Even back when I was studying Latin, it was tagged a “dead” language. But, really—death is as death does. And here are some bons mots as Caesar, Catullus and Cicero never spoke them.
But middle and high school students are reviving Latin in a big way. There is a host of Latin Olympics and Certamen around the country, where kids come together to declaim and discuss the lingua franca of the Imperium.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Or as we say in the old country: America—gonif!
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