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February 4, 2007 3:00 PM

Sadly, the good professor is putting his project on hold for a while, but he's keeping the old stuff around. Well, there's always Latin. The Finns have been mentioned before, the Bremens not. But for sheer opulence, this site takes the prize.
posted by IndigoJones (10 comments total)

The growing interest for Latin language and its use worldwide is something known by everybody: congresses that are celebrated in Latin, cultural meetings, publications about the most different areas, news services (from Helsinki and Bremen), youths that communicate with each other through internet, etc., all of it in the language of Cicero.

Really?
posted by b1tr0t at 3:58 PM on February 4, 2007

Oh god, I'm having a high school flashback.
posted by Rhomboid at 4:13 PM on February 4, 2007

Ars gratia pecuniae
posted by hal9k at 4:18 PM on February 4, 2007

Sadly, my comprehensive education didn't include Latin, but I did notice the Pope's Latinist pronounced the language dead recently. News to me mostly as I had always been lead to believe it had been 'dead' for some time.
posted by Abiezer at 4:33 PM on February 4, 2007

He will surely be missed...
posted by c13 at 5:10 PM on February 4, 2007

Abiezer, despite the headline, the Pope's Latinist did not pronounce Latin dead. He said it's dying, which indeed is not news.
posted by gubo at 5:54 PM on February 4, 2007

Really?

YA, VERE.
posted by chrismear at 12:55 AM on February 5, 2007

Proposition: George Bush is a senator's rectum, eh?
posted by Saucy Intruder at 3:08 AM on February 5, 2007 [1 favorite]

the Pope's Latinist pronounced the language dead

This guy would disagree.
posted by languagehat at 12:00 PM on February 5, 2007

I'm dismayed to learn that Father Reginald was fired for teaching too many students for free. Wrong on so many levels.

Still, can't keep a good man down, even if it is despite himself.
posted by IndigoJones at 4:54 PM on February 5, 2007