Reply To: The book club

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Tharg
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    NO, not just you, Georgie. English to Latin not easy. Great pity we only had less than a year of enjoyable Latin (Verres et al). Would love to have done more. When using European languages I find even my less-than-basic knowledge quite helpful. Mrs T and I used to drive slowly down to Spain for hols. Going through France, Italy (a bit), Spain, even Switzerland. Conversing with locals and other foreign visitors, we ended up using a bastardised mixture of Spanish (me), Austrian (her), French, Italian – all strung together with curious bits of Latin. By the end of it, we would find it affecting our English, so that at the end of the sentence the verb we would put!