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Jan.29.2013
Lions, lions everywhere... no kidding. People love lions. The ancient Jews loved lions. Jacob, one of the patriarchs of the Jews was referred to as a lion in the Book of Genesis. The lion became the symbol of the Israelite tribe of Jacob's son Judah so Judah also signifies lion. In times of...
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Oct.18.2012
I’ve always loved languages – starting with English – and I couldn’t wait until I had an opportunity to learn a new language at school. For me that opportunity didn’t come until ninth grade.
But instead of opting to study a romance language I took my father’s advice to study Latin. After all Latin...
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Mar.25.2012
"Quo Vadis" is Latin. It means, in flowery translation, "Whither goest thou?" Sometimes, do you wander into a past time and if so, whither goest thou?
My blog is intended to be a doorway to another dimension where, for a few moments, we may wander to refresh our spirits. It is not meant to be...
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Oct.28.2011
The English, those sometimes politely arrogant bastards who invented the language, often take great delight in calling things whatever they damn well please, and logic, be hanged! For example, in England a “Public School” is in fact an exclusive, obscenely expensive, private school where the Ruling...
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Mar.27.2011
Pencil, from the Latin penicillus, meaning "little tail." Little tail?
Not everyone writes even occasionally with the old-fashioned yellow pencil with pink eraser top anymore. This astonishing fact came to my attention through a more newfangled way to communicate, the Facebook post....
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Jun.23.2010
I've just noticed this sad note. "Blindness" was my introduction to this writer's fascinating style. He tended to use little punctuation - even periods, which can be a burden to the punctuation inclined.
But that fact hooked my pal Dave Frauenfelder, an expert at Latin and Greek,...
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May.31.2010
The writing was carefully painted onto a wall at Salisbury Cathedral Photo: APEX Oldest example of written English discovered in churchWhat is believed to be the first ever example of English in a British church has been discovered.
It was written half a millennia ago and its message was serious...
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Aug.12.2009
Shipping a pound of wood pulp across a continent is a wasteful way to send a few megabytes of data—data that can now fly through the ether in seconds. This downside of printed books is why I bought a Kindle a couple of months ago. I’m happy to start bidding adieu to other print-book byproducts....
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Jan.25.2008
“Amo, Amas, Amat …”
San Francisco State (Spring, 1989). It was the first day of Latin class. As we conjugated the verb “to love” who would have thought love really was in the air. While struggling with declensions in the back of the room, I spied a wild-haired Caribbean queen in the front...
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