The night before Wisconsin embarks to Kentucky... and I am in another state entirely. I am beyond excitement! I'm getting random shivers in anticipation. I can't wait to be with the other JCLers. At Nationals, we convene to celebrate not a dead language, but a "zombie" language as former WJCLer said. This analogy is perfect. We have resurrected the culture and joined the craze ourselves, integrating the past with the present. Latin is part of everyone's lives in the modern world, and it is our duty as JCLers to promote it.
I've been thinking about Harry Potter lately (but who hasn't?). Many spells in the book are Latin-based- so did the Romans develop formal magic in addition to the foundations of civilizations around the world? In the world of HP, if there wasn't methodical magic before the Romans made spells for it, then could the ancient residents of the Tyrrhenian peninsula have invented it? Or, from the opposite perspective, was Latin based off of the words of magic spells? With this "logic," we JCLers would be magical zombie people.
If anyone reading this post has any thoughts, please comment!
