Fans of such archaic languages as Aramaic and Mayan have been rewarded by the strange directorial output of Mel Gibson. But my suspicions that Mel may be an amateur linguistics fan have seemingly been proven correct when I learned recently that he has purchased the rights to the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Honestly I am waiting for him to do a historical toga pic with all Etruscan dialogue, or at least "Beowulf" in Old English. I know, I know, he has kind of been beaten to the punch on the Beowulf tip. Maybe at least a remake of "Caligula" in Latin...
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