Latin is a dead language 

As dead as dead can be 

It killed the Ancient Romans

…and now it’s killing ME!

This was scrawled inside my battered Latin textbook at school probably by some scruffy, disgruntled “Just William” type character  but the joke was really on him because obviate, and more than 60% of the English lexicon (according to Stacker), derives from Latin (and Greek)

https://stacker.com/stories/3885/50-latin-roots-will-help-you-understand-english-language