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From: Elias J Theodoracopoulos <ejt1@columbia.edu>
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Barbara Landis quoted W.S. Merwin's  LEARNING A DEAD L=
ANGUAGE
[...]=20
> What you are given to remember
> Has been saved before you from death=92s dullness by
> Remembering. The unique intention
> Of a language whose speech has died is order
> Incomplete only where someone has forgotten.
> You will find that order helps you to remember.

Trouble is, the speech of neither Greek nor Latin ever died. Learning
these tongues has never been exclusively an act of remembering only.      =
=20

--Elias J. Theodoracopoulos

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