in the Hellenistic age, savage warfare— no, that’s not it
Bill Poser at Language Log agrees with me: Greek, not Latin, ought to have been spoken in The Passion. (Cited by Prentiss Riddle in a comment at languagehat.)
One often hears mention of “the greater Boston area”. So how come you never hear of “the lesser Boston area”?
In unrelated news, I misread the headline “Satire is dead” as “[William] Safire is dead” and wondered why Charlie would know or care.
At a Thai restaurant just now, the staff were playing Scrabble. That’s one way to practice a language!
I bought a DVD of Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru, inferring from the presence of English text on the package that the show would be subtitled. Oops!
Larry Trask, a well of linguistic erudition and good humor, has died.