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Jan. 16, 1989: World Notes:Israel
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 16, 1989 Donald Trump
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
LANGUAGE
Latine Loqui Libet
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<p> Once the lingua franca of the civilized world, Latin today
is little more than the fusty muttering of academics,
historians and (some) priests. But in Rome a team of linguists
led by top Latin scholar Abbot Carlo Egger is working to rectify
that unspeakable state of linguistic affairs.
</p>
<p> This spring the Vatican is publishing the A-to-L volume of a
lexicon turning into Latin some 15,000 phrases that did not
exist in the time of Cicero and Caesar. Among the neologisms
from the complete opus: ampla rerum venalium domus
(supermarket), ignitabulum nicotianum (cigarette lighter),
nuntius fulminans (news flash) and mulierum liberatio (women's
lib). Beams Abbot Egger, who is also the editor of a Latin
newspaper: "This is proof; Latin can be used even today for
everything."
</p>
<p> Well, maybe. But how many guys are going to ask their girls
to join them in a saltatio carolotoniensis (Charleston) on the
extrema hebdomada feriata (weekend)? The answer, needless to
say, is manifestum.
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