Students Insult Latin
Posted by Kushana Torumekia at 5/18/2009 2:37 PM 
Categories: Grace, Classics, Mary Beard, Newnham College, Latin, University of Cambridge, Languages
Tags: Grace Mary Beard Classics Latin Newnham College University of Cambridge Languages
Categories: Grace, Classics, Mary Beard, Newnham College, Latin, University of Cambridge, Languages
Tags: Grace Mary Beard Classics Latin Newnham College University of Cambridge Languages
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The students of Newnham College (University of Cambridge) have written a new grace that Classicist Mary Beard disapproves of:http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/05/does-college-need-a-new-grace.html
My response:
1) Any current students can write in Latin? Saints be praised!
2) Citizens of the Roman Empire used Latin to say everything, be it vapid, vague, scandalous, or heretical. We have so long used Latin as the language of education and the Church that we forget it was the language of racetrack betters, political campaigns, prostitutes, and slaves.
I recommend Dr. Beard reread the Satyricon .
From the Land where Latin is No Longer Taught —
-Kushana
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