Thursday, September 25, 2003

Would you, could you, in Latin?

Green Eggs and Ham, the Dr. Seuss classic, has now been translated into Latin, under the title Virent Ova! Viret Perna!! Rather than literally translating the classic, Latin scholars Jennifer and Terence Tunberg rewrote the book in the style (ad modum?) that Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) might have if he were fluent in neo-Latin. Sounds cool, if a bit kooky -- who would buy such a book? The target audience is Seuss fans (are we not legion?) "who took Latin in school and have a fond remembrance of it," according to the publisher. Two previous Seuss-into-Latin translations, of The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, have sold a combined 60,000 copies. De gustibus non est disputandum.

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