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04-11-2003, 07:22 AM
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FIRST we had Winnie the Pooh (Winnie Ille Pu). Then there was Paddington Bear (Ursus Nomine Paddington).
Now Latin lovers everywhere are hoping that a translation of the first Harry Potter novel - Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis - will cast a fresh spell on the nation’s youth and prompt new interest in the language.
In July, Bloomsbury will publish the new version of JK Rowling’s first book, which will almost certainly become the biggest work of fiction to be translated into a dead language for a century.
More than 200 million copies of the Harry Potter books have been sold in 200 countries, and the series has been widely credited with encouraging millions of youngsters to rediscover the written word.
Many Latin enthusiasts now hope that the translation can also revive an interest in a language that has been derided as elitist, irrelevant and boring, and which is struggling to assert itself in the crowded school curriculum.
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04-11-2003, 07:25 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Riding my Dragon
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Thats really something, I would like tolearn Latin! Do you know Latin HP?
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04-11-2003, 07:35 AM
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| | Doxy
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The dark side of the
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No really, only a few words but I'd like to learn more.
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04-11-2003, 07:59 AM
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| | Horklump
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dining at Malfoy Manor
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I learn Latin in school, I'm in my second Latin year, and I have to say that it was the worst decision of my life 'cause it is just so boring and difficult.
But if Harry Potter is published in Latin, I think I would buy it...
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04-11-2003, 04:59 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Andover!
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Nothing can bring Latin 2 life! I did it 4 £ years& i am ditchin' it 4 my GCSE's  | |
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04-11-2003, 05:05 PM
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| | Dugbog
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Inside my own fantasy.
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I already know Spanish, and Latin it's close to it. Maybe it could bring latin back to life it's cool, all the spells are in latin anyway. I wish I had taken Latin in school, but unfortunately I didn't. | |
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04-11-2003, 05:54 PM
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| | Snidget
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Quote: Originally posted by La Tristesse@Apr 11 2003, 10:07 AM
I learn Latin in school, I'm in my second Latin year, and I have to say that it was the worst decision of my life 'cause it is just so boring and difficult.
But if Harry Potter is published in Latin, I think I would buy it... I'm in my second year of Latin too! But I don't think it's boring, I like it. It's difficult but I enjoy learning it.
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04-11-2003, 10:02 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Sep 2002
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OMG I LOOOOVE LATIN!! ahaha it sounds soo awesome!!!  | |
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04-11-2003, 10:20 PM
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Latin??! My sis knows Latin but it's so boaring { to me} my sis loves it !!!  Well hopefully she gets better!! | |
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04-11-2003, 10:28 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A world where Tom, Dan, and Orlando R my roomates, and I can fly.
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She does?! :o Where did she learn it? Can she teach me?!  ?! I've wanted to learn latin 4 the longest time!It's such a cool language!
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04-11-2003, 10:40 PM
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Sorry shes gone to Belgiume!!!!! Besides you need to talk to her and live in Canada!
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04-11-2003, 10:47 PM
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| | Imp
Join Date: Mar 2003
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I would LOVE to learn Latin. I think that its because its sorta an extinct language. It is so cool.
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04-11-2003, 11:04 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A world where Tom, Dan, and Orlando R my roomates, and I can fly.
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Yeah I know, unfortunately, it's not offered at school!  At least until college anyway. I guess I'll have to wait. Or I could always(in Harmione's words, or more accurately, Ron's words about Hermione) "When in doubt go to the library!"  | |
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04-12-2003, 12:57 AM
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| | Firecrab
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: the green highways a
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hmm well latin is useful for careers such as medicine where many names of diseases and anatomy are in latin, so that it can be used universally by all countries.
i learned latin for 4 or 5 years and came out with a GCSE. im not very good at languages but i would have much perfered studying latin if the story was harry potter. however one other good thing about my latin studies was that i learnt several of the myths from that time, JK uses alot of roman and other mythology in her books.
Dominus et Domina Dursley, qui vivebant in aedibus Gestationis Ligustorum numero quattor hee hee! sounds lovely!
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04-13-2003, 03:54 AM
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i take latin. and im obsessive over it. once you take latin, theres no turning back. atleast for me. im excited about hp coming out in latin!
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04-13-2003, 12:42 PM
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| | Streeler
Join Date: Dec 2002
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coooooool... i didnt even know latin was still taught! hmmm... might buy that!
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04-13-2003, 12:45 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Andover!
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Trust me hermione, you dont want to read it1 it is soo hard and soo boring, why read in latin slowly when you can read in english faster! :mrgreen:
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04-13-2003, 12:55 PM
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I really like LAtin. Its all fancy!
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04-13-2003, 01:05 PM
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| | Puffskein
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Well in England, untill you are 14 you have to do it, beause loads of stuff in england in written in Latin, E.G our money. Loads of English word derive from latin. *Yawn* You sort of learn to hate it  | |
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| | Gnome
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To speak Latin just ad silly letters on to the end - us.
"Hello-us my-us name-us is-us Christina-us!"
To the very dim that might sound like Latin when you read it aloud! 
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