Honestly, I don't even know why I try to keep up with this blog anymore. Maybe I'll be able to settle into a regular posting schedule once the school year is over. Maybe.
In the meantime, let's talk language, shall we? Do you find yourself watching Doc Holiday and Johnny Ringo antagonizing each other in Latin in Tombstone and say to yourself, "Golly, I wish I could do that." No? Um...well, then I got nothing. But I'll pretend you responded enthusiastically in the affirmative.
While my own abilities with Latin have atrophied to the point where anything beyond a preposition or the name of a logical fallacy is pretty well beyond my grasp, I did recently stumble upon a site that compiled a number of "Handy Latin Phrases," the most pertinent of which I humbly offer so that you too may speak in the language of Caesar, Livy, Cicero, and Horace.
Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
May barbarians invade your personal space!
and perhaps my personal favorite:
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.
Don't say I didn't ever do anything for you.
