Monday, December 28, 2020

Latin, the dead language

 

Margalit Fox does it again. Today's NYT carries her obituary writeup on a Carmelite monk who was the official Latinist for the Vatican.

She writes that he dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately Tweeted in Latin. He was LXXXI. She has other jewels in her half page story which try to catch.

tjs(NYT)

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