*Ø* Romans catching up
"Not to be shackled while the world goes to hell in a handcart, the Vatican is making up new words to hold the line against sin.
"As the only body in the world still using Latin, the Vatican has helpfully produced a new lexicon of modern words.
"It may help resolve the problem of how to threaten damnation if you dare not speak vice's name.
"Words appearing for the first time include hotpants (brevissimae bracae femineae), nightclub (taberna nocturna) and cigarette (fistula nicotiana). Like iuvenis voluptarius (the new Latin playboy), they're unlikely to feature favourably in the next papal encyclical."
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"Not to be shackled while the world goes to hell in a handcart, the Vatican is making up new words to hold the line against sin.
"As the only body in the world still using Latin, the Vatican has helpfully produced a new lexicon of modern words.
"It may help resolve the problem of how to threaten damnation if you dare not speak vice's name.
"Words appearing for the first time include hotpants (brevissimae bracae femineae), nightclub (taberna nocturna) and cigarette (fistula nicotiana). Like iuvenis voluptarius (the new Latin playboy), they're unlikely to feature favourably in the next papal encyclical."
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