These articles by our own Robert Patrick and John Piazza fit in with the current thread started by David. I think that they are important for us to read, in case we get into discussion with any colleagues who don’t fully get the atomic bomb aspect of what is happening in the Latin community right now. Let’s not walk the walk with our modern languages and just talk the talk with Latin. We need to fully support what our Latinists are doing in their work. That means when I hear Diana Noonan joking about how Latin is no longer spoken so “what’s the point?”, I make the return point that people are still learning it, and therefore shouldn’t they receive the best possible kind of instruction? I could even make a What If question – Do we humans really know what the future of Latin is? I don’t think we do.
- http://www.latin.org/resources/documents/Latin%20is%20Not%20Different%20[Patrick%202011].pdf
- http://rlafleur.myweb.uga.edu/latn4770/miscellany/John%20Piazza’s%20journal.pdf