Councils ban Latin words because they are 'elitist and discriminatory' and confuse immigrants (UK)

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11-03-08 | Emily Andrews

[Renfield]

Classics scholars have accused councils of 'ethnic cleansing' after they banned staff from using Latin words.

The local authorities claim the terms are elitist and discriminatory, and have ordered employees to use often-wordier alternatives in documents or when speaking to the public.

Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas - beauty and health - has listed 19 terms it no longer considers acceptable for use......

[SumProVita]

More ‘dumbing down’ by REAL dummies.

[Tennessee Nana]

Blackstone is rolling over in his grave...

[Tax-chick]

'At the same time it is important to remember that the national literacy level is about 12 years old and the vast majority of people hardly ever use these terms. It is far better to use words people understand.'

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

ENGLISH will be next.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

[IYAS9YAS]

Double plus good.

[ken21]

arabic script discriminates too.

/s

[Constitution Day]

Quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?

[Tax-chick]

Quite.

[In veno, veritas]

Better dust off my copy of Beowulf to get back to old English. But considering that it is really a kind of German (Saxon), influenced by the Vikings, Latin (Rome did conquer England), and Gaelic, maybe I should just go back to pre-English Welsh or Manx.

[wally-balls]

Obama ban Latin

[posterchild]

Hopefully a few attorneys will step up to work pro bono to fight this.

[wac3rd]

But Arabic would be a fine choice, eh?

More “diverse”.

Morons.

[Larry Lucido]

There must be a quid pro quo here somewhere.

[Larry Lucido]

Al Gore weighed in with “e unum, pluribus.”

[BenLurkin]

'The great strength of English is that it has a massive infusion of Latin.

'We have a very rich lexicon with almost two sets of words for everything. To try to wipe out the richness does a great disservice to the language. It demeans it.

'I am all for immigrants raising their sights not lowering them. Plain English and Latin phrasing are not diametrically opposed concepts.'

[BenLurkin]

[IYAS9YAS]

Holy smokes, they want to ban this? The only phrase I wasn't familiar with, but could have deciphered, was "nota bene."

Somewhat off subject; has anyone here used Rosetta Stone for language learning? I was looking at it because I wanted to learn Latin and wanted to pick up Japanese for the wife and kiddies.

Even further off subject; just watched the Life of Brian over the weekend. The exchange between the Roman guard and Brian over "Romans go home!" was brilliant.

[martin_fierro]

LOLvs

[Cvengr]

Councils ban Latin words?

How De Novo!