The
other week I had a Latin lesson w/my one very good Latin student, and I printed out
some recent tweets of Pope Francis so we could kick off the lesson by
sightreading a few of them.
One of
the most recent ones was something like –
Ostium tui cordis pulsat
dominus. Suspendistine de bulla titulum
“Nolo turbari”?
(The Lord is knocking on the door
of your heart. Have you hung a sign from
the doorknob, “I don’t want to be disturbed”?)
- and
since I always make fun of the classist and perhaps even corrupt president of
our university during lessons, I was like, “And do you know what President [- -
-] would say to that?”
“‘Yes’?”,
my one good Latin was like.
“No!”, I
was like, “He would say, ‘Of course I haven’t, I had someone do it for me’!”.
And then
my one good Latin student impersonated the president and was like, “‘And I made them take the stairs.’”
. . .
For our
next class, I’m having him revise the university’s (Latin) motto into 2-3
parody versions reflecting the current president’s values.
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