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Latin was stale. It smelled of stagnant scholasticism and musty classrooms, of esoteric and ambiguous knowledge. “We have difficulty agreeing on the significance of Latin words,” said the Edict of Villers-Cotterets. A murky language for a murky city.
But is elimination sufficient? Or must one purify and polish the diamond, “root for pearls even amidst the manure of Ennius"

According to Freud, the decline of the olfactory sense was an inevitable outgrowth of the civilizing process, set in motion when man adopted an erect posture.