Undead, undead
Oct. 16th, 2002 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetClassics-list-poster 1:
"I like to tell students that Hittite and Etruscan and Sumerian are dead
languages, but Latin is a zombie language: technically dead, but still
quite active."
Classics-list-poster 2:
"AND it eats your brain."
Also from this thread:
"I say we should break out of the bias that favors living things over
dead things. Lots of interesting and important people happen to be
dead. Likewise languages and civilizations. Interesting dead people
are the single best reason to learn Latin, in my view."
"I like to tell students that Hittite and Etruscan and Sumerian are dead
languages, but Latin is a zombie language: technically dead, but still
quite active."
Classics-list-poster 2:
"AND it eats your brain."
Also from this thread:
"I say we should break out of the bias that favors living things over
dead things. Lots of interesting and important people happen to be
dead. Likewise languages and civilizations. Interesting dead people
are the single best reason to learn Latin, in my view."
