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Old 23-Oct-2003, 12:55
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dead languages, like Greek.
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Greek is a dead language? What language do the Greeks speak?

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I someone who speaks no Latin and less Greek, I'm very grateful for that.
Oh, I don't speak either of the two myself. Took a bit in uni, though. The bit above, I looked it up in the "Dictionary of Current English (1998)", which come to think of it, isn't all that current now, is it?

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It's probably not that out of date.
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