Them patriarchal classical languages had to go
29
Apr
Recent Comments
Will S.’ Random Weirdness Blog- ‘transient anus’
- Winged jellyfish
- Yellow submarine octopus’ garden
- Cowboys on unicorns
- The day nothing happened
- Abraham Lincoln is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame; his signature move was the Body Slam
- Intexticated
- Nuts
- American couple sails aboard a cargo ship across the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan
- Pork Rind Nachos with Pulled Pork
- Will S.’ Culture War Blog
- Now there are people objecting to the term ‘man-hours’
- Comic: Overeducated
- Seattle Mayor Proposes Offering Sharia Law-Compliant Home Loans for Muslims
- Boy Scouts of America Votes to Allow Open Homosexuals as Leaders
- Indian magazine launches #DontManCriminate campaign
- Chicago ‘Theological Seminary’? Nope
- Planned Parenthood: Making Nazi Death Camps Look Like Friendly Nurseries
- Anti-Christian, feminist pornographic ‘art’ displayed at Ontario government art gallery
- Satanic Temple still plans to unveil devil statue in Detroit, despite protests
- Texas Christian in Court After Being Served Up Fine for Feeding Homeless Out of Pickup Truck
- Will S.’ Sunny Side Blog
- Fire and brimstone falling on Frisco
- Fifteen Karens trying to change a lightbulb
- Soyjak vs. Chad
- Good one, Elon
- 55-year-old frozen fruitcake “didn’t taste different from any fruitcake we’ve ever had”
- Greater Fаlklаndіа tourism posters
- Cowboys on unicorns
- Even with bad pun dad jokes, he don’t miss
- Sitting on a gold mine
- Telecommuter sprint
- Will S.’ Anarcho-Tyranny Blog
- In the U.K. you must be 16 to buy flour and eggs
- Laptops in police cruisers: why?
- Woman, 73, fatally shot by Florida officer role-playing as ‘bad guy’ during citizen police academy
- Government investigates woman for letting her children play in fenced-in backyard
- Living Ohio man Donald Miller ruled ‘legally dead’
- Some anarcho-tyranny in the Netherlands
- Comic: Overeducated
- Maybe They Should Spend More Time Learning and Less Time Testing…
- It’s Not a Snake, It’s an Emotional Support Service Animal
- Cornwall kids defy bylaw to stop selling worms
Authors
-
Patriactionary 
fitzhamilton
April 29, 2024 at 2:17 am
This is one very salient reason that the ancient liturgy and piety of the West must be restored, and hitherto vociferously defended.
Most of my prayer for four years now has been in Latin, and I am beginning to pray extemporaneously, if briefly and haltingly, in our universal ancestral tongue. It is more beautiful, more mysterious than English, it sets my discourse with God apart, in the most sacred precinct of my mind and heart.
Studying languages as academic subjects is almost useless, you have to begin communicating with them for essential reasons, for sake of felt need and desire, for them to take true hold of you. They take best when the communication involves love, friendship, sex, other atavistic desires and needs..
And there is no need more atavistic than the love and adoration of our God.
Forget the pagan poets. Pick up the Vulgate and learn to pray it. That will make your Latin take, and take fast.
feeriker
April 29, 2024 at 4:06 am
As an amateur linguist, one of my deepest regrets was never having had the opportunity to take either Greek or Latin in school. Knowledge of both would have made my early adult life a lot easier in certain respects.
Will S.
April 29, 2024 at 9:55 am
Same.
feeriker
April 29, 2024 at 4:09 am
Unfortunately, the Classical Education ship has sailed. Can anyone seriously picture the majority of what passes for today’s high school students, who can’t even function in their own native language, becoming fluent in ancient ones? The very idea is laughable.
Will S.
April 29, 2024 at 9:56 am
Alas…
Another Dave
April 29, 2024 at 10:50 am
One of the specialized high schools here in NYC, where students are only admitted based on getting an A in a city wide aptitude exam, is called Brooklyn Latin, and 4 years of Classical Latin is mandatory, as it is in several of the more elite Catholic high schools in the city.
My son was admitted to Brooklyn Latin, but we chose a school closer to home that was equally as rigorous, but not requiring Latin.
The point being, Latin and Greek are making a comeback among elite prep schools, but the children that attend are unusually bright, and capable of excelling at that type of course work.
Expecting your average American teenager to study Latin or Greek is, at this point, almost out of the question.
bluebird of bitterness
April 29, 2024 at 2:17 pm
I’m a girl, and I took Latin and Greek. (Of course everyone told me I was crazy, but whatever…)
Farm Boy
April 29, 2024 at 2:26 pm
Socrates died of an overdose of wedlock
Will S.
April 29, 2024 at 2:29 pm
@ FB: {Snort}
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/27/drink-it/
Will S.
April 29, 2024 at 2:27 pm
🙂
Elspeth
April 29, 2024 at 8:26 pm
Both of our homeschooled kids (two youngest) have taken several years of Latin at their hybrid school. Now…it wasn’t optional, so I don’t know that they would have done so in a regular school where high schoolers have choices, but we didn’t give them one, and they’re better for it.
bluebird of bitterness
April 30, 2024 at 9:42 am
👍🏼
Elspeth
April 29, 2024 at 8:28 pm
Which brings to another sidebar, and PSA: If you look into a Christian “classical” school that does not offer either Latin or Greek as required language classes at the high school level (and they need to take it all 4 years), it is NOT a classical school. They’re using the term to trick you and rope you in for the tuition money, LOL.
Will S.
April 29, 2024 at 9:54 pm
Yeah. Sue ’em into bankruptcy for false advertising! 🙂