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  • New Latin dictionary has translations for hot pants and punk!:

    09/22/2004 8:25:36 AM PDT · by Area Freeper · 10 replies · 573+ views
    ANI ^ | Sept 22
    London, Sept 22 : The Vatican has come out with a new dictionary of modern words in Latin, which includes translations for words like hot pants, punk and Lambrusco wine. The book produced by the Latinitas Foundation, an academic institution founded in 1976 by Pope Paul VI with the intention of preserving and evolving the Latin language, will update vocabulary for theologians, thus helping them in writing in Latin about current issues. In the dictionary, hotpants appears as brevissimae bracae femineae, punk as punkianae catervae assecla, and Lambrusco wine as acre vinum Aemilianum. There is also an Italian emphasis on...