When the world was young and I was in grad school, many of my classmates went to Rome to hang out with Father Reginald Foster. Reggie, as they all called him, is an American priest who at that time was in charge of translating official Vatican documents into Latin. His schedule was light in the [...]
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Two items of interest to Classics types
Posted by acilius on August 31, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/08/31/two-items-of-interest-to-classics-types/
Cicero would have been great on Twitter
That’s what Forbes magazine says, anyway.
Posted by acilius on January 21, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/21/cicero-would-have-been-great-on-twitter/
What is a word for “grandparents of the same child”?
At Language Log, a post asks whether many English speakers use the expression “brothers-in-law” to refer to men whose relationship is that their wives are sisters and “sisters-in-law” to refer to women whose relationship is that their husbands are brothers. So would it be idiomatic to say that my wife and my brother’s wife are one another’s sisters-in-law? Commenters [...]
Posted by acilius on November 20, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/11/20/what-is-a-word-for-grandparents-of-the-same-child/
Pattern recognition
Friend of the blog Armelle Europe has posted a couple of hilarious videos by Alfred Williams at her website, Ukulele and Languages. If you like puns, you’ll like “I Can’t Think of Any Jokes“; if you like visual puns, you’ll like “Trinidad Looks Quite Like Wales.” Some time ago, Armelle embedded a video of Alfred [...]
Posted by acilius on October 21, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/10/21/pattern-recognition/
Ukulele and Languages
Ukulele and Languages collects ukulele videos in (you’ll never guess!) various languages. The latest post includes a couple of videos of Danish songs; this one, by “EvertParkLars,” is particularly likable. Voodoo Marmalade is apparently Portugal‘s answer to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. They are off to a good start; considering that UOGB has been [...]
Posted by acilius on July 1, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/07/01/ukulele-and-languages/
President-Elect Obama
It’s appropriate that Election Day should come so shortly after Halloween. As the ghosts and ghouls vanish into their occult places when day breaks, so the bogeymen and superstars of the campaign season pass out of view once the election is over. It’s back to Alaska with Sarah Palin, back to work for “Joe the Plumber,” [...]
Posted by acilius on November 5, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/11/05/president-elect-obama/
Wall Street Bungles and Bailouts
Here‘s a succinct account of the current difficulties big US financial firms are facing. It’s from Nuntii Latini, the Latin-language news service from Finnish radio. And here is an argument that the bailout the treasury and Federal Reserve have proposed is, in the literal sense of a much-overused term, fascism. And as usual, Tom Tomorrow [...]
Posted by acilius on September 24, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/24/wall-street-bungles-and-bailouts/
Radiophonica Finnica Generalis
For almost 20 years, Finnish radio has been running a daily news program in Latin. It’s on FM in Finland, on shortwave everywhere else. Here’s their page about that program, with some old broadcasts available on RealAudio. http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/radiophonica-finnica-generalis/
Aulus Gellius Online
I’m sure you’re all as fascinated by the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius as I am. Who isn’t? Here’s his book, the Attic Nights, online, in Latin with some of the English from the Loeb translation. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/home.html Here’s Gellius referenced in Irving Babbitt’s Literature and The American College. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RfQTAAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=aulus+gellius+i-babbitt&ots=cqiPp6VQKP&sig=NI-thKMCKk7xaNQqMX3hjfIAgYI Here’s the frontispiece from an early edition of [...]
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/aulus-gellius-online/
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