Click for examples. We got Eugene Ehrlich's books and after reading them we gained insight into a past culture and, by extension into present day culture because, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." In fact you could probably find a latin expression for that little cliche as well. We started thinking that these Latin phrases would have an especially profound impact if they could be presented in photo-realistic 3D computer art. Xara 3D can do that very well. It has a very intuitive interface in which you can change anything around in real time. It's so quick and easy a (trained) gorilla could do it. Many people send emails but, most are blissfully unaware that you can drag and drop images into an email. That is really amazing. So many think themselves so computer hip and stiil don't know how easy it is to drag and droplittle images into emails. Go figure. Only a clown would send an email with an image as an attachment. Eugene Erhrlich is a polyglot, bibliophilic lexicographer, just like you yourself. He has published several books on words and phrases in english and other languages as well, including latin. Even old Bill Buckley got a kick out of his book, "Amo, Amas, Amat". Anyway, get all of Eugene Ehrlich's books and get Xara 3D, be creative and make hundreds of latin words and phrases in all shapes and styles. Give your mind some brainfood and really jazz up your emailing, or your web pages. Our efforts may seem quixotic crusading never the less we would like a resurgence of the use of conversational Latin in general society. Mr Buckley wrote in his introduction for Mr. Ehrlich's, Amo, Amas, Amat and More: "The other day, sitting alongside a Jesuit college president, I mentioned, by way of indicating the distinctive training of English Jesuits, that my schoolmasters at Beaumont College, when engaged in faculty discussions, addressed each other in Latin. He replied matter-of-factly that so it had been with him and his classmates. 'But now, after fifteen years, I would have a problem with relatively simple Latin.' No doubt about it, the generations of Catholic priests trained in Latin, and the seepage of Latin to parishioners, students, altar boys, wiil diminish, drying up the spring which for so many centuries watered the general knowledge of Latin, and held out almost exclusively, after the virtual desertion of Latin from curricula in which it held, in e.g., English schools, an absolutely patriarchal position. But it is not likely that the remaining bits and pieces will all be extirpated by the vernacular juggernaut. And even if that were so, it would happen generations down the line. Meanwhile I know of no book to contend in usefullness with that of Mr. Ehrlich, who has given us this resourceful, voluminous, and appetizing smorgasbord." Click image for animated form. Latin Logo examples. A buddyette, VeeJay, from around Washington, D.C. sent in this Xara 3D rendered logo which means in Latin, "Always wear underwear."
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