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Old 11-03-2008, 03:39 PM   #1
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Latin has been outlawed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7705922.stm

The justification cracks me up:
Proponents claim that "some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important."

I can't help but wonder when they'll start restricting the use of polysyllabic words, arcane literary allusions, et alia.
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Old 11-03-2008, 03:42 PM   #2
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Latin has been outlawed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7705922.stm

The justification cracks me up:
Proponents claim that "some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important."

I can't help but wonder when they'll start restricting the use of polysyllabic words, arcane literary allusions, et alia.
absurdum.
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Old 11-03-2008, 04:01 PM   #3
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Edepol! Furciferi.

"the linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing"

Mary Beard is a very famous classicist. Here's her blog entry on this topic.
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Cali Coug ca 2005: "using Latin generally demonstrates intellectual insecurity."
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Mary Beard is a very famous classicist. Here's her blog entry on this topic.
Nobody's going to take her seriously as a classicist until she takes on a much more condescending, self-important tone.

Went trick-or-treating at the high school and ran into the Latin club. I had half a mind to tell them to pursue a more useful language, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
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Nobody's going to take her seriously as a classicist until she takes on a much more condescending, self-important tone.

Went trick-or-treating at the high school and ran into the Latin club. I had half a mind to tell them to pursue a more useful language, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Care to demonstrate?
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Care to demonstrate?
demonstrate what?
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demonstrate what?
A condescending, self-important tone, of course.
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