Neo-Latin

Those of you who’ve never heard the term neo-Latin, may be forgiven for thinking it’s a new South American dance craze. If you’re 1 when I tell you it has something to do with the language of Romans, take heart, over the years many classes who have 2 they are not really sure what it is either. Some have 3 that they are so-called 'Late-Latin', written at the end of the Roman Empire. Others have supposed it must have something to do with the middle ages. Or perhaps it’s that pseudo-Latin which my five and seven-year old boys seem to have 4 from the Harry Potter books, useful for spells and curses that they zip one another with makeshift paper ash ones. No, in fact, neo-Latin is more or less the same as the Latin that was written in the 5 world, classical Latin. So, what’s so new about it?