hello, just out of curiosity, i was wondering how many Go players know lingua latina, and have a decent level like to have conversations or commenting a Go game?

In Barnes and Noble, I found a copy of The Hobbit translated into Latin. It kind of amazed me that anyone would publish it. I can't imagine more than a few thousand selling. Talk about a niche market.

Winnie Ille Pu

There is a Finnish radiostation that broadcasts the daily news in Latin. ICYAI.

i was wondering how many Go players know linguam latinam

Dominus Anulorum in tres partes divisus est.

GRAVISSIMVM inter eos ludi genus est huiusmodi. In alueo trecentarum cellularum plures, ducentis calculis colludunt, e quibus alij candidi sunt, alij atri. His calculis alter alterius calculos procurat in medium alueum relegare, vt reliquis deinde cellulis dominentur: ad extremum qui plures in alueo cellulas sibi subiecit, victor appellatur. Hunc ludum auidissime arripiunt Magistratus, & saepe maximam diei partem ludendo consumunt; nam inter ludendi peritos, horam integram ludus vnus tenet. Qui huius ludi peritus est, tamersi alia nullare insignis fuerit, ab omnibus colitur, & euocatur. Imo nonnulli etiam eos solitis sibiritibus magistros legunt, vt abiis accurate huius ludi rationem ediscant.

I was poking around to see if the 16th c. jesuits reported back on Go. Sadly, it seems Ricci wrote his travelogues in Italian.

I believe that a Go player in the UK (Charles Leedham-Green) is in the process of translating Principia Mathematica into English. (He's working on the Newton one rather than the Russell one.)

Charles is a first rate mathematician. He takes the view that earlier translations have been done by Latin experts rather than mathematicians, and so the existing translations miss a lot Newton's truly ingenious ideas.