I studied Latin and French in high school...french first then Latin, french bored me...Latin made my day...

i think we should start speaking classical Latin again...and not that shit the Vatican ppl use

bonus dies mei amicos.

You mean we should speak the shit you just made up instead?



For starters, "good day" should be in the accusative because it would be an abbreviation of something along the lines of bonum diem vobis exopto "I wish y'all a good day" and not a statement like bonus dies est "It's a good day". "My friends" should be in the vocative because it's used for direct address. Except in the masculine singular, the vocative is identical to the nominative, but what you have there is half nominative (mei) and half accusative (amicos). The dative would also be possible, e.g. meis amicis bonum diem exopto "To my friends I wish a good day!"

But, frankly, this doesn't sound like Classical Latin at all but rather something reverse-translated from a modern European language. That is, it's even more distant from Roman usage than what you'd hear in the Vatican. I don't know of any evidence that bonum diem was in use in Classical times. The usual Roman greeting was salve! for one person and salvete for more than one and the usual leavetaking was vale! in the singular and valete! in the plural.

Vade iam, fili meus, et amplius noli errare!

Wouldn't it be fili mi? Fili seems to be vocative.

I wasn't sure if meus had a distinct form in the vocative since most adjectives don't. Fili meus is attested, but I think you're correct that fili mi is more common.

Who's "we"? None of my ancestors spoke Latin.
Latin, such an overrated language...

It is. I prefer (Ancient) Greek or Old Slavonic. Check out my website:
http://sites.google.com/site/oldchurchslavonic/

And I like Vulgar Latin more than Classical Latin.

Some serious hyperbole there!

Latin is quite a historical language, as is obvious.

Bringing it back would make the civilization essentially immortal. I'm all for it.

Unfortunately, this language is not commonly taught in high schools. I definitely think we should make Latin mandatory in all developed nations ;D

Wth? Why? Most developed nations already have large English speaking majorities. Why impose a more complex and currently unused language on them. It would be smarter to force Mandarin, Spanish, or Arabic to be learned since they already have large speaking populations.

And why developed nations? Wouldn't it be harder to force a developed nation to do something. Third World Countries can be influenced much more easily with money. Then again why would developing countries want to learn a complicated language that won't help them prosper in the global arena?

Latin is already taught in some countries - which have historical and linguistic ties to Rome. Teaching Latin in Italy is reasonable; teaching it in South Korea is absurd.