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[quote="Oldrac the Chitinous"]Malleus/Inchus/Stapes[/quote]
These ones I think are known by their Germanic names mostly, Hammer, Amboss and Steigbügel.

[i]Telos [/i]is Greek.

Most anatomical things are Latin, though. [i]Corpus Callosum, Scapula, Malleus/Inchus/Stapes, et cetera[/i].

Oh that one's easy, it's der Fernseher, or "far seer".

Television!

[quote="starling_bird"][quote="LordRetard"]They still publish some stuff in Latin, but nobody reads it so it's okay.[/quote]

It's called 'botany'... I don't know what it's actually for apart from elitism for those who can pronounce the names.[/quote]
This is one interesting thing I learned when I took German class. In English, the names we use for scientific terms, ex. bones and plants and stuff, are all taken from Latin, whereas German normally uses the original Germanic word. The word "xenophobia"* translates into "Ausländerfeindlichkeit", which most literally means "foreigner hostility". This is what makes German sound so funny and yet very easy to recognise new words!

[size=50]*I confess that this is Greek, but honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of good Latin words that English uses. Oddly enough.[/size]

And in Law, don't forget that.

[quote="LordRetard"]They still publish some stuff in Latin, but nobody reads it so it's okay.[/quote]

It's called 'botany'... I don't know what it's actually for apart from elitism for those who can pronounce the names.

They still publish some stuff in Latin, but nobody reads it so it's okay.

I was annoyed that a dictionary referred to Sanskrit as a dead language, but not Latin.

Hi, Sanskrit!

Welcome to the board!

Please read the rules and post an introduction in the New People thread!

Okay?

Thanks.

Bye.

[quote="Sanskrit"]Great post, well written![/quote]Someone's full of himself.

So I guess it was my ignorance which led to this horrible situation.

I can only lay blame on drinking cool and refreshing Coca-Cola® instead of doing in-depth research on all potential Forum Registrations. Although in my defense it wasn't flagged by any of the Spam-Bot registries, so I guess I can lay part of the blame on everyone who isn't me.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit]14,135 native speakers in India[/url]

It always surprises me that no one seems to know this, but then again I guess it's not really their job.

This is what I get for trusting something named after a dead language.

I GET STABBED IN THE BACK IS WHAT