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Can anyone give me the "To be or not to be" speech from Hamlet in Latin?
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Hmmm . . . contemplating death in a dead language. Why?
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There was an author I've heard of, I can't remember his name, who wrote stories about death and ghosts and such in Yiddish because, he said, these types of stories were best written in a language that was dead, or nearly dead. That's why. I would do it myself if I knew Latin.
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language that was dead, or nearly dead. That's why. I would do it myself if I knew Latin.OK....I still don't get why. If you don't know Latin, presumably you won't be able to read it, so what will you do with it once you have it? The rationale escapes me .
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Shhh
We're doing his homework for him.
Don't tell nobody.
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Thanks, Faldage! Nobody finds out nothin from me . (Of course, no one should read that as an unwitting comment on my lack of wit .)
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I'm not sure but could it be something like "Vini, vidi, vinci"?.
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We're doing his homework for him.
. . . ignoring the fact that school is out for the summer already.
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>ignoring the fact that school is out...
it's hard, ain't it hard, for most of us OPs to recall what it's like having significant time off, don't you know.
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