Interpreting | 2008.05.06
John Walsh: Tales of the City
The teaching of Latin has changed a bit since my chums and I in the fourth form used to change the title page of Kennedy\'s Latin Primer to Kennedy\'s Eating Prime Beef, and invent dog-Latin formulations like "Caesar ad sum iam forte" (you have to say it aloud). In exams, we were given unseen translations from Virgil or Ovid into English – that basic, if seldom simple, process of representing one civilisation in the language of another, which was once seen as fundamental to any truly cultured education.
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