Latin is a dead language. No one speaks Latin as his native language, and this has been the case for more than a millennium. The people who teach Latin, even very good ones, cannot say more than a few sentences of Latin in succession. Latin has not been required for admissions into American college for more than a 100yr. Harvard, whose motto is “Veritas” (Truth) and The University of Chicago, whose motto is “Crescat scientia vita excolatur” (Let learning increase and thereby life be enriched), and…
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