Re: Boris Johnson & Iliad
Michael Smith <[email protected]>
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The Brits have always done that. Speak every language as if it were English. Some amusing survivals of Brit Latin are to be found in the thieves' argot of lawyers. 'A fortiori', for example, sounds like "Ah, fer sure-ee." On 7/28/19 8:07 AM, Andrew Calimach wrote: > Add to his many lapses that of speaking Homeric Greek with a British accent. > > Andrew Calimach > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Findependent.academia.edu%2FAndrewCalimach&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C7df4c440a5a84ebe403f08d7137e4100%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636999305292359889&sdata=V0fXt4DTLqzfWAThI48fuy96nB3VFC7l68KjAwZPvmk%3D&reserved=0 > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:54 AM Greg Kindall <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Boris Johnson at the Melbourne Writers Festival has occasion to recite a >> good chunk of Homer: >> >> >> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2019-07-25%2Fboris-johnson-recites-extracts-of-the-iliad-in%2F11338290%3Fpfmredir%3Dsm&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C7df4c440a5a84ebe403f08d7137e4100%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636999305292369887&sdata=ImyPBTlfUfWDGFpK6XuQ5DfYpijIEkQ099gYnm0S9vA%3D&reserved=0 >>