Latin
About Latin
Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium, the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, including English, having contributed many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, the sciences, medicine, and law.
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Now, like my school, we had one Latin teacher for the entire school of a thousand kids, right? That's a lot more than many have. Exactly. It's like, there was a report in 2021 that said that staff in the British Civil Service are routinely telling jokes in Latin to exclude lower class colleagues. It is quite an elitist thing still, isn't it, learning Latin or Greek? Is that a problem?
from 599: No Such Thing As Julius Caesar's Plan B, 2025-09-04 at 00:40:25 · read transcript
Other times Latin came up
Very cool. Just couldn't come up with the feminine. Do you think Latin's going to come back? Yeah. Yeah.
No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 · listen
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