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The programme has sparked a heated
. Many people have ridiculed it as being a "
-funded gimmick". A
wrote: "Latin is elite because only people who are guaranteed
careers, thanks to family connections, can afford to waste
on ...understanding...the dialogue in [
] books." An author said she only uses Latin to "
translate things on tombs". A teacher said
would be better spent on living languages like Chinese that would enable
"to get ahead in the world," or on computer
.
