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Translata Splendida: Pop Culture in the Way of the Ancients

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A personal site translating pop-culture works—including Star Wars—into Latin and exploring related ancient and reconstructed languages.

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Translata Splendida turns fan translation into a small linguistic laboratory: its author is working through Star Wars in Latin, considering Proto-Italic and Proto-Germanic, and even building a Proto-Germanic-to-Latin dictionary. The project openly admits that finishing the trilogy may be a long shot, which only makes the endeavor more charming.

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