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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] "but essentially it's useless when it comes to direct communication with other people. Actually, that can probably be debated, but this doesn't really seem like the place." Mildly entertaining anecdote which I partially remember: My old Latin professor went on a trip to Europe several years back, primarily to Rome but they stopped over in Greece. He was in Athens, Greece at one point, and had decided to roam about and explore on his own. While doing so, he bumps into a Frenchman and an Italian at a museum, both professors I assume. They'd just met, and were both trying to use their knowledge of ancient Greek to understand what the hell the tour guide is saying about the ancient Greek things around them, and in the process are speaking ancient Greek to each other since neither knew the other's language. My professor didn't know Italian or French, and at this point knew only a little ancient Greek, but not enough to keep up, so he tried Latin. They both knew it and so they all converted over to that for the conversation. It sounds like a joke ("So a Frenchman, an Italian, and an American walk into a Greek museum and start speaking Latin . . . "), but he swore up and down it was true. G2k [/QB][/QUOTE]
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