Cooper Buss
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I got to use my information on the Roman military project for my military history class. For the battle of Canaan, I was tasked at making a presentation requiring the Latin troop structure. Doing a Latin project beforehand made my job very easy. This is because I could apply my knowledge of Roman foot soldiers weapons and maniple formation
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my second experience when Latin helped me was in Julius ceasar. This was because Mr. Adcox changed the sections where are names went into Latin. This meant that where you here supposed to put name, Nomine was there instead. I know what nomine means because on every Latin assignment, It is where I put my name. The word Nomine also means name in Latin.
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Latin also helped me in Julius Caesar for historical reasons. for a quiz, we where required to know the date Caesar died, witch I knew from Latin 2.I used my knowledge learned form Latin to help me answer that question on the English quiz, witch helped bump that quiz grade from a B to a B+. I also am aware that I got that question wrong on a recent Latin quiz, but I also got some things wrong that I knew also on that quiz. The date of Caesars is march 15 44 bce.
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I used Latin during my trip to a convention called PAX(Penny Arcade Expo) south in San Antonio. the motto for Pax means Accipitis Donum. This word roughly means accept the house, and it took me a while to figure out what it meant. This is because I knew what Accipitus Donum meant, but because so, was even more confused about why the penny arcade exchanges motto was that. Because of my Latin knowledge, I was able to have a conversation with my family at a arcade convention.
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Latin has helped me with other translations aswell. During a lazy Saturday night, my family decided to watch the movie John Wick 3: Parabellum. 5 seconds in to the movie, I was asked by my family what parabellum means. I knew what para and bellum both meant because of my Greek and Latin derivative tests in TJCL; near or beside war. In the movie context, this title does not make sense because John Wick kills many entire fleets of people, making the movie more like John Wick 3: Belllum. Because of my knowledge of Latin and Greek derivatives, I was able to translate a movie title.
Latin helps me, while not every single day, quite often in my life.Learning Latin has gave me a sense of how many languages form, and my knowledge of Latin has allowed me to pick up phrases of other languages as well. Latin also has helped me understand many of the words in my nerd community. Because I learned Latin, I can communicate easier with the world.
