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21st Century Latin: From Bovvered to Binge Drinking
Author(s): Sam Foster (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1840246162
- ISBN-13: 9781840246162
Book Description
Maxime mei paenitet, vendidi uxorem tua in agora eBay. I’m really sorry, I sold your wife on eBay. (Shouted into a mobile phone) Sum in longus quadrigarus! I’m on the train! Nuntiis meis non respondebat, ergo illam reliqui in LociMei. She wasn’t replying to my emails, so I dumped her on MySpace. Ego fleo? Am I bovvered? If Latin’s good enough for Caesar, it’s good enough for you. And some things just sound far better in the old tongue. No longer ‘the dead language’, Latin has been given a whole new lease of life in a manner befitting twenty-first-century folk and their daily chit-chat. From Sat Nav and MySpace to plastic surgery and bingedrinking, this language lover’s bible guarantees you’ll go down a storm when you’re invited to the Vatican.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘really hits the laugh-out-loud spot’
— Glasgow Extra Series, 7th Feb 2008
— Glasgow Extra Series, 7th Feb 2008
The Latin language is as alive as ever with this hilarious phrase book… essential for showing off.
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About the Author
Sam Foster is a scholar of modern Latin, vulgar Latin, and dog Latin.
