In case you wondered …

… The Idler | Why Latin is an essential skill in the digital age. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“In today’s digital world, the language is more necessary than ever to teach us critical thinking and powerful expression… Being able to break down and rebuild sentences — that is, being able clearly to comprehend or construct a thought — is a skill that translates well into English. But my generation speaks a dialect of English that is native to the internet, and we are losing our ability to understand how our language works. English, mostly thanks to politics and social media, is being degraded tweet by tweet. We live in a world of hashtags, of broken sentences and fragments of ideas published on social media…” (Benjamin Auslin, high school student.)