Len
>>So, at least for my family, Latin seems to be far from a dead language<<
Ah, the joys of a classical education. I too studied Latin for 2 years- compulsory for the class I was in
There is no room for Latin in many schools these days because students are too busy learning "molecules"; this consists of plugging 2 red and 1 blue globe onto connectors and getting an A+ for correctly constructing water.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
