Local councils in Britain had decided to remove Latin from official documents creating consternation in classics circles. From AP:
The council in Bournemouth, a town of 170,000 on England’s south coast, has a ”plain language” policy that lists 19 Latin words and phrases to be avoided, and suggests replacements. The council recommends ”improvised” instead of ad hoc, and ”genuine” for bona fide.
This “ethnic” cleansing of the language has brought the British bookworms out into the light:
‘Think of the number of words from Latin that are now part of the English language: alias, alibi, exit, terminus,” said Peter Jones, a retired professor of classics at the University of Newcastle and founder of Friends of Classics. ”Are they going to cut out those words?”
”The English language is a hybrid animal that has adopted any number of words and phrases from other languages which have become a part of English,” he added. ”To deny the hybrid nature of the English language is almost like ethnic cleansing of English.”
All I can say is “ita sit,” y’all. [Ita sit, "So be it."]
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