was made fun of in the 70s for stammering and not speaking German well so he made double sure I spoke it well) and was then thrown into learning Bengali and English in India, I somehow have acquired a skill to understand what people are talking about. Case in point: wife is finnish, MIL only speaks Swedish and Finnish, and I can manage

Them Germans are nuts: in the upper-bavarian town I spent 6 years of my life in the early 2000s they have a Gymnasium where they only teach German, Latin and French as Languages!!! 3x

mamb0

99.9%
+1
=100.9%
Perhaps your Latin is as good as your math?

NewbieRunner

Don't panic. The photo courtesy of 0hnoes taken during the LHR T2 trial today. Here are some LH operations managers observing the proceedings.



More photos may be found in "trip reports" by yellow_peril and 0hnoes.

LHR T2 is due to open on 4 June 2014 with LH family of airlines moving there later in the year.

Maluku_Flyer

Well, I'm not sure about that. The English language is full of Latin words and expressions that have nothing to do with jurisprudence (or the medical professions).

weero

Well that s part of my creepy point - Latin nouns have survived into modern times for their sheer onomatopoetic beauty. I'd always use the Latin term over the Celtic one if I knew one. But Latin itself has no respect for its nouns ... it's only obsessing about its unclear and blurry verbs. I never understood why they got stuck there. Having this set of precise and accurate prepositions and terms and then not using it .
And which other language has such a shortage of meaningful adjectives?

weero

First of all I fly coach all the time and 2nd I am stuck in this forsaken place. So I'd hardly call my choices and decisions smart in any meaningful way. Nerdy perhaps but not smart.

And the 2nd has to do with the bizarre niches academics get pressed into over time. We obsess over smaller and smaller fields in order to ease the murderous competition not because it is meaningful.
But was too dumb to see that when I was young.

Sic transit gloria mundi i.e....

IAN-UK

The English language is full of germanic words. Does nothing to make German either 1) pretty or 2) funny.

oliver2002

Millions of Brit comedians will tend to disagree.

N1003U

As well as the occasional American author:
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

IAN-UK

OK but I reckon they'd all join me in challenging you on the prettiness of German!