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[Athena]

I did some Latin and Greek on secondary school, but only because I liked to do that.

You have to admit though, one word beats four . But yeah, I see bits of your point.

And hurrah for that piece you wrote. 65 quit is a lot though, greedy bastards.

[chemical ali]

Why did you change your name, and personally I find the hydrolysis of secondary proteins as something of great intrest, glycogenesis is a touch borring.

[Athena]

*imagines*
Doctor comes in.
"Well sir, you have <some Latin name for something>"
"Oh, is that serious? Am I going to diiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeee???"
"No, it's just a cold. You will feel better in some days, drink this medicine and you will be fine"
Patient feels relieved and fine in a few days.

It makes them look like they know a lot and such . It's like jargon.


I did bits of Latin and some Greek because I liked the two, they have words that our languages nowadays come from, Dutch, English, French (Greek more to the Dutch side and Latin the English and French). Sometimes French and English were easier to learn because I knew the Latin word.

[Ash]

Why did you change your name, and personally I find the hydrolysis of secondary proteins as something of great intrest, glycogenesis is a touch borring.

How can you find it interesting?

And the reasons for the name change are very personal.

[MSpencer]

Legalese is not alphabet soup n00b! Alphabet soup is stuff like OMG I RAAM YOUR JSTARS WITH SM2 TRACKED BY SPY-1E N00B!

And whatever all of you say, biology is required to be a human being.
The hydrolysis of secondary proteins is a daftly boring subject involving, you guessed it, water. The interesting thing is like... coding in DNA. Even more interesting yet, a more academic field of discussion, is the engineering of a virus specifically targeted towards a host's DNA, which could possibly infect cells en masse and scramble the target system's genetic code, perhaps by destabilizing chromosomes after taking over the ribosomes with a non-detaching mRNA strand to produce enzymes and coenzymes which are fit to individual nucleotides, tearing them apart with hydrolysis. The result would be a human being who would cease to be a human being... immediately.

[Athena]

THIS is alphabet soup .



Oh and the DNA variant

[Natus]

Not too shabby CJ, keep it up. Have a large triple vodka an gin. So whats next on the agenda, job wise.

[Jeeves]

It's like jargon.

Am I the only one who likes jargon? When lying under the knife I'd rather not know that the whashamaggodle he just asked for is actually a type of chainsaw, that I need my doolakky to live, or that his dentist is German.

[Ash]

And whatever all of you say, biology is required to be a human being.
The hydrolysis of secondary proteins is a daftly boring subject involving, you guessed it, water. The interesting thing is like... coding in DNA. Even more interesting yet, a more academic field of discussion, is the engineering of a virus specifically targeted towards a host's DNA, which could possibly infect cells en masse and scramble the target system's genetic code, perhaps by destabilizing chromosomes after taking over the ribosomes with a non-detaching mRNA strand to produce enzymes and coenzymes which are fit to individual nucleotides, tearing them apart with hydrolysis. The result would be a human being who would cease to be a human being... immediately.

I know. But the fact is, I don't want to know how it works, nor do I care how it works. All that matters to me is that it DOES work.

Not too shabby CJ, keep it up. Have a large triple vodka an gin. So whats next on the agenda, job wise.

Psychology.

It's like jargon.

Am I the only one who likes jargon? When lying under the knife I'd rather not know that the whashamaggodle he just asked for is actually a type of chainsaw, that I need my doolakky to live, or that his dentist is German.

My orthodontist was German...

[chemical ali]

How do you make Sauerkraut?

Mention the war! Gota to love the Spitfire Beer adverts, downed all over the South East just like the Luftwaffer.

[milbot]

Making Sauerkraut

[chemical ali]

http://www.spitfirea...itfire_ale2.htm

Full of other patriotic stuff making fun of the Germans.

[MSpencer]

East or West German? I always get some amusement out of calling someone proud to be from Stuttgart an East German. Without fail he always ends up yelling at me.
I recommend you look into the genetic differences between the two halves post 1962. I don't know how the Soviets did it, but they created the ultimate supersoldier: The East German Woman.

[Ash]

ROFL.

If there was any seriousness in that post, find us a source

[Rawlo]

on the topic of latin iirc it was specifically designed to be confusing so that peasants couldn't learn it, made by the catholic church.

as to the super soldier, I dare you to try and face an ausie women, be like throwing a jack russel at a pissed off 2m high buck wallaroo (and for those who don't know, a 1m high buck wallaroo is quite capable of killing a german sheperd)

Edited by Rawlo, 22 August 2006 - 10:49 AM.

[Athena]

Romans spoke Latin, before the idea of the Church was there.

Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? "People called Romanes they go the house"?
Brian: It, it says "Romans go home".
<etc>

[Ash]

ROFL, Latin as a language existed before Jesus was itching his daddy's pants. However, you are right in that the Catholic church used it originally to suppress the peasantry by virtue of that they could not understand it, and that during the Renaissance it was used for much that same reason by so-called "Learned men." And thus, the legacy remains...

[MSpencer]

Latin was around before the Romans. They stole that, and killed the creators, too.

[CodeCat]

Well, no. Latin was spoken by the people of the Latium (now Lazio) area around Rome, long before the beginnings of the Roman empire. It was only because of the empire that it spread so widely, but Latin was simply the language people spoke in that area at the time. Just like people in Switzerland speak Swiss German, people in Scotland speak Scots and people from Altrincham speak bollocks.

[chemical ali]

Wheres Altrincham?