5. Latin Lives!
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Every week since September 1989, a radio station in Finland has broadcast a weekly news bulletin…in Latin.
WHY?
Let’s find out!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the allusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, poke language with a stick to see if it's still moving. |
| 0:12.0 | To warmer, here's some word history. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're taking a look at panic. |
| 0:16.0 | A word we've had in English for about 400 years having nabbed it from the French, |
| 0:20.0 | but it came from the ancient Greek panic on, meaning pertaining to the deity Pan, |
| 0:24.0 | the half-man half-goat god of fields, woods and theatrical criticism. |
| 0:29.0 | Like a lot of Greek gods, Pan seems to have been a real jerk. |
| 0:32.0 | He was awful to women, who was responsible for the pan pipes, |
| 0:36.0 | and he was fond of playing pranks, such as making loud noises to scare herds of cattle and even armies. |
| 0:42.0 | So Pan became known as the source of mysterious sounds that caused people and animals inexplicable, |
| 0:48.0 | but contagious fear, i.e. panic. |
| 0:51.0 | On with the show. |
| 0:53.0 | Every week, since September, 1989, a radio station in Finland has broadcast a news bulletin in Latin. |
| 1:04.0 | Bread in Latin |
| 1:05.0 | The mainstream media on New Super air's вінicas Gengeralis which was still intelligent |
| 1:09.0 | and very dangerous, were called Cro масwoman. |
| 1:12.0 | With nearly 100 male came closer to Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France, and GA. |
| 1:19.0 | Nunti Latini, that's Latin for News in Latin, goes out every Friday evening just before |
| 1:25.5 | the main news, and it is the world's only news bulletin in Classical Latin. |
| 1:30.8 | And it's now the finished broadcasting company's longest running show. |
| 1:34.2 | What began kind of as an experiment caught on around the world and remains very popular |
| 1:38.1 | amongst Latin enthusiasts, particularly students and priests. |
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