Scotus ex patria sum. Patria nostra fortunata non est et duces inter nos. On the other hand people often pretend to more Latin than they have, and those of us who took it in school (only 2 years in my case) often get it wrong too. Perhaps what you really protest is the educational milieu which allows the unthinking absorption of inaccuracies, and their further transmission in a game of oneupmanship. On the other hand much of western Europe would still know and speak the language of Cicero without such faulty transmission. And we wouldn't have such wonderful baroque neologisms as 'oneupmanship'. On yet another hand Latin itself shows traces of having made all sorts of odd, probably innacurate borrowings from Greek and (probably) Etruscan. Plus a language that can get 'anthem' out of 'antiphon' and then keep both words is a precious wonder! john
John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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