To add to this, I also learned Latin when I was young, not only to speak it, but to understand it. Then 3 years of Spanish, and a little French. My sister-in-law teaches English at both high school and college level. We have a bit of fun with each other, for instance I threw this at her once in a family reunion. (Did you know that a bifurcation of a parenthetical expression is an oxymoron?)
She hesitated before acknowledging that this is a truth statement. |