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Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement

Posted by Zonk on from the my-brother-made-people-flap-like-a-chicken dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Harvard University celebrated its 356th Commencement on Thursday. It is tradition at Harvard is to have an undergraduate deliver a Latin Salutatory address. This year's speaker, Charles Joseph McNamara, delivered an address all about Star Wars in Latin! TheForce.net has a write-up of the event, and the speaker was really hilarious. He apparently doesn't like Star Wars that much, but it's still awesome. The video is available online, and you too can see him do a Yoda voice and make light-saber motions ... in front of over 30,000 people. The speech is under "Morning Exercises" on the Harvard site. The Latin Oration begins at about 1:09:30."

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  1. ... Hurray for realplayer... by zCyl · · Score: 5, Funny

    An address in a dead language available only in a dead video format. I suppose that should be expected...

  2. Like Shakespeare by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it lost something in the translation from Klingon.

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  3. Re:... Hurray for realplayer... by Ash+Vince · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I am going to start a new religion.

    It will be called The Church of the AntiReal. We will be dedicated to driving a certain dead video format even further into the ground, not for any logical reason mind you, then it wouldn't be a proper religious crusade.

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  4. Obligatory by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Russia consiliae, Lingua Latina TE loquitur!

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