It's All Latin to Facebook
Who says Latin is a dead language? Certainly not Facebook: The social-networking service added Latin to its list of more than 70 languages, along with Azeri, Faroese, Georgian and Nepali, CNET reported.
The addition of the five new tongues comes on the heels of Facebook’s announcement earlier this week that it would make its translation tools available for users of Facebook Connect.
Facebook communications-team associate Elizabeth Linder wrote on the Facebook blog:
Most of the time when we stumble upon a Latin phrase, it’s etched in stone: carved in the hallways of universities, chiseled on facades of government buildings or carefully imprinted in cathedral foyers and churchyards.
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