Annus horribilis
 

Latin has been outlawed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7705922.stm

The justification cracks me up:
Proponents claim that "some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important."

I can't help but wonder when they'll start restricting the use of polysyllabic words, arcane literary allusions, et alia.

absurdum.

Edepol! Furciferi.

"the linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing"

Mary Beard is a very famous classicist. Here's her blog entry on this topic.

Cali Coug ca 2005: "using Latin generally demonstrates intellectual insecurity."

Nobody's going to take her seriously as a classicist until she takes on a much more condescending, self-important tone.

Went trick-or-treating at the high school and ran into the Latin club. I had half a mind to tell them to pursue a more useful language, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Care to demonstrate?

demonstrate what?

A condescending, self-important tone, of course.

Bump

damn you