Jumble: Verb - To mix up in a disorganized mess.
Noun - The mess, itself

Amaranth - I've never seen the flowers/leaves used as food, but I do know that the seeds are used as a grain for making breads.


Latin isn't really dead: Many European languages were derived from Latin, so we're still using a lot of Latin words, in a way.

I had to study Latin in school. Since I got to choose whether to continue, I chose not to.

Latin doesn't have any real practical use. I mostly use it for reading proverbs.

Yes, latin is dead. Elfen lied theme song is awesome though.

Just wondering here: Which all languages use the gender system? I mean I know French & Hindi refer to stuff like this is a he/she. English calls it all 'It'. So what all other language? Personal curiosity here.

I know Spanish also has genders.

In a pragmatic perspective, Latin is dead as it has not much purpose towards the contemporary period. However, it has other uses, mainly through studying events and literary figures during the Renaissance, and probably Philosophy scholars and lawyers use a few Latin terminologies (e.g. argumentum ad hominem, tu quoque, magna cum laude, mea culpa).

In the previous theoretical linguistics subjects I attended, most languages in the IE Family (Indo-European Languages) have genders. Meaning English, Spanish, French, and some other IE Languages have this characteristic.

I don't trust Wikipedia too much, but I guess this can answer your question: link to wikipedia =D

Edit: Not all nouns in English are called with "it." It also has gender classifications (with a neuter, for nouns that cannot be classified as a masc or fem). You don't see a "queen" used with an "it," don't you? XD XD XD XD

Bulgarian, Russian and some other Slavic languages also have genders.

Masculine and feminine grammar genders does exist in Dutch, but it's a common gender, so they're clamped together.

romanian, russian, bulgarian, italian, spanish, french and basically all other latin and slavic related languages have genders for objects/fruit/animals, as i recall.

but certain objects don't always have same gender in different languages. i.e.: in romanian, the apricots are females whereas in french they are males.
in romanian, we differentiate genders even in numeral, like so:
- one apricot (="o caisa" ), one peach (="o piersica" ) or one box (="o cutie" ), "O" being the equivalent of one for feminine objects only. While for masculine objects, one dog/tree/grape (="un caine/copac/strugure), the numeral is "un".
- unlike french, we also differentiate genders for the second said object. while they have "deux" for all objects, regardless of their initial gender, we have "DOUA" for female genders :doua biciclete/caise (=two bikes/apricots); and "DOI" for male genders: doi caini/copaci/struguri (=two dogs/trees/grapes).
-because we also have gender based numeral for the second object, we also have NEUTRAL genders.
if one object is feminine in both quantities (apricot, for example: o caisa, doua caise) the gender of the object is assumed as being female. same goes for masculine: tree, for example, un copac, doi copaci. tree is a masculine noun.
BUT we can have things that change gender the moment they become two, like chair: un scaun (which may seem masculine at first), DOUA scaune (but NO!) this is a NEUTRAL noun. neutral nouns always go after the structure 1-M/2-F and NEVER 1-F/2-M.

SO we have a bit of a mess in our damn language. it's a very complicated language (says a native, mind you!)

o.O WOAH. WOOAH. COMMENT SPAM! I seriously didn't expect sooo many answers. o.e

Oh thanks guys, anyways.

...and that's a LOT of languages. o.e I didn't know sooo many use the gender system.

Anyone INTERESTED in sharpening their French listening skills? Listen at this---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5_T1l_-Pys and try to jot down the lyrics!

(...not that I need the lyrics or something xD)