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Carpe Diem: Put A Little Latin in Your Life (2006)

par Harry Mount

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Language Arts. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos. Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and Leaves such a monster hit. Whether we're aware of it or not, Latin is all around us. Consider the sayings in everyday use: alter ego, ad nauseam, caveat emptor, modus operandi, per se, and, of course, the ever-popular e pluribus unum. Even more abundant are words derived from Latin roots: arena (from harena, meaning �??sand�?�), auditorium ("a place of audience"), stadium (a running track)...and those are just the theatrical ones! It's inescapable. It's also the most daunting of languages, one that is seemingly obscure and filled with arcane rules and often accompanied by unpleasant memories of adolescence. But, as Mount says in Carpe Diem, "Knowing a bit of Latin is an invitation to the biggest room in the building, with a view down the corridor to all the succeeding ages. And you can get your hands on that invitation at any age.… (plus d'informations)

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I had to break off listening. It tries so hard to be contemporary and light-weight, slips in a stupid joke or two. Neil Postman could have used it as an example of modern day instruction in his "Amusing Ourselves to Death".

themulhern | Jul 20, 2022 |

Neat little pocket guide to Roman culture and the Latin language (

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RavinScarface | Dec 13, 2020 |

Ok, I admit I didn't study this primer properly" (his word). ?�Instead I took the title literally, and skimmed the parts that turned out to be like a textbook. ?Ã¡Unfortunately I do not have the foundation for this: I have never succeeded in learning any foreign language, and know only the most common Latin phrases and history. ?Ã¡This enriched that knowledge, but to actually learn Latin I would need an audio component, exercises, and a guide - all of which are missing here.

The best bits of this, imo, are the vocabulary list, and the list of literary devices, near the end. ?Ã¡The worst aspect is the constant advice to 'say' a passage - with no clue of phonetics given.

It is kinda sorta interesting sometimes. ?Ã¡If you can get an audio version (?) from your public library, listen to it in the background of chores, and pause & replay the bits that interest you." (

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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |

If you come into this book thinking you'll walk away with an accelerated sense of Latin, you'll be sorely disappointed. Mount spends a significant amount of time discussing the declension of words, without ever explaining (unless I managed to miss it) what that means or why the reader should be inspired to care. The book jumps from topic to topic in an obvious attempt to avoid boredom, but the end result is a disorganized book that doesn't help make its case that anyone can become a classics expert.

This, of course, isn't really a fair assessment. The idea that one can walk away from this skinny volume and say, "Veni, vidi, vici," is ridiculous. I can only blame NPR for setting my expectations to an absurdly high level. It's not a bad book, by any stretch of the imagination. Some of the trivia and digressions in the book can be rather interesting, and the book might serve well as a handy reference volume or refresher course for someone who already knows what they're doing. For my purposes, however, it was less than successful. (

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jawalter | Nov 18, 2012 |

Now this book was full of cupiditas. Its goal is to serve as a primer for the noobs, as well as serve as a review for the dwindling number of grown-up school children who had studied Latin. It's full of corny anecdotes and examples as well has some expected, mind-numbing grammar. The lazy (like me) can skip the various figures of speech and simply enjoy all the clever examples of Latin words/phrases still in use today. Well worth a future re-reading. (

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Language Arts. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos. Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and Leaves such a monster hit.

Whether we're aware of it or not, Latin is all around us. Consider the sayings in everyday use: alter ego, ad nauseam, caveat emptor, modus operandi, per se, and, of course, the ever-popular e pluribus unum. Even more abundant are words derived from Latin roots: arena (from harena, meaning �??sand�?�), auditorium ("a place of audience"), stadium (a running track)...and those are just the theatrical ones! It's inescapable. It's also the most daunting of languages, one that is seemingly obscure and filled with arcane rules and often accompanied by unpleasant memories of adolescence. But, as Mount says in Carpe Diem, "Knowing a bit of Latin is an invitation to the biggest room in the building, with a view down the corridor to all the succeeding ages. And you can get your hands on that invitation at any age.