[AT] Cecil, Latin, words and tractors

[Grant Brians]

Cecil, I envy both you and my mother who partly got her scholarship to 
USC based on her four years of Latin and the terrific Latin teacher at 
her high school here in California. On the other hand I did four years 
of Spanish and read and speak it nearly fluently. But then I use Spanish 
6 days a week too once again after a number of years of infrequent use. 
When I worked in the Tech business, I was the one in preference to our 
Mexican-American employees who handled most of the Spanish language 
technical calls and also taught several classes in Brazil in 
"tri-lingual format" - my speaking Spanish and English and the students 
speaking Portuguese and English....
      I will admit that at various times in my life I just would leaf 
through the dictionary and read about word origins, they are fun. I have 
my own copy of the Oxford English dictionary and although I rarely open 
it any more I love it with the cool historic usages in there. The 
history of that project is really cool. Mine is sadly the one that you 
need the magnifying glass for rather than the 13 volume library edition 
though.
      On the tractor front, our Ford 5030 tractor with the 8 speed 
reverser transmission decided to eat some tranny bearings and an input 
shaft. The mechanic has it apart and we should have it back together 
early next week. I was looking inside and intrigued by the engineering. 
I am used to working on Oliver 6F-2R transmissions, Caterpillars, Ford 
trucks, Studebakers (yeah Borg-Warner) and Massey-Fergusons. Way too 
many times Massey-Ferguson! I am hoping the hydraulics are all ok with 
the metal from this Ford transmission as I would really like to avoid 
that added parts cost.... Back to work!
                 Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of 
vegetables, herbs, nuts and fruit

  On 7/15/2015 3:58 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> I never heard of it either and I had 4 years of Latin......   All I
> remember from it is "Et Tu Brute"
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 7/15/2015 2:48 PM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
>> 13 years at school sometimes even lucubrating just went down the drain. So
>> I'd better go back to "I have a cat. My cat is black. "
>>
>> Med vänlig hälsning
>>
>> Mattias Kessén
>>
>> www.rodjagard.n.nu
>>
>> Sent from my not so smart phone.