One for the scholars!!

[Nick Beale]

I have it on very good authority of multiple Classicists that one cannot usually translate Latin into English without losing some of the original sense and logic of the text, more so than with translation from modern European languages.

(Heading blithely off-topic …) But how can they tell that if, fundamentally, they are thinking in English — interesting problem of logic there!

Good knowledge of Latin phrases is one sign of superior learning

Sorry but I just see it as evidence of knowing something, there is no rational basis for privileging this particular corner of knowledge above (say) materials science, plant biology, or indeed aerial warfare 1939–45.