Can it be that the Democrats wish to associate their slightly wooden candidate with a dead language?

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Typically, Pope Benedict even chose to announce his surprise resignation in a series of sentences in Latin - a dead language.

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It's a dead language, like Latin.

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But when I got home, I opened up the remote and saw all those sturdy diodes, capacitors, and transistors with their mysterious colored bands, combinations of which once spoke a subtle language to engineers long ago retired or dead.

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The picture of the dead teenager was first published by Anandabazar Patrika, a leading Bangla-language newspaper in Kolkata.

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The written evidence is thin to non-existent, and the import of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the few sources for the period that is mainly in a Semitic language, is hotly contested.

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