User:MarkLuc/Classical Turns

Classical Turns is a popular translation and naming resource for the Classical languages (Latin and Ancient Greek). Founded in 2006 and based in Cambridge, Great Britain, Classical Turns exists as the only service that offers assistance not only for renderings into and out of Latin and Ancient Greek but also for translations between these two languages, and that undertakes bespoke compositions on specified topics, in both prose and verse. Classical Turns is also a well-known source for the creation of tattoos in Latin and Greek, a genre that continues to grow in significance. The service, run by a small number of Classical scholars, operates primarily online owing to the infamously lamentable state of English-Latin automatic translation tools that exist and the complete absence of a viable English-Ancient Greek translation tool: it is generally agreed that machine translation still has a long way to develop before being able to tackle languages so heavily inflected as Latin and Greek. Classical Turns is known to have worked with Mattel in the production of an official version of Latin Scrabble, a variant of the game that has previously been played with the traditional board and letters.

Classical Turns claims to have taken its name from a passing comment made by Sir Theodore Martin about translating the poetry of the Roman lyric poet Horace.