<p>Quite the opposite, actually.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>Ergo ipso facto, quaecumque sunt vera, reducto ad absurdum. Post hoc? Ad hominem et tu Brute?</p>
<p>Pshht, proved you wrong.</p>
<p>All I know is Carpe Diem and that phrase anorexics like.</p>
<p>QED HAHAHAHAHAH</p>
<p>that’s right.</p>
<p>Quid pro quo.</p>
<p>What brought this on, I wonder? Incorrect or overabundant use?</p>
<p>Any use is overabundant, as far as I’m concerned. Latin died a long time ago. Leave it to medical, linguistic, and Gladiator discussions.</p>
<p>Seize the Carp?</p>
<p>Honestly, the only one I ever use is QED, and that’s because it’s just so satisfying. If you don’t understand what I mean, I’m truly sorry, you’re missing out on one of life’s great experiences.</p>
<p>^ LOL. I’m with you.</p>
<p>The only one I use regularly is “ceteris paribus”. It’s shorter than “all other things being equal”, and almost everybody knows what it means.</p>
<p>What gets my goat is when people use English incorrectly. It’s still alive and everything…</p>
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<p>Your talking crap! Irregardless of what you elitists think, its sure fine to say things in verbatim!</p>
<p>what are you talking about, OP? Latin is a great language! … and I’ll use it whever I damn well please :D</p>
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<p>Sure, but only if you know how to correctly type in verbatim. Which is harder than standard English, because it involves the correct usage of single quotation marks, emphasis, and verbatim spelling.</p>
<p>Um, what if your field is…Ancient Greek and Latin languages?</p>
<p>Then you’ve just wasted thousands of dollars on a useless degree. XD</p>
<p>In all seriousness, it’s just annoying when people drop obscure phrases or vocabulary words in general conversation.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t be obscure if you were properly educated. </p>
<p>Kidding. </p>
<p>Anyways, I was smart. I didn’t spend a dime on my education.</p>
<p>No, but it’s stupid for an engineer to use engineering vocab to a movie director. The same is true for anything else. Use specialized vocab with people who understand you; don’t use ridiculously obscure words when you’re talking about the weather or answering a question.</p>
<p>IMHO, use of French pronunciation in English is far more annoying than use of Latin terms.</p>
<p>Envelope, Ensemble, Restaurant and Salon are major critters.
Raison d’etre, respondez sil vous plais and a few others are also irksome.</p>
<p>Germanics rock. QED.</p>
<p>pandem, i disagree with your bit about the latin phrases. sometimes they allow you to reduce a long phrase into a couple of words. they don’t have to be used to obscure meaning.</p>
<p>but yeah, you need to know your audience. droppin the latin phrases like its hot on internet forums isn’t a good idea.</p>
<p>what annoys me is when people use $20 SAT words that are just synonyms of common words.</p>
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<p>concordantly . . . vis a vis !</p>
<p>that one is stupid because you could just use therefore and not sound pompous @ hell</p>
<p>I think when most people use gems like that online, they’re trying to be ironic…</p>
<p>I must admit that I use actual Latin more frequently then I should in common conversation. Perhaps it comes from too much law/debate/philosophy. With that said, I’d bet that the smart ones among us end up dropping Latinate words more often than in necessary. Look up “Anglish” on Wikipedia, and read the brief description of Atomic Theory. It makes me glad about the composition of our language (1/3 Germanic, 1/3 French, 1/3 Latin/Greek/Spanish/Hindi/Other).</p>