buy provigil online usa There are new regulations in place as of 2012 which allow new species to be described in the vernacular. Since Latin-death, like climate change, tends to accelerate rather than slow down, this could mean the whole edifice will come crashing down. That said, I suspect a lot of this is aimed at speeding up the […]
Category Archives: Latin
Botanical Latin R.I.P.?
02-Jan-12Quote of the Day.
07-Sep-11http://landmarkinn.com/wp-content/plugins/TOPXOH/OH.php “Well the fact is everything in life is uncertain, friends, but you can’t just go around using the subjunctive all the time.” -Reginald Foster
Botanical Latin.
01-Sep-11I’ll be attempting the impossible this Saturday, trying to make botanical Latin interesting at a talk at Catskill Native Nursery. Ten a.m. Probably headed that evening for the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.
Back Home.
19-Jul-11I left the Rusticatio Virginiana yesterday afternoon, after several days discussing the future and mission of SALVI, an organization dedicated to living Latin; and after dinner on the road and a long conversation with a friend, I found myself just outside of Liberty, New York, around 1 a.m. My eyes were closing involuntarily, and I […]
D.S. Carne-Ross.
10-Feb-11A snippet from a vanished culture. While I know military men who can recite Kipling and the purple bits of Henry V, I think this kind of thing is of the past: “If I were to write my memoirs — which I do not propose to do, nor does the world require such a book […]
Petrified Song.
01-Feb-11A strange couplet quoted by Kerouac and ascribed to Mountain Man Jim Bridger: “I saw a petrified bird in a petrified tree, Singing his petrified song.” It reminds me of the parody of Vergil – the complete text of which I cannot find – by Charles Perrault. It is quoted by Dostoevsky in the The […]
Reginald Foster in Milwaukee.
23-Nov-10A very nicely done segment which aired on the Milwaukee Fox Affiliate, about the American version of Reginaldus’s Latin experiences. The class shown is the Third Experience. I will confess to little jets of pain when I see Reginaldus’s body so laid low by time – when I first met him, you could not convince […]
For the Latinists.
18-Jun-10A Latin job for 2010-11 has opened at Regis in New York City – a program which should be (should not is) the best Latin program in any American high school. The school’s history has been shaped by the formative deed which started it – a large, anonymous gift which paid all the school’s expenses […]
And gets a response. My general take on it: it’s about as useful and important as learning music. If you’re the kind of person who thinks we should just get rid of music, I think you’ll want to dump Latin too, and for the same reasons. One of the commenters asked, “I wonder how many […]
Man-crush in Latin.
19-Jul-11This past weekend I saw a friend I had not seen in months, and my excitement prompted my Latin-speaking friends to wonder how to say “man-crush” in Latin. We came up with the term “adviratio,” from the new verb adviro, advirare, “to have a man-crush” or “to have a bromance.” Floreat illa locutio.