Things I Would
Change About Latin
Central Gubernator A li Winter , Wellington
Latin is the language that we all know and love, but I am going to be
honest. A few improvements could be made.
#1 Simplifying uses. The ablative case is definitely the biggest
offender here. When I was a young and naive Latin student, I
foolishly asked my Latin teacher, "Why do we need five pages in our
notes for the ablative case"? Well, I soon found out. Place where and
place from which should not be different uses. And while I'm at it,
let's combine accusative place to which and locative place where.
There should only be one use that deals with everything involving
location. All of the less common ablative uses should be combined
into an "other" category. And vocative should be kept exactly the
same. It is perfect as is.
#2 Declensions. Fourth declension and fifth declension should
cease to exist. Honestly, this is mostly because there are very few
fourth or fifth declension nouns, so these declensions have always
felt extraneous.
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