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Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Ysenda Maxtone Graham on Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life


Ysenda Maxtone Graham with Merlin Holland

A Latin teacher friend of Ysenda Maxtone Graham helped translate See it. Say it. Sorted.—the UK rail safety campaign encouraging passengers to report suspicious items or behaviour to rail staff or the British Transport Police—for her latest book, Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life.

Ysenda told The Oldie audience that “See it. Say it. Sorted.” translated into Latin, complete with all the correct grammar, imperatives, and participles, comes out as:

Vide. Dic. Rectum.