Re: Latin (was Language universal?)

At 8:05 am -0500 8/2/01, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Raymond Brown wrote:
[...]
>> But stick with it.  Reading Catullus & Vergil in the original makes it all
>> worth it.
>
>I'm sure.  (OTOH, I have a friend who took three years of HS Latin and is
>taking a year of college Latin, and she says she's sick of translating
>Cicero...)
That I can understand.  His letters are interesting (and more like the real
Latin he must've spoken everyday) but his speeches & his 'philosophic'
writings can get a bit much.  Not my favorite author (tho some love him).

But Catullus ... well, that's a completely different ball game  :)

Ray.


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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
                   [J.G. Hamann 1760]
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