More from the Priest: He slams the Germans.

One of the priest who teaches my Latin class's big pet peeves is people who think Latin stopped with Classical texts.

So, the other day he was talking about how they teach Latin composition in Germany, and that you get marked down for every word you use that isn't in Cicero's corpus, and that if you use more than 5 of them, they fail you straight out.

"There they go, goose-stepping through the Latin language," he was like.

He also said he used to have horrible fights with this one German student who, when asked why he did something, would say that his teacher taught him that, and then when the priest would adduce like 5 examples from Classical authors suggesting things should be done the other way, the guy would ignore them.

"They think those rule-books dropped from heaven!", he was like, "But they didn't."

Also, whenever someone asks him what he does and he says he's a Latinist, the typical response is usually something like, "But isn't Latin a dead language?", and more often than not he's like, "You're dead, Latin is alive."