French, blah! Often lyrical but too pretentious overall. Spanish, well... this gringo couldn't be bothered to learn it despite taking it several times in college. I always thought that if I was to learn a new language it should be Latin. Although it sounds ridiculous it intones official business as if the person speaking it were in a secret cabal of sorts. Hell, they usually are, too. But I didn't and so here we are.
NON OMNIS MORIAR
nohn AWM-nihs MAW-ree-ahr
I shall not wholly die
This was Horace's way, in the
Odes, of telling the world that his works would live forever. Not a bad call.
Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others by Eugene Ehrlich
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