>Latin
>Ancient Greek
>Sanskrit
>Old English
>Old Church Slavonic
Anyone experienced with these? Are they fun to learn? I have no interest in living languages, what the fuck's the point if everyone speaks english anyway
Latin
Aaron Young
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David Gutierrez
Why do you want to learn dead languages?
Jonathan Robinson
Historical perspective
Smugness
Reading ancient scrolls
For fun
Samuel Brown
Latin and greek were mandatory at my high school.
They're not fun to learn (unless you like to learn languages in general), but the literature does make it worth it.
Fuck me if I remember anything greek tho, it's like it evaporated out of my head after high school.
Logan Adams
Latin is very simple to learn.
Ancient greek with his countless grammar exceptions is shit to learn.
Anthony White
>Church Slavonic
I have New Testment in it, rather easy to understand
Christopher Reed
I am Greek and Ancient Greek is good
Parker Rogers
Ethan Evans
Old Chinese sounds like literal down syndrome
Michael Rodriguez
I'm interested in Old English. I learn its phonetics. Next, I want to get acquainted with the runic form of writing. Some phonetical changes:
OldE - Mo:na > MiddleE - Mo:ne > NewE - Mu:n
OldE - Mann > NewE - Maen
OldE - Ho:pa > MiddleE - Ho:pe > NewE - Houp
OldE - Sk'i:eld > MiddleE/NewE - ʃi:ld
Luke Lee
*Həup
Andrew Nguyen
>Latin
It seems to be the simplest of all the ancient languages yet it's still powerful for expression. I got the most out of learning this out of the other languages.
>Ancient Greek
More complicated than Latin. I still found it to be a rewarding language.
>Sanskrit
Never got too deep into the language. Devanagari almost as complicated as Chinese. Its relation to Western languages is interesting.
>Old Church Slavonic
Never touched it because Semitic religions don't interest me and Slavs are shit.
Bentley Taylor
OldE - Fisk'(writing form is Fisc) > MiddleE/NewE - fiʃ
OldE- disc[disk'] > MiddleE/NewE - dish[diʃ]
OldE - sc[sk'] --> MiddleE/NewE - sh[ʃ]
Adrian Watson
But slavs are not semitic
Isaiah Jones
Kek
Why does everyone hate Slavs on Sup Forums
They dindu nuffin
Kayden Ross
gib link desu
Austin Adams
>They dindu nuffin
this
Landon Nguyen
Old Slavonic is basically codified Greek
Kayden Miller
>link
Well, its real book, published in 19 century. My granma gave it to me...
Elijah Phillips
Latin is very useful if you want to understand the underpinnings of many European languages.
Up until the 20th century, knowing Latin was part of being an educated man and contributes to understanding not only languages based off of it, but also plays, poetry, etc. were frequently quoted in Latin.
Kevin Bailey
>>Old English
pointless unless you want to read beowulf n sheit
Leo Williams
Sanskrit at least isnt dead
Brandon Collins
is it not attainable anywhere other than from your grandmother?