Re: Dead languages?

docdwarf_at_panix.com
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 22:23:03 -0400

In article <40edb378$1$284$4d4ebb8e@news.nl.uu.net>,
Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> wrote:
>Richard Maine wrote:
>
>> Oh dear! My high school Latin text must have had a bowdlerized
>> version or something. I'd *SWEAR* I remember this as
>> 'Alles Gall in tres partes divisa est'.
>
>There must be a missing :-) somewhere here (a more scholarly reply follows).
>
>No, you're mixing up German with Latin.
>
>Of course, this is not the most entertaining way in which Latin is dead.

No, the most entertaining was that bit of doggerel:

Oh, Latin is a language,
As dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans -
And now it's killing me!'

DD

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