I did Latin for 5 years, compulsory, but I'm over 50 and went to a good school.Has anyone under the age of 50 on either side of the Atlantic, save those that went to a good school, been taught a lick of Latin?
Only the well read, aspirational middle classes will know a few well known phrases, likely because they looked it up after seeing it in print, so they wouldn't seem ignorant. All others of this age range will know essentially none, I'd imagine.
Hated it. Could not construe a line. That 'Romans go home' bit in 'The Life Of Brian' is exactly what it was like. Exactly.
I passed the 'O' level with a 'C', I have no idea how.
A Latin lesson is the most boring thing possible. Worse than Sunday afternoons in the 1970s.