Latin on LOST

youtube video via Exploring Our Matrix

Language is used by the Others, who need to speak it fluently, because it is "the language of the enlightened."

Is Richard Alpert one of the survivors of the 19th ce shipwreck? (Or am I thinking of a pirate movie/Robinson Crusoe?)

I don't think the second conversation in Latin is available on YT yet. But there is the official video podcast, in which "Elizabeth Mitchell talks about learning Latin":


Yeah, I did find Juliet to be hot when she was speaking Latin, even if it was classical pronunciation with an American accent. (And her 'si placet' was off.)

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