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Latin Translation Exercise: "Basket Case" by Green Day

Latin Translation Exercise: "Basket Case" by Green Day

A formative song of the millennial generation, rendered into an ancient tongue.

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Alex Nusky
Sep 10, 2022
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Green Day has been itching at the back of my mind recently. I figure this ought to be clear to anyone who saw me mention them twice in my last article on this topic, but I’m still not confident in creating neologisms. Latin dictionaries tend to use in-text citations as examples for their definitions, and the thought of my lone contribution to history be…

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