Search this site
Matching entries from BatesLine linkblog
How can I type macrons? - Latin Language Meta Stack Exchange
How can I type macrons? - Latin Language Meta Stack Exchange Macrons (long vowels) are used in Latin language instruction, but typing them using a standard English keyboard involves complicated Alt codes or point-and-click to select symbols. Here's a method...
Part of Sir Isaac Newton's Manuscripts Were Written in Greek | Greek Reporter Europe
Part of Sir Isaac Newton's Manuscripts Were Written in Greek | Greek Reporter Europe "The notebooks in which Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much of classical science is based were partly written in Greek, proving that in...
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker "On returning to New York, I registered for an elementary class in ancient Greek at Columbia University and blithely submitted the bill to the [New Yorker] magazine's new executive editor,...
Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist? | The Spectator
Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist? | The Spectator "In Search of the Phoenicians explores the links that connected these people, language and religion foremost among them, while emphasising the absence of ties based on nationhood and ethnicity. To...
Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes - The New York Times
Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes - The New York Times Another example of totalitarian manipulation of language for control, from a story about a new writing system for the Kazakh language. 'Later, growing fearful of pan-Turkic...
The Vatican's Latinist | The New Criterion
The Vatican's Latinist | The New Criterion A profile of the Father Reginald Foster, who, for forty years, rendered documents of the Roman Catholic Church in its official language: 'A humanist par excellence, Latin for Foster was not something to...
Latin Pronunciation
THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN: Ancient and Modern Pronunciations "A great deal of heat, if not light, has been spent on the problem of the "correct pronunciation of Latin". Probably most students will go with the method that their teachers use,...
The Bond villain libertarians of Guatemala | Washington Examiner
The Bond villain libertarians of Guatemala | Washington Examiner "Francisco Marroquin -- named after the first Bishop of Guatemala, who translated several of the indigenous languages -- is one of the best universities in Latin America. Its fees are at...
Latin should be taught in every state primary school, says leading academic | The Independent
Latin should be taught in every state primary school, says leading academic | The Independent "Professor Dennis Hayes, an expert from the University of Derby and Chair of the College of Education Research Committee, has warned that Latin and ancient...
Bradley's Arnold: A practical guide to Latin prose composition
Bradley's Arnold: A practical guide to Latin prose composition: openlibrary.org When in Rome, write as the Romans do. This is George Granville Bradley's original revision of Thomas Kerchever Arnold's earlier work. Newer editions are still used as the standard text...
Feed Subscription
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries matching 'Latin language'. [What is this?]
