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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Always has been...

I had Latin in school, and the teacher was a bit senile already. He started making the rounds to check our homework - which I had not done. So I just hastily scribbled some lines of gibberish into my notebook. He came to my place, looked at my notes, and scolded me for my bad writing. And signed it off as done...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Non scholae sed vitae discimus!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Illigitimus non carborundum!

    Lorem ipsum!

    E pluribus unum!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    For my vitae, Latin has been rather useless in the last 40+ years since I got rid of it.

    It was just the choice of the lesser evil back then: French with an asshole teacher or Latin with a demented one. At least the teacher I had at the end let me off with the equivalent of a D instead of an F.

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