Can Harry Potter wave his magic wand and revive a dead language?

哈里·波特的魔杖能让已死的语言起死回生吗？

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Even a dead language can prompt lively debate, as Matthew W. Stolper, a Chicago professor long involved in the project, once wrote.

一个长期从事于此项目的芝加哥大学教授Matthew W. Stolper写到：“即使是现在没有人使用的语言一样可以引发争论”。

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I felt sorry as hell for them. All morning plugging away on John Gilpin's Ride, and in the afternoon coming to me to practise a dead language.

我真替他们难过，整个上午苦苦地念《约翰·吉尔平的旅行》，到了下午又上我这儿来练习一种死去的语言。

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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.

BBC: Decoding the Papacy: Benedict XVI's cryptic frustration

It's a dead language, like Latin.

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