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Classics is useless, eh? Hmph!

Latin is going to make a comeback, let me tell you. Any day now.

[hr]Sola lingua bona est lingua morta.

[s] Unregisted User dont claim to be my friend when you are not wrote on 09:12, 13th May 2003: Guess what, not everyone in America is rich and not everyone in America fits into what most of you thick-skulled individuals think. Many of you have never even set foot in this country, so how dare you mak...

I cannot think how I could stop this thread, So I might as well just jump on board instead! First Greebo praised by a secret fan, Then Rae gets jealous, calling him her man, Uncle Ten then jumps into the fray On every thread he's got something to say! Let's have the name of Greebo's would-be love, A...

Highway, I think you're under the impression that all Americans have a lot of money...or even that the average American has a better standard of living than the average Brit. I can understand why you might think this, because most of the Americans who can afford to come overseas for school *tend* to...

I have a friend who was falsely accused of cheating on a test (the prof accused him of changing his answers once he got the test back and submitting it for remarking) but I know of other people who have blatantly copied entire paragraphs out of books into their essays and never been caught. Personal...

Their arm muscles are well developed from lobbing water balloons at innocent passers-by.

I'm in Melville, and agree with basically everything already posted about it. Just wanted to add something about heating, though: I'm in the basement, and there were days during the winter when I couldn't bear to sit and do work in my room, because it was so cold. I borrowed my friend's thermometer ...

From what I know of the American system, the theory that needs-based funding gives everyone an equal opportunity is simply that - a theory. I have spoken to a number of Americans about this, and they say that the way it breaks down is that if you're dirt poor, you can usually get the funding you nee...

Seems as though the move towards charging students ridiculously high rates for post secondary education is an international trend of sorts - I'm currently in St Andrews on exchange from a university (in Canada) which is currently trying to convince its government to "deregulate" undergraduate tuitio...

This problem goes a lot higher than people in Vancouver not being able to buy printers from Georgia...the American ambassador to Canada made a speech last week telling us that the US was "very disappointed we weren't supporting them" and one of the Senators made a very thinly veiled threat that "Can...

Sounds good...yay, barbeque!!

Oh, and Rae - perhaps I'll try and bring nanaimo bars!

I'm an exchange student doing my third year abroad, not a first year...but getting used to someplace new is hard no matter what year you're in. And...in many ways, it was more difficult for me to get to know people in classes, since the rest of them mostly knew each other already. For the first few ...

Anything in ancient Greek tends to throw my spellchecker for a loop...there's a special font, and it doesn't make much sense in English.

For example:

h( a)lhqe/s au)to/n timhte/a e)stin

That means, "the truth ought to be respected." But MS Word doesn't seem to think so...

Here's an email I got from a friend on this subject...sorry it's so long. Incidentally, don't yell at me if a)you've all seen this before or b)some of the references are inaccurate...I sure as hell haven't looked them up to check. (Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality who dispenses advice to...

Count me in for whatever devious Melville plans you're hatching.

Incidentally, Kenneth is a grad student in my department...apparently has problems getting respect because they all think he looks like a Vulcan.

I'm coming too....whee!!

I'm not interested in attacking your opinions, Rennie, because as far as I'm concerned, you're entitled to them. I do have something to point out to you, however: I think you're mistaking a manifestation of the problem for the problem itself. I don't think it's a good thing that young boys (and girl...