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[rm]

About 80% of what I know about how to speak and write in a manner that is stirring and/or convincing, I learned from Latin.

Which is why this is so ridiculously rad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html

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[contrarywise]

*snerk* That's awesome! And I agree, fine rhetorical material from ancient Greece and Rome still provides good examples for those of us who would speak or write persuasively and well.