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Show SHOULD WE SPEAK ENGLISH A Dissertation Which Shows Conclusively Tint We Undoubtedly Should. A CHANCE FOR BOYS . AND CIRL5. Mcketw' "Martin CBmzatewtt" Offered for the First Correct Translation of the Article Following. The use of the dead languages, by certain rlasscs in the United States, in the transaction transac-tion of -every dr.y business has prompted the writer to pencil tbc following, A prize of Dickon's -'Martin Chuzzlowit'' wiTl be given the hoy or girl under !." years who will first translate the article itito Knglish as origi-nally origi-nally written. Ali replies must be accompanied accom-panied by this printed article which must, be cut out and mailed with the solution. "Ab intinito of the year the writer has had an idea lurking in his brain to-wit: The penriiing of nn article which should be cias-ic cias-ic in it m ake-up. ' This idiosyncrasy is not the result of Amor pro pre or of a desire Ad CaptHiidisin valgus; neither can it be classified class-ified as Cacoetfeea scribeadi or a morbid craving to be considered Distingue. Perhaps Divertissement is the Desideratum Lir Dulee. .-t deslpere in locA and limn spiro, spero that my fellow may enjoy himself annuo, Ex usu of my Facetiae if such they may be designated. "Hoiii soit qui mat y peuso" is a motto BateienX in ite character. Esto perpetaa, because, be-cause, forsooth, I know there are those who mlU classify this as debris and will say, after readine- t'ui Ronn; The above question is Argumcntum ad ignoratitia. because I am striving to place Argumcntum ad hominum before the public. pub-lic. That is. I intend to convey without Argumcntum Ar-gumcntum oaculinun; that Aura popularis is in the direction of a continued use of the dead languages, which I do not regard, as the French express it, as Conune il fait. We ' have orani nobis, a condition which we Should discuss as a Conseil cP etat. True Consuetudo pro lege servator and attorneys ar.d physicians as w ell as other professional men have kept up the practice, but in an English speaking country, where the language lan-guage is so exnrcssive,it should be regarded as Contra t.onos mores if not an offense Sub poena. Thai the practice is a useless oue can be observed D die in diem for the reason above stated. Deo gratia is suiUcicnt aud Facile princepa. Hie et ubioue is this assertion recognized with but few exceptions. As an argument in favor of the practice sotue quote Lex mm scripts or J its cauonictrm; others plead by declaring, the physicians generally, that it is Jus humano they prevent impleasaut results. Me judice there is Nihil ad rem in this kind of argument. English being Nulli secumlus I contend that the use of defunct languages is not Pro Bono Publico. Nota Bene, if Open-c pre ti urn est to use either the Greek . or the Latin except Fro re Data, Pro tempore. Of course the custom is not a sine qua non by any meaus and should be Sub judice at once. Spero mcliora when through L'sis loquendi; this Vexata (juiestio shall have been di.-poseel of. Exempli gratia let the matter be discussed pro aud con Ad extrcmum, Adlincm, A' discretion. dis-cretion. Ad lite ram. If when the debate is concluded the decision is not on my side the monitors may bo considered Non compos mentis and the case regarded as being' be-ing' Coram non judice. Duh e et desipere in loco as T remarked before en rapport with this discussiou, but in this I am wholly in earnest. Errare est humanum and En veriti. I may err in the j uosition I assume. Et hoc genus on me. But Ex alamo do I believe that I am In loco of a benefactor to the people of my country. In re the use of ((notations from unknown tongues as applied to our everyday business matters, in Rerum natura not In situ and is reprclicuiblc in toto. Who will differ? C. M. Jacksox. |