cum cum et cum

Latin: I can still bang out the five declensions and the four conjugations in my sleep. Trying to read a text, the sentence structure always finds ways to trip me up.

Greek: very patchy, I know a lot of words but my grammar is shite

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.

No human society in any climate has ever been nocturnal: https://web.archive.org/web/20030318032208/http://condor.depaul.edu/~mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

It’s one of the World’s Great Civilizations, rather than just a country like Ireland is, it’s got more historical importance and influence.

I don’t buy the heat thing.

A) India has all sorts of temperatures, B) they play kabaddi