This morning I came across the tireless phrase "caveat emptor" (buyer beware) and it got me thinking about my years studying Latin in high school and college. What, I wondered, would be the Latin for a contemporary phrase like "email"? Well, according to the Latin version of Wikipedia (Vicipaedia), it's "cursus electronicus." SUCH an apt phrase!
In my search I also found that the ancient Roman poet Catullus figured in a sex-discrimination suit against a London hedge-fund manager, who is accused of emailing a particularly naughty snippet from one of his poems, in Latin, to a female underling. I remember translating that poem in high school and feeling secretly amazed we were allowed to do so.
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