Perhaps you've come across Henry Beard's amusing Latin phrase books, Latin for All Occasions and Latin for Even More Occasions. Well! Mr Beard has been at it again, and now he's written X-Treme Latin: Unleash Your Inner Gladiator. Here's an article from economist.co.uk about that latest book:
Posted on March 11, 2004 07:06 PM. Filed under: language.For years now, Henry Beard, the founder of National Lampoon, has been pursuing a rollicking crusade to put Latin back in everyday life. As he explains, Latin is widely used by lawyers to cheat you, by doctors to scare you witless and by houseplant sellers to shift their wares. (See, under "Botanical Latin", grandiflora, tormentosa, pendula, rugosa and sempervirens, all of which mean "leafless clump of dry brown twigs in one week flat".) This book lets the homunculus (little guy) get his own back. [continue]