Sunday, March 11, 2012

Pilates for wordsmiths ...

... LATIN IS THE BEST LANGUAGE | More Intelligent Life.

... [Latin] teaches you grammar and syntax, better than your own language, whose structure you will have absorbed before you are capable of noticing it. Latin offers no hiding place, no refuge for the woolly. Each piece of the sentence has to slot in with the rest; every ending has to be the right one. To learn Latin is to learn rigour.

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