Latin vs Greek

[Heresson]

definitely greek, so that I could read byzantine historical sources. I know a bit latin anyway.

[Provost Harrison]

Latin - would probably be more useful I think...although neither would be exceptionally useful. I'd rather trade it for something like French or German...

[Barnabas]

In the world of internet message boards about christianity, I have found a surprisingly high number of (mainly) evangelicals who have studied greek and hebrew to be able to read the bible in the original languages.

Discussions between protestants about the meaning of a sentence in the bible often goes to discussing what the sentence means exactly in greek or hebrew, I bet they make a large % of the people who study those languages.

[Robert]

I am studying Greek, I would give a lot of money to learn it with one click on a button!
And indeed, most important for me would be to learn Greek b/c of the New Testament, but there are old phylosophes I would really like to read in Greek.

[Flubber]

To get a sense where my mind is , I thought this was going to be about sex acts. I spent a couple of seconds wondering what type of act "Latin" was before I opened the thread.


Now -- I would learn Greek if it was the modern useful Greek or if the form of Greek would be of any use in the modern day-- I would pick a useful language over an archic one any day.


If they are both archaic, I still think I would learn Greek

[Lord Avalon]

Latin.

If I learned Greek, then I coudn't say, "But for mine own part, it was all Greek to me." It would have lost its meaning.

Also I could read Julius Caesar's De bello gallico.

[Lorizael]

The truth is, I want to learn latin so that I can read the damn phrase on the side of the Twilight Imperium box.

[Proteus_MST]

I already learned enough Latin at school,
therefore I would choose greek

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Lorizael
The truth is, I want to learn latin so that I can read the damn phrase on the side of the Twilight Imperium box.

This one (which is on top)?

PAX MAGNIFICA BELLUM GLORIOSUM

Magnificent Peace, Glorious War

[Lorizael]

It's okay, I already figured that out. The only word that cannot be obviously and immediately linked with its English counterpart is Bellum, and I just happened to know that meant war anyways.

[gwillybj]

Greek - to read the classical works and the biblical

[Will9]

Greek. For the reason above, and since it add to the amount of people who I can speak to.

[SlowwHand]

Greek.

[Kuciwalker]

Chinese.

[Kuciwalker]

Failing that, Japanese.