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[MossRoad]

I got talked into taking Latin in high school, instead of Spanish, which was the only other language offered. I have regretted that decision ever since. Maybe if you are Catholic, and see the priesthood as a calling.

Otherwise, it's useless IMHO.

Without going into the religious aspects of the Latin mass, it is a rare thing these days to see one performed these days.At my children's school we had a priest that could still do the Latin mass. He would do one very early on Sunday morning and the Latin fans would come from as far as Illinios and Ft. Wayne for it. It was the only Latin mass in the area. Even the University of Notre Dame didn't have one. Special permission was needed from the Bishop to say the Latin mass. However, there is a growing demand for it. Our priest was sent to a different parish last year, and the Latin folks asked the Bishop for another priest to say the Latin mass. They got one. And the University added a Latin mass, too.

I was always told Latin was a good language to learn if you were going into the medical field or biology/sciences. They teach it at my daughter's High School... she's taking Spanish.

 

[MossRoad]

Now that's a neat language.. i would have loved to take that in HS...

Soundguy

We had a teacher that taught German with a southern drawl...

Sprechen Sie Deutsches, y'all?

 

[riptides]

We had a teacher that taught German with a southern drawl...

Sprechen Sie Deutsches, y'all?

Yeah, I find that a lot of people I am around transverse and intermix both English and Spanish, Or German and English while speaking. After you get use to it, it is pretty amusing to hear, IF, your not paying attention.

A new skill being born?

-Mike Z.

 

[Bird]

I had made up my mind to be a Police Officer. The city I lived in was actively recruiting and the job offering listed priority to applicants conversant in a "Second Language"

Well, did you ever get to be a Police Officer anywhere?

I can't remember when it started, but a long time ago (over 20 years ago at least), the City of Dallas began paying an additional $50 a month to any employee who was conversant in a second language. I don't know whether that amount has changed or not, and as far as I know, it applied to employees in any department. Of course, any applicant had to pass a test in the other language and then the City kept a list of employees who could be called upon as interpreters any time they were needed.

 

[Soundguy]

("Spain Spanish" as opposed to Mexican Spanish. There is a difference)

Huge difference in castelian ( spelling) spanish.. and the other dialects.

We also took the castelian spanish in HS.. and i found out quick that puerto rican spanis, mexican spanish, and peruvian spanish is way different.. with peruvian being the most different... ( 'riccan spanish seemed the 'fastest' ) and mexican seemed th colsest of the ones I've had to converse with.. )

Soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Keep watch.. I believe the current Pope is trying to return to latin mass.. etc.

soundguy

Without going into the religious aspects of the Latin mass, it is a rare thing these days to see one performed these days.At my children's school we had a priest that could still do the Latin mass. He would do one very early on Sunday morning and the Latin fans would come from as far as Illinios and Ft. Wayne for it. It was the only Latin mass in the area. Even the University of Notre Dame didn't have one. Special permission was needed from the Bishop to say the Latin mass. However, there is a growing demand for it. Our priest was sent to a different parish last year, and the Latin folks asked the Bishop for another priest to say the Latin mass. They got one. And the University added a Latin mass, too.

I was always told Latin was a good language to learn if you were going into the medical field or biology/sciences. They teach it at my daughter's High School... she's taking Spanish.

 

[AlanB]

Yeah, I find that a lot of people I am around transverse and intermix both English and Spanish, Or German and English while speaking. After you get use to it, it is pretty amusing to hear, IF, your not paying attention.

A new skill being born?

-Mike Z.

My wife is German, and my sister married my wifes brother, and they live in Germany still.

Yeah, you better be bilingual around our house to follow more then half of a conversation.

My daughter is fluent in English and German and is taking Spanish and French.
Last years teacher taught Mexican Spanish, this years teacher teaches Spanish, Spanish (that does not sound right but you get the point) Kind of amazing out of the same school system. She says it is like a different language all together.

2 years ago, my daughter went to Gymnasium (college prep high school) in Germany. Took English classes, in German, from a Russian. Yeah, that went over like a screen door in a submarine.

 

[MossRoad]

Keep watch.. I believe the current Pope is trying to return to latin mass.. etc.

soundguy

What kind of tractor would the Pope drive?

 

[ultrarunner]

What kind of tractor would the Pope drive?

It looked to be a very old LANZ.

The picture is of the Pope as a young priest on a farm somewhere in Bavaria... I saw the the photo on Austrian television when they did a story on the first German born Pope in several 100 years.

The first tractor I operated was a Steyer 15 with a sickle bar mower... a single cylinder 15 hp diesel with aux crank in case you battery wasn't up to snuff.

In very cold winter there was a plug in the cylinder head you could unscrew, attach a lit bunt, screw it quickly back in to the head and crank...

I guess you could call it a TRUE GLOW PLUG?

 

[ultrarunner]

Well, did you ever get to be a Police Officer anywhere?

No, I tested at several local agencies in 88 and 89, along with several hundred others before I discovered Tractors... (I had to make this tractor related)

The Bay Area Departments were all under tremendous pressure due to consent decrees in SF and Oakland that mandated a minimum number of minority Officers to match the population. As Eddie mentioned, an Asian Female with foreign language skills could write her own ticket in either Police or Fire agencies in the Bay Area.

Local Departments were actively poaching minority officers from other Departments, even going out of state.

I met with the Police Chief of San Leandro after testing. He was very candid and said the Department was only testing to keep the process going and said his budget did not allow for the training of any new officers. He did give me the option of paying my way through the academy with the promise of a job after graduation. 4 of the last 6 Department Hires were laterals from other agencies, 5 of the 6 were minority and one was a white male that paid his way through the academy...

About the same time, I did some Engineering consulting work for a local Hospital. My degree is in Engineering and several months later I was hired full time.

Several of my High School buddies entered Law Enforcement right after High School/Community College. Several retired after 20 years, others have been promoted through transfer to other departments and one in now Chief in a nearby city.

I know retired law enforcement Officers with combined pensions exceeding 100k... lots of opportunity if you have the right skill at the right time and willing to face the associated dangers...

Both my Uncle and the local beat Officer for the Hospital where I work have been killed in the line of Duty...