the_rev Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I have heard from a few people when I say, I know latin, they say who do you talk to latin with. I never respond since I say latin prayers. Anyways, Latin is not dead as people refer to it as. Everything everywhere, most likely derived from Latin. For instance your Pectoral muscle, was name pectoral, since Pectra is Latin for Heart. There are many words derived from latin, thusforth then Latin is not dead, but kept alive!
Seatbelt Blue Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 Sigh. Rev, Latin is dead in that it has none of the following: 1. Native speakers 2. A literary life 3. Spoken popular usage Latin is dead - it has ceased to grow and evolve as language does. It is stagnant. Distant. "Derived from Latin" is not the same as "Latin." The intelligibility rating between, say, French and Italian, both romance langauges, is something like 30%. An Italian and a Frenchman are unable to understand each other. They aren't speaking the same language. Latin survives only as the official language of the Roman Catholic Church and in scientific terminology, but there are no two people in the world with Latin as their primary or even secondary tongue. Latin is as dead as Old Church Slavonic and Aramaic.
Mary's Knight, La Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 seatbelt there is a small town that is still native aramaic speakers so perhaps latin is exactly as dead as aramaic but that's still alive and kicking
homeschoolmom Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I love Latin, too. My daughter will be learning Latin next year... hmmm... maybe I could teach it to her now, get really fluent in it myself and only speak to our baby in Latin... then he could be a native speaker... Hmmm... I'll have to talk this over with my hubby...
Theoketos Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote name='Seatbelt Blue' date='Mar 4 2004, 10:18 PM'] Sigh. Rev, Latin is dead in that it has none of the following: 1. Native speakers 2. A literary life 3. Spoken popular usage Latin is dead - it has ceased to grow and evolve as language does. It is stagnant. Distant. [/quote] 1. The Vatican official Language is Latin (thus there are new words all the time) 2. The Pope writes all his documents, and all the church documents in Latin 3. There are several festavels throught the world were entire towns for weeks will only speak latin, my friends and tell jokes in Latin, speak it all the time to each other. Thus why it may be ill, it is still thriving in pockets. Plus I believe that Romainian is so close that you could speak latin and they would get it...
cmotherofpirl Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I used to listen to a news summary in Latin every week. Its only dead to those who won't learn it.
thicke Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Mar 5 2004, 06:44 AM'] Its only dead to those who won't learn it. [/quote] Everybody mark this day down in your calendars.....I agree with cmom.
cmotherofpirl Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 What. You mean there have been occasions were you don't agree with me? For shame
Ellenita Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote]I used to listen to a news summary in Latin every week.[/quote] Cmom, where?!
cmotherofpirl Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 It was on the radio station called [i]Station of the Nations[/i]
Laudate_Dominum Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I took Latin in school and the teacher was quite fluent. He made us learn conversational latin because he didn't like the traditional approach to teaching latin because he thought it was too artificial, not how we naturally learn a language. So I suppose there are people dispersed about who could speak latin if they wanted to. I also had a friend who composed poetry and wrote stories in latin. That would be cool if it somehow managed to make a come back.
cmotherofpirl Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 (edited) One thing I really enjoyed about the[i] Passion[/i] was listening to the Latin conversations. Edited March 5, 2004 by cmotherofpirl
Laudate_Dominum Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='Mar 5 2004, 08:06 AM'] One thing I really enjoyed about the[i] Passion[/i] was listening to the LAtin conversations. [/quote] Me too, that was so cool. I wish more movies were in Latin.
Adeodatus Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 There's a Latin news programme from Finland here: [url="http://www.yleradio1.fi/zgo.php?z=20031213131686314670"]Nuntii Latini[/url] I love Latin. I just wish I was better at it! I had 2 years of one-on-one coaching in Latin when I first joined the Dominicans. It's a good way to learn.... no one to hide behind, so you learn really quickly. The best bit was reading St Augustine's Confessions in Latin. That alone has to be worth learning the language for.
Laudate_Dominum Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote name='Adeodatus' date='Mar 5 2004, 08:49 AM'] There's a Latin news programme from Finland here: [url="http://www.yleradio1.fi/zgo.php?z=20031213131686314670"]Nuntii Latini[/url] I love Latin. I just wish I was better at it! I had 2 years of one-on-one coaching in Latin when I first joined the Dominicans. It's a good way to learn.... no one to hide behind, so you learn really quickly. The best bit was reading St Augustine's Confessions in Latin. That alone has to be worth learning the language for. [/quote] Oh man, reading Augustine in the original has always been a dream of mine. My problem is that I don't stick with things. I'm sure I've read more books half way through in my life than books that I have actually finished. I've also never persevered with Latin enough to be that good. I'll get side tracked with Greek or something, or a musical instrument. Life is too short I think... I guess in Heaven we'll be able to hang out with St. Augustine so it's no big deal afterall.
cmotherofpirl Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 [quote name='Adeodatus' date='Mar 5 2004, 10:49 AM'] There's a Latin news programme from Finland here: [url="http://www.yleradio1.fi/zgo.php?z=20031213131686314670"]Nuntii Latini[/url] I love Latin. I just wish I was better at it! I had 2 years of one-on-one coaching in Latin when I first joined the Dominicans. It's a good way to learn.... no one to hide behind, so you learn really quickly. The best bit was reading St Augustine's Confessions in Latin. That alone has to be worth learning the language for. [/quote] I think that is it. I knew it was from a northern country.!!
the_rev Posted March 5, 2004 Author Posted March 5, 2004 Well I'm glad a few people people agreed with me! Kyrie eleison
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