2 posts tagged with latin by BWA.
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Get Back

Back in the Sixties, English MP Eddie O'Hara taught Latin. To make the language relevant, he put Beatles songs into Latin. Former pupil and current Latin teacher Keith Massey sings one or two in an older language. And not just Beatles [more inside]
posted by BWA on Jan 24, 2017 - 6 comments

What Latin Sounded Like and How We Know

NativLang, brainchild of linguist Joshua Rudder, has a series of videos dealing with various aspects of language, orthography, and so forth. For example: What Latin Sounded Like and How We Know. Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters... The Tribe That Cursed Too Much ... How Korea crafted a better alphabet... India's awesome hybrid alphabet thing... Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants... The Hardest Language To Spell [more inside]
posted by BWA on Aug 19, 2016 - 18 comments

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