So there I was having a conversation with my mother about Latin names for stuff. When it dawned on me. No wonder Latin died out as a spoken language. It stands to reason. My mother and I had just had one of our confused conversations where we talk at cross purposes without actually being aware of it until the end. Today it was all because of Latin.

At the end of this blog I also intend to prove that the 3 little pigs of nursery rhyme fame died as a result of being poor latin scholars. All except the third one. Who we know was in fact a builder and not a scholar.

The reason Latin died out was that it failed to differentiate properly andphonetically objects of extreme danger from words pertaining to the soft fluffy creatures of the forest.

How many fairy tales have at their core a big bad wolf? Red riding hood, the boy who cried wolf and of course our three little pigs.

Now the Latin for Wolof is Canis Lupus - as my mother so rightly pointed out. I was convinced it was Latin for Rabbit. You see why I was never allowed into the woods on my own. It turns out the Latin for Hare is Lepus (e.g. Lepus Arcticus - arctic hare. Now all those tales take on a diffierent bent if you transpose big bad wolf to lanky irritated hare. One slip of a letter and all of a sudden Peter is off to hunt an angry rabbit. Bet he wouldn't have gone into the forest if he had done his schooling better. Lepus or Lupus. The poor boy who cried wolf was probably shouting at the hares but the wording got lost on those alpine hillsides and when he really saw the wolf or Lupus the villagers just misheard him.

As for those three little piggies obviously the first two had been singing "Who's afraid of the big bad rabbit?" a house of sticks would have been pretty safe aginst even the wheeziest of bunnies.

And so ther you have it. Too much death and destuction had been caused becuse latin couldn't safely tell it's bad guys apart, hence it died out as a language due to shepherds getting fed up!

I thank you and good night!