He didn't actually say it: someone joked at a dinner or fundraiser that Dan
Quayle had felt guilty that he hadn't studied his Latin upon his visit to
Latin America, and the press picked it up as though it were a true report of
Quayle's own words.
What it says of the man that millions of people believed him capable of
saying it, I leave others to decide. I suspect that he was nominated
because he reminded GHWB of someone.
Patrick Rourke
ptrourke@mediaone.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"
> Wasn't it Dan Quayle who said they speak Latin in Latin America?
>
>
> jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
> >
> > > > > 1. When I learned Latin in the U.S. in the 1960s, we were taught a
> > > > > reconstructed Roman pronunciation.
> > >
> > > Latin is still spoken in Rome, at the Vatican.
> > >
> > > So there is a Roman pronunciation even today... (;
> > >
> > > Just kidding... although what I say is true...
> > >
> > > Alain
> >
> > How about a weekly radio news broadcast in Latin?
> >
> > http://www.yle.fi/ylenykko/nuntii.html (in Finnish :-)
> > http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/ (in Latin)
> > http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/summary.html (in English)
>
> --
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