Ruth, it's much harder to learn Latin than English, because it's boooooring... You can't read anything for fun in Latin. There's no Latin Dark Tower, nor even the least Cujo.
Ruth, it's much harder to learn Latin than English, because it's boooooring... You can't read anything for fun in Latin. There's no Latin Dark Tower, nor even the least Cujo.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
umm, no thats not us
actually we're the most boring people you could imagine. lazy as hell too. watching tv is all we do.
i dont think we have any world record
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Yes, but what about Virgil, Plutarch, Cicero?Originally Posted by Jean
My Latin teacher, Mr. Anese, actually managed to enliven the subject. We had a great foreign language department at my high school. I think it was divided into five or six major disciplines. The three main romance languages, i.e. Spanish, French and Italian, plus Hebrew, Mandarin, and-if memory serves-German. They might have phased out the Hebrew courses by the time I graduated, although I'm not sure about that.
Virgil, Plutarch, and Cicero are precisely the ones who make studying Latin unbearable, even with a great teacher
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People are going off-topic, eh? :-)
I actually master:
1. Bosnian(and thereby Serbian & Croatian)
2. Norwegian(and thereby Swedish & Danish pretty good)
3. English.
4. A little bit of French.
*Me feels proud!*
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Latin can be boring, I suppose, but it's very useful in terms of acquiring skills that are applicable to other languages. Even if you never become fluent in a foreign language though it does help improve your English vocabulary significantly. You learn so much more about derivatives, word stems, and ancillary (ancilla-"slave-woman") aspects of basic grammar and syntax. It would be great if they taught Latin as an elective in most junior high schools, especially now that basic grammar seems to have fallen by the wayside in most public schools.
Ruthful: I disagree completely, but JasKo is right, we're off-topic. If there was a thread on learning languages here, I would be happy to go on with this conversation there.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Believe me my friend, you can never say goodbye to Roland.
Roland would have understood.
Goodbye Roland.
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
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Good point though, Letti
Either late eightteen or early nineteen, which was almost two years ago. I wouldn't have even started it except that there was a regular at my old job who was giving a bunch of his books to charity and let me dive through the back end of his truck to pick out the ones I wanted. I liked the look of Zoltan and Roland on the front of it, so I nabbed it, and the rest is history.
Hope that's true!
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that is verry true and I think the people on this site and the site itself shows that. Roland and the dark tower always stay in the heart of their readers. they're like a virus you don't want to get ride of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letti
Believe me my friend, you can never say goodbye to Roland.
Hope that's true!
I couldn't agree more.
Roland would have understood.
This is very well put
I thought this would be an appropiate thread to start with on this great site.
So,
I was 13 back in 1998. The cover with the tower on it had some appeal. But the story was so strange, I had no idea what was going on. I also remember my little brother (3 years old back then) wrote circles on the opening pages. I returned it A.S.A.P to the library and hoped no one would notice.
It felt kinda boring anyway so..
A couple of months later I took the same book(for some reason) and gave it another shot. Glad I did.
I call it KA. As King mentions frequently, that first one is so though. Especially for a kid as I was back then
And now it is my favorite book of the series.(the original one off course)
Met Roland for the first time in 93 when I was about 25 at the time and haven't looked back since.
2002, 15 years old
i was 17 in 1987. this was when Drawing of the Three came out. I wanted to read it, but realized there was another book in the series before it so I got The Gunslinger as well. i've been obsessed with Roland ever since.
If I got my math correct I was fifteen back in early 2004. I felt kinda lucky that by the time I met Roland, his tale was nearly finished being written, but not completely, so I could enjoy what was done, and anticipate what was still to come, but not have to wait years for the next part to be avaliable. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like having just finished one of the early novels in the series, only to realise the next one might not come out for quite awhile as some others on here have already talked about. Of course, I'm not the most patient person in the world.
Fall/winter 2005. I was 19 (which I always found to be funny). I picked up the first book out of boredom from insomnia/lack of money and I didn't stop reading for a day until I got to the last page. Very happy I decided to read them.
Great to see new posts here, guys. Thank you for sharing.
Bumbler, I'm not the most patient person in the world, either but I had no choice. I waited.
Roland would have understood.
Yeah, not much else you could do. Couldn't very well force King to write them, though I'm sure some tried. Be interesting to see some of those letters.
Well...there was that time Letti kidnapped King and kept him drugged and locked in a bedroom of this house out in the snowy-mountains, until he would agree to write the next Book in the series. And she broke his 2 legs with a sledge-hammer when he tried to get away.....Yeah, not much else you could do. Couldn't very well force King to write them, though I'm sure some tried. Be interesting to see some of those letters.
...Oh, no...that was'nt Letti. It was some character in some Book or other, by some Author or other.....
13 or 14...
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