[D-community-offtopic] Flashbacks - Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 13:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 12:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
> > > 
> > > If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life of Brian' then you
> > > may use a word other than misfortune. :)
> > 
> > As I already pointed out, this is true. Btw. this movie scene does show
> > how Latin does work. Salve vocative et ablative and all the other nice
> > stuff!
> 
> Haven't seen it for a long time, I guess I'll google for the German
> synced graffiti scene and watch it on YouTube later. It wasn't that much
> fun at school as it is to watch this scene, OTOH I draw many pictures
> during Latin lessons, because the lessons where not that interesting. We
> read Homer, the ancient Greek epic poet, not the one from Springfield
> next to Shelbyville, in Latin. At that time Homer Simpson wasn't born,
> Itchy and Scratch were not born, but we watched a lot of Tom and Jerry
> at that time :D.

I forgot to mention, I'm a more uneducated boor. Perhaps we never read
Homer, I e.g. thought that the Trojan Horse is from Homer, but it is a
Latin epic poem.

"The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin
epic poem from the time of Augustus. The event does not occur in Homer's
Iliad, which ends before the fall of the city, but is referred to in the
Odyssey. In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the "Wooden
Horse" (Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos, in the Homeric Ionic dialect)."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse