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Wild John Burnside Today, on our journey home, we saw a buzzard making a kill on the roadside verge. It glided across our windscreen and hunkered down on something – we couldn’t see what it was – as the wings folded around what Lucas called ‘the prey’. He wanted to know if buzzards took children, or cats; then, as we slowed to look, he chose to admire the plumage and the fierce light of its eye.

Today,
on our journey home,
we saw

a buzzard
making a kill
on the roadside verge…

—John Burnside, “Wild”
Published in THE THING THAT MATTERED MOST: Scottish poems for children, @byleaveswelive.bsky.social / B&W 2006
#WorldWildlifeDay #poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wild/

Le programme d’Antiquité grecque et romaine encore suspendu C’est la deuxième fois en moins de quatre mois que l’Université d’Ottawa décide de suspendre le programme d’Antiquité grecque et romaine offert en français.

Antiquité grecque et romaine : Dominique Côté a confirmé avec le vice-recteur à la francophonie que le programme « était désigné [en vertu] de cette loi ontarienne » (LSF).
L'Université cite un «avis juridique» pour passer outre.

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#SOSÉtudesAnciennesUO #ONfr #DroitsLinguistiques

Lingua latina POKEMON illustrata ! Mirificas gratias :)

l'UOttawa doit honorer ses engagements et rétablir ce programme dont la suspension nuira de manière disproportionnée aux possibilités d'éducation en langue française.

#SOSClassicsUO
#SOSÉtudesAnciennesUO
@uottawa.ca

ALERTE : droits linguistiques menacés à l'UOttawa. Ce programme qui maintient son niveau d'excellence et qui est officiellement désigné en vertu de la Loi sur les services en français a été re-suspendu.

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@uottawa.ca

Nationality: Douglas !!!

Summa iniuria, Hamish STATIM pascendus est.

The Last Man to Speak Ubykh John Burnside The linguist Ole Stig Andersen was keen to seek out the remaining traces of a West Caucasian language called Ubykh. Having heard that there was one remaining speaker he set out to find the man and arrived in his village on 8 October 1992. The man had died a few hours earlier. At times, in those last few months, he would think of a word and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog, the sound denoted: the tree itself, or the frog, or the state of mind and not the equivalent word in another language, the speech that had taken his sons and the mountain light; the graves he swept and raked; the wedding songs. While years of silence gathered in the heat, he stood in his yard and whispered the name of a bird in his mother tongue, while memories of snow and market days, his father’s hands, the smell of tamarind, inklings of milk and blood on a sunlit floor receded in the names no longer used: the blue of childhood folded like a sheet and tucked away. Nothing he said was remembered; nothing he did was fact or legend in the village square, yet later they would memorise the word he spoke that morning, just before he died: the word for death, perhaps, or meadow grass, or swimming to the surface of his mind, that other word they used, when he was young, for all they knew that nobody remembered.

At times, in those last few months,
he would think of a word
and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog,

the sound denoted…

—John Burnside, “The Last Man to Speak Ubykh“
published in the @lrb.co.uk, August 2002
#poem #poetry #MotherLanguageDay
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Latin verse of the day:

cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator
(Juvenal, Satire 10.22)

"a traveler who is empty-handed can sing in the mugger's face."

Pour les millions de travailleurs qui tiennent le pays debout, contre une France d’en haut qui se gave, rejoignez la campagne de @francois_ruffin ! Objectif 100000 soutiens sur nouspresident.fr ! #NousPresident

Ciceras (modice) bibere et aequo animo prodest et cantus nauticos jucundiores facit :)

Rogatum stultissimum, Hamish longe praestat.

Carmen pulchrum, judicium doctum.

Et optimum consilium : noli timere.

Salvae salvique sitis omnes !

Solitudo ad homines necandos valet ; cura ut saluteas aliquem benigne hodie (et cotidie).

Signe pour suspendre l’accord UE-Mercosur ! On a jusqu’au mercredi 21 janvier pour suspendre l’accord UE-Mercosur : faisons pression sur le Parlement européen !...

Si foedus Mercosur vel reprimere vel retardare vis, nunc occasio est et tempus.

Nomen da hic si velis 👇

filum jucundissimum :)

Data quae legentem tenent et oculos capiunt, ut mos apud Lukam est - gratias tibi ago quid hoc et cetera fecisti :)

Quam calamitatem, praesertim ut nunc tempestas perfrigida est. Spero rem bene eventura.

MMXXVI nobis pacem, tranquillitatem, concordiam afferat ! Precata sum ut tua consilia fauste feliciterque evenirent :)

Vobis quoque ! Macte virtute estote :)

Apud Ovidium, in Metamorphoseon libris. Loci obliviscor, narratur autem de corvo qui puellam Apollinis adulterii defert, Apollo nihilominus ambos punit, amicam delatoremque.

In fabulis, corvus, quondam pennis tam niveus ut aequeret columbas, garrulitatis perfidiaeque has poenas dedit : nigruit et inter aves albas consistere vetitus est. Damnum potius inefficax, quoniam corvi nunc fortes, callidi, creberrimi sunt.

Latine "graculus" quoniam "gra gra" dicit.

adagium est (ut anglice) : semper graculus cum graculo (birds of a feather ...)

passer indefessus qui caudam assidue motitat. duplex inde eius fama : in fabulis aut navus et industrius est, aut mente agitationem, inexplebilem stomachum denuntit.

En, instrumentum qui profert facetias more patre - explorate gemetis :)

Recte dixit Thomas, ut ei mos est.

A Beginner's Guide to Medieval Latin Nine texts to get you started...

Babae ! Hic consilii auctoritatisque affatim est. Bene lege, bene utere :)

Hic in Francogallia adductae per commercium et pesticidarum usum in magnum periculum, horrible dictu.

Eorum pulcherrimae pennae magni aestimabantur ab quibus informes petasos emunt - tanto melius non iam more fit.

in pellicula "Watership Down" Kehaar est croicocephalus ridibundus. Puella, propter eum expavi :)