Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban From: urban@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Learning Latin and Greek (Re: learning Esperanto first) Message-ID: <379@spp2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 17:05:42 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.379 Posted: Fri Jan 18 17:05:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 04:48:46 EST References: <1143@druny.UUCP> <262@topaz.ARPA> <634@ut-sally.UUCP> <37@spar.UUCP> Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike urban) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 7 Summary: At UCLA, there are (were?) two classes from the Classics department, Greek 40 and Latin 40, entitled "The Greek(latin) Element in the English Language." These are basically etymology classes and fairly easy. Football jocks take them as vocabulary-building classes, for example, but someone with a deeper interest in language can derive a lot more from these classes than that.