Jan 29, 2011

Latin and Economics

so....

I didn't post anything about Rome.  Instead I wrote long journals and emailed them to friends/family.

Anyways, there's this Latin phrase that showed up in both of my economics classes this term.  It is Ceteris Paribus.  It is usually translated as "holding everything else equal"

The funny thing is that there's 3 different ways to pronounce the phrase.

1. Classical Latin pronounces the 'c' as a hard sound.
2. Ecclesiastical Latin pronounces the 'c' as a ch sound.
3. Economic Latin pronounces it as a soft c sound.

Oh yeah, Rome was great.