Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 02, 2016

Time flies.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

They should teach Latin, still the backbone of Spanish, Italian and French along with parts of many other European languages.

I studied Latin for two years in high school. I think it might have been better for me to learn Spanish.

The moving finger writes….and has some other functions.

I only got one year of Latin because I transferred and the 2nd school didn’t offer it, but it’s been invaluable in dealing both with English and with other European languages.

dan quayle wished he took latin, so he coulda been hipper about latin america.

Coito ergo sum.

I taught Latin to seminarians. Difficult job because they didn’t know anything about English. I made up "googlio, googliare, googliavi, googliatus, -a, -um (to look up on the internet). They thought it was for real. Solvitur googliando.

Quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.

Was never taught latin. Learned German. Now I live in SoCal and wish I knew Spanish.

I learned pig latin as a kid.

So hic, haec, hoc is not smoker’s throat?

Sapere aude

Sic transit gloria mundi..(Gloria threw up on the bus Monday…)

It’s true anything in Latin sounds more impressive.Sic transit gloria mundi.

Not tempus fugit—tempus fugitive: time runs away

You really don’t get it, do you BP? Just like a sci-fi writer can more palatably get the point across using an alien race, Mallett gives the insight to a kid. That same line coming from an adult would elicit a “Duh.”

In our family, it was tempus fugit et fugere: time flies so it is time to get out of here..bigpumaYes, it is an annual tradition – like Christmas or April fool.

Temp Pest Fidget.

Or as the wiseguys say, “fugit-about-it!”

Seems to me the color is the indicator of his distress, the end of Summer not the colors themselves at least by this one.

How about “illegitimas non carborundum est?”

I remember a poem in school:Latin is a language, as dead as it can be First it killed the Romans Now its killing me

A friend once remarked, “Julius Caesar is said to have mastered three things. I don’t care his mastery of government and war, but why did he have to master literature?” Besides, he knew perfectly well Gaul was not divided into three parts. He had troops from Spain and the Balderics, and fought Gauls in the Danube valley.

Who said Latin is a dead language?.Fred.

“I am, therefore I think”, which is of course putting DesCarte before the horse.