Latin etc.

[JOSEPH E. LAFERRIERE]

>    In 1968, I published "Conspectus systematis Corticiacearum" (261 pp.) in
>  Latin, with a short introductory part in Russian.
>     Erast Parmasto

Thank you for making my point better than I did.


>     Conclusion: le latin est, entre autres, clairement une reponse a
>  l'oppression neo-colonialiste et imperialiste.

If so, it is a major historical irony. The romans virtually
invented the word "imperialism," having been the nazis of
their era.


>  I like all this comments and I have found all this stories amusing, I am
>  very please with Joseph Laferrriere contributions, and have to laugh to read
>  about poor Americanos who feel offended and who forget that someone can feel
>  upset about their point of view.

Thank you for the very nice compliments. You may have been
laughing, but the three Americans who wrote me off-line
to comment were not amused (the word "hostage" figuring
very prominently in all three). Their feelings I do not
take lightly.
   But this illustrates my point very well. Language is
a very emotional topic, viewed differently by different
people in different countries. In the French-speaking
province of Quebec, Canada, the provincial government
passed a law mandating not only that street signs must
be bilingual in English and French, but that the French
must be above the English. This was a source of major pride.
Emotions about language run very high there as in many other
places. People advocating English as the sole language must
take these things into account. Latin is unemotional for
most people because whatever wrongs the Romans committed
are quite literally ancient history.

--
Dr. Joseph E. Laferriere
"Computito ergo sum ...  I link therefore I am."