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Now come on, "Albertus Magnum" would be "Big Al."

"Albertus Maximus" would be "All that Al Could Be" in a way, or "Biggest Al."

I didn't suffer through Latin for years in vain! When I first came to Waterford/Kamhlaba School in M'Babane, Swaziland in 1968 I was two years behind the rest of the class in Latin and as my Latin teacher was the Headmaster. . . I HAD to catch up. . . and I did, in an intense "quarter" where I nearly dreamed in Latin!

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Now come on, "Albertus Magnum" would be "Big Al."

"Albertus Maximus" would be "All that Al Could Be" in a way, or "Biggest Al."

I'll take either one. Really! I'm not picky. ;)

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Now come on, "Albertus Magnum" would be "Big Al."

"Albertus Maximus" would be "All that Al Could Be" in a way, or "Biggest Al."

I didn't suffer through Latin for years in vain! When I first came to Waterford/Kamhlaba School in M'Babane, Swaziland in 1968 I was two years behind the rest of the class in Latin and as my Latin teacher was the Headmaster. . . I HAD to catch up. . . and I did, in an intense "quarter" where I nearly dreamed in Latin!

Latin est lingua mortuus parumper causa.

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LOL at all of you!

Lon, I will step back and allow you to be the king of Latin here! I struggled through four years of high school Latin. Each grading period, I would get straight F's, only to be given a D out of pity as the final grade for the semester. I guess it shows, huh?

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:)

Well, I HAD to do well with Latin, new kid on the block, only American in the whole school, needed to impress the Headmaster (and I WANTED TO, Sir Michael Stern was a great personality and man). How useful do you think that Latin knowledge has been to me since? You guessed it, practically worthless!

He had a great sense of humor. In England, before coming to Africa, he had been Andrew Lloyd Weber's Latin teacher as well. Apparently Weber sucked at Latin. Stern says he told Weber "I'm afraid if you don't shape up you may never amount to much of anything!"

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