Thursday, May 6, 2021

A Classical Education

Edna O’Doherty at The Dublin Review Blog.

"Regularly dropping Latin tags, or even French ones, into one’s conversation is now generally regarded as a sign of pretentiousness, but there was a time when ad hoc, inter alia or primus inter pares were common verbal tics among the half-educated..."
Sic? -ed.

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