The foreign phrase--useful and necessary?

[jpgray]

Poll question: The foreign phrase--useful and necessary?

[petronius]

1. Is Latin really foreign? Since nobody actually speaks Latin

as a native tongue, isn't it local wherever it is? Capisce?

[jpgray]

2. Non capisco.

:P

[dimbear]

3. there have been a few, (very few) native speakers of Latin in modernity

children of priests, and the like......

[dimbear]

4. As a vain person, I find them invaluable.

All you are on a message board is words. They might as well be cosmopolitan words. Soyez citoyen du monde.

[gratuitous]

5. Mais oui

Next.

[HopeHoops]

6. Schto shze yob, preeyom?

Russian for "What the fuck, over?"

[jmowreader]

7. Da, da...

And the most useful foreign phrases of all are "mat"--the most vulgar of all Russian obscenities.

Dude, they're currently producing the Great Dictionary of Mat. Twelve volumes, and the first one is dedicated to the word 'dick.'