Showing posts with label Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speech. Show all posts

Monday, September 13, 2010

My Personal English Renaissance

The fuel that fired the Renaissance was the rediscovery of ancient text long forgotten to Western Civilization. As scholars began reading the original Roman texts in Latin, they realized that the Latin of their common usage (both spoken and written) was flawed. Or, as in the words of Professor Burton, they said, "Oh man, were using really bad Latin!"


I thought it would be interesting to share an experience I had over the Summer almost analogous to this: