Jollyblogger shares my love of Latin (and C.S. Lewis). 🙂
"When I was in college I took a couple of years of Latin. I don't remember much except to say that very often I hear a word and intuitively know its meaning because of past memories of Latin. My wife and I homeschool our kids and try to teach as close as we can to the Classical Model. Latin is the foundation of the classical education model"
Here’s a (sadly) brief article about the art of preserving Latin and keeping it in step with the times. The Latin-English dictionary mentioned is here.
The classes I’ve taken in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience led me to believe that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis had been discredited. It seems, however, that research of a similar vein has been published. Maybe there’s something to the idea after all.
This
post on Disputations, discussing a variant of English lacking “to be”
called E-prime, would not grab my attention except that Pittsburghese might be a
dialect of it. We of Da Burgh frequently drop “to be” when using the verb
“need”. “The car needs washed”, “Your homework needs done.”,
etc. I suppose it could also be used with “want”. “The cat wants
fed”, for instance, would work. Any native Pittsburghers (I’m a transplant)
think any examples need added?
I, and several other St. Blog’s parishioners, blogged
about the “Good As New” translation (or should I say, bastardization)
of the Bible. Here’s another
article that provides more examples of the atrocities held within. It’s not just about bad philology.
“Henson even cuts out eight entire New Testament books that don’t
suit him: 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude and Revelation.There’s addition as well as subtraction. Following one scholarly sect, he puts the
Gospel of Thomas alongside
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, though Christianity discarded Thomas. Henson makes
the debatable claim that it’s “probably” among the earliest Christian
writings and “possibly” as early as the other four.”