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Radiophonica Finnica Generalis
For almost 20 years, Finnish radio has been running a daily news program in Latin. It’s on FM in Finland, on shortwave everywhere else. Here’s their page about that program, with some old broadcasts...
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Wall Street Bungles and Bailouts
Here‘s a succinct account of the current difficulties big US financial firms are facing. It’s from Nuntii Latini, the Latin-language news service from Finnish radio. And here is an argument that the...
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President-Elect Obama
It’s appropriate that Election Day should come so shortly after Halloween. As the ghosts and ghouls vanish into their occult places when day breaks, so the bogeymen and superstars of the campaign...
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Ukulele and Languages
Ukulele and Languages collects ukulele videos in (you’ll never guess!) various languages. The latest post includes a couple of videos of Danish songs; this one, by “EvertParkLars,” is particularly...
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Pattern recognition
Friend of the blog Armelle Europe has posted a couple of hilarious videos by Alfred Williams at her website, Ukulele and Languages. If you like puns, you’ll like “I Can’t Think of Any Jokes“; if you...
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What is a word for “grandparents of the same child”?
A simplified chart of Latin kinship terms At Language Log, a post asks whether many English speakers use the expression “brothers-in-law” to refer to men whose relationship is that their wives are...
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Two items of interest to Classics types
When the world was young and I was in grad school, many of my classmates went to Rome to hang out with Father Reginald Foster. Reggie, as they all called him, is an American priest who at that time...
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A possible etymology of the name “Acilius”
I’ve long used “Acilius” as my screen-name, in tribute to Gaius Acilius, a Roman historian who was alive and doing interesting things in 155 BC. It never occurred to me that anyone would know the...
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Three things I hope the next pope will do
I’m not a Roman Catholic, so it’s really none of my business who will be chosen as the new Pope in the next week or two. But I can’t resist mentioning that there are three things I hope the new papacy...
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