[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.

[ken21]

arabic script discriminates too.

/s

[Constitution Day]

Quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?

[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.'

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Renfield.

Town halls ban staff from using Latin words, in case they confuse immigrants[UK]
Daily Mail | 02 Nov 2008 | Emily Andrews
Posted on 11/02/2008 9:01:53 AM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122613/posts

Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive’
BBC | 23 January 2008 | Sean Coughlan
Posted on 01/23/2008 7:26:29 AM PST by forkinsocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958215/posts

Government bans the word ‘obese’ to describe overweight children
Times Online
Posted on 08/04/2008 1:13:20 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2056397/posts

Churchill dropped from England’s history syllabus (”pandering to a P.C. agenda”)
ABC News (Australia), The Sun (U.K.) | July 13, 2007
Posted on 07/12/2007 11:42:03 PM PDT by Stoat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865231/posts

Bats about the Attic: Fewer Greek students, but still plenty of devoted ones
The Economist | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | unattributed op-ed
Posted on 06/26/2008 10:49:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037137/posts

School nativity plays under threat [UK]
Telegraph | 03 Dec 2007 | Julie Henry and Vikki Miller
Posted on 12/03/2007 12:49:19 PM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934111/posts

Fundamentalist education raises eyebrows in Britain
(U.K. Gov’t sponsors Christian schools...)
Financial Times | 1 Aug 2005 | Frederick Studemann
Posted on 08/02/2005 4:46:44 AM PDT by gobucks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455237/posts