Dictionarese and the Death of Latin

As I wrote to the colleague who forwarded a link to Harry Mount’s op-ed piece in the NYT on Latin, this is painfully unreadable and barely Latin, whic

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The centaur at the forest’s edge

As I work on making my first pot roast and in the lull before my daily workout (summers off are a nice perk for the teacher) I’m reading a bit of Jaco

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Is nothing sacred?

A reader has e-mailed to ask about the correct Latin translation of the phrase ‘is nothing sacred?’, made famous in Wes Anderson’s classic Rushmore as

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