Think of what we got from Latin.  Ferarris!  Pizza!  No, that's not correct. Latino pro populo, or vulgate, is what some say, but in fact it was the written form.  The formal latin.  Nobody on earth knows how it really sounded!  Well, Rome still influences us today.  Much of our culture came from the Latin culture founded by Romulus and Remus.
    Uncle Remus?  No, that's not correct.  (Politically, anyhow.) Do you see how important our cherce (old Brooklyn) of woids can be?  (Now, why is Brooklyn spelled "lyn" instead of "lin"?  It's the Welsh, isn't it?)  (And, why should that next to last question mark have been inside the quotes?)   Why, we ask, without any notice, have elementary and secondary schools dropped Latin studies?  Why are the idiots in Oakland pushing Ebonics!  Ebonics, for God's sake! Haven't those idiots seen Shaw's Pygmalion?
    Marva Collins knows better, to the great good fortune of some of Chicago's children.  Ten years from now, Oakland kids will be washing Marva's Kids' Rolls Royces.
    Latin is one of our Proto-Indo-European language roots.
    We will now test your depth in this department.
    If you get them all, you are a superb person
    If you get but half, you are okay.
    If you get fewer than six, you will be whipped.

1.  Pro
        a:  for
        b:  urban teacher
          c:  paid athlete

2.  Amore
        a:  (the) love
        b:  (an) ethical principle
        c:  (I want) extra

3.  Verborum
        a:  (of) words
        b:  a talkative drunk
        c:  action words are uninteresting

4.  Non
        a:  not, no
        b:  female member of a Catholic order
        c:  a kind of entity

5.  Est
        a:  is
        b:  the opposite of west
        c:  to win without losing a point

6.  Sunt
        a:  (they) are
        b:  (we) is
        c:  (they) be

7.  Mundis
        a:  world
        b:  the first working day of the week
        c:  what Scots do to their enemies before they hack their heads off

8.  Bellum
        a:  war
        b:  a bag of hot air
        c:  what one does with multitudinous stalks of straw

9.  Ager (Agri)
        a:  field
        b:  to irritate
        c:  (type of) person (suffix, as in "teenager")

10.  Cancer
        a:  a crab
        b:  to annul
        c:  (to a superior) promise to accomplish

11.  Socer
        a:  father-in-law
        b:  foot covering
        c:  a field game

12.  Filius
        a:  son
        b:  a young female horse
        c:  a big meal

13.  Nauta
        a:  a sailor
        b:  a kind of chance
        c:  where a limb meets a tree trunk

14.  Et
        a:  and
        b:  the number between seven and nine
        c:  to consume food (past tense)

15.  Taeter
        a:  foul, smelly
        b:  a South American tuber
        c:  a leader (suffix: as in dic - taeter)

16.  Locus
        a:  place
        b:  an insect
        c:  observe (my group)

17.  Sed
        a:  but
        b:  to speak (past tense)
        c:  (it is) Edward

18.  Nox
        a:  night
        b:  difficult life experiences
        c:  tapping on an entry door

19.  Pons
        a:  a bridge
        b:  small bodies of water
        c:  what a burglar does with stolen jewelry

20.  Mare
        a:  a sea
        b:  an adult female horse
        c:  the leading city political official
 
 

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