I love it when Latin is given a "renaissance" moment... So then for those who read it throughout theBuffalo metro area... Is Latin really a "dead" language? It conveyed the meaning quite nicely... I thought.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Latin "post mortem"?
Fascinating... This week's Sunday Buffalo News in the viewpoints section of the paper in an article about the European financial crisis written by Giles B. Bootheway, he writes: "That was until late November 2011 when the financial markets suddenly realized, like most people, they had forgotten their Latin, specifically: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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Optime, Antoni!
ReplyDeleteLatin is much more underappreciated than people realize. This is why I encourage my Urban League students to take Latin if they give a chance (and I get a chance to encourage them). Without Latin, how will we know medical terms and legal terms; how will we know how to use fine rhetorical terms? This is a beautiful Latin in the "Latin is a dead language" world moment :)