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"Need help with French"

If anyone knows French, can you tell me what is the meaning of "Quantum mutatus ab illo!"?

It looks latin...

JFH wrote:

> My school dropped Latin the year I came and replaced it with Spanish.
> I'd have rather learnt Latin because it sounds smarter to say 'I can
> speak Latin' than it does to say 'I can speak Spanish'.

You don't "speak" Latin.

It helps if you're a computer programmer. Learning a dead language is like learning computer codes.

Flock wrote:

> Having just looked for it, i've found it means " How changed we
> are from what we were".

To be pedantic:

"How we have changed from there/that."

It has to have "have" in.
It probably doesn't include "we".

Niddle wrote:
> Latin doesn't help with foreign languages.

It actually helps greatly with English and Italian.

Maybe. But not because you learnt the rough basis of half of French words. Because you've learnt a language, and hence understand patterns of language - Romans weren't the only people about y'know, despite their influence.

Cycloon wrote:
> I know latin makes up a lot. But you said you could've learnt it and
> then known any language at the drop of a hat. Which is bull.

I didn't mean that.
However, if you learnt Latin, then you'd find it a hell of a lot easier to learn a lot of those languages.

For example, if they teach you Latin froma yung age, then, if they try to teach you French from whatever age you started at, you'd find it easier to learn.


That's all I meant.

munn wrote:
> My school = gay for not teaching us Latin.

My school dropped Latin the year I came and replaced it with Spanish. I'd have rather learnt Latin because it sounds smarter to say 'I can speak Latin' than it does to say 'I can speak Spanish'.

He might of mean't is it spoken in our generation.

munn wrote:
> Fine then, Latin makes up a third of the language (actaully, I'm
> lying).
>
> English is a stupid example to take though, it's made up of
> practically every language ever devised.
>
> A lot of English words are still derived from Latin anyway.
> As are a lot of European languages.
>
> You tell me I'm wrong.
>
> I may have worded it wrong originally, but I'm right.
> Again.

I know latin makes up a lot. But you said you could've learnt it and then known any language at the drop of a hat. Which is bull.

And spoken?


Ahahahahahahahahaha, what did the Romans speak, Japanese?

"Meanwhile spoken Latin gradually developed into the Romance languages of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and other dialects, while English was heavily influenced by Latin directly and through French: eventually these languages took over from Latin in modern Europe, though Latin is still used in certain places and contexts, such as in the Vatican at Rome."

Bloody teachers know nothing!
And the git argued with me for 10 minutes about it as well.