Comments on: Old News

Old News

IndigoJones — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:00:14 -0800

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.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:58:11 -0800

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?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:13:43 -0800

Oh god, I'm having a high school flashback.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:18:16 -0800

Ars gratia pecuniae

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:33:28 -0800

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.

By: c13

c13 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:10:17 -0800

He will surely be missed...

By: gubo

gubo — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:54:44 -0800

Abiezer, despite the headline, the Pope's Latinist did not pronounce Latin dead. He said it's dying, which indeed is not news.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:55:11 -0800

Really? YA, VERE.

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:08:37 -0800

Proposition: George Bush is a senator's rectum, eh?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00:14 -0800

the Pope's Latinist pronounced the language dead This guy would disagree.

By: IndigoJones

IndigoJones — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:54:47 -0800

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.