Comments | verlaine: Not Safe For Classicists

verlaine

Not Safe For Classicists

Jan 06, 2010 08:40

Depressingly, they no longer teach Latin in high schools anywhere in British Columbia, and actually I think nowhere in Canada apart from Ontario and possibly Quebec. I quested around for a reason for this appalling state of affairs, and think I have located the culprit: SESAME STREET.

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lanfykins January 6 2010, 16:47:26 UTC

YM 'I, CLAVDIVS' HTH

verlaine January 6 2010, 16:56:49 UTC

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn :P

lanfykins January 6 2010, 16:59:03 UTC

...is it wrong that I was able to proofread that from memory?

dracunculus January 12 2010, 21:06:03 UTC

Hey Verlaine, have you seen this funny video on fighting dirty in Scrabble? (The most amusing bits are at the end.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aq6sJEuVU

verlaine January 12 2010, 21:52:07 UTC

Dammit, those are trade secrets. He'll be drummed out of the Scrabblers' Guild for sure...

The last time I played competitive Scrabble was in Seattle. Every word I played seemed to be legal per the UK wordlist, but challengeable-off per the US list, which is apparently about 1/3 the size. I can't be bothered to play in North America when awesome and clearly legitimate words like VIBEX (med., a blood-streak) go unrecognized.