Ad infinitum biography of latin
Ad infinitum biography of latin
Ad infinitum biography of latin english...
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
September 5, 2023
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Too dry for a popular history, too lacking in rigor for an academic one. He also has a particular thesis, which makes the book rather awkward to read for anyone just looking for a historical narrative that isn't going out of its way to "prove" things.
The earlier chapters are perhaps the best, and the quality of the text just gradually decays once he moves pass the late antiquity.
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definately some peculiar views in places....
He's got this conviction that English will just eventually wither and die, though he can't really formulate 'how' since the political or economic arguments lead to a dead end, but he grasps onto a highly optimistic view of machine translation.
And English, like Latin, won't be needed anymore, because we'll all have this flawless bablefish, even the airline pilots i suppose.....
or odd barbs that if the European Union, adopted latin, just think of the savings in translation costs....
Too dry for a popular history, too lacking in rigor for an academic one. He also has a particular thesis, which makes the book rather awkward to read for anyone just looking for a historical narrative that isn't going out of its way to "prove" things.
The earlier chapters are perhaps the best, and the quality of the text just gradually decays once he moves pass the late antiquity.
E.
---
definately some peculiar views in places....
He's got this conviction that English will just eventually wither and die, though he can't really formulate 'how' since the political or economic arguments lead to a dead end, but he grasps onto a highly optimistic view of machine translation.
And English, like Latin, won't be needed anymore, because we'll all have this flawless bablefish, even the airline pilots i suppose.....
or odd barbs that if the European Union, adopted latin, just think of the savings in translation costs....