@Meaningness Assuming you studied textbooks for ordinaries. Also for Tibetan?
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@simplic10 School courses for ordinaries. Independent reading of textbooks, linguistics books, and Tibetan texts for that.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Was there a lot of verbatim memorization of texts for latter?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@simplic10 Curious why you were asking about this?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness No big deal, I just noticed that I remembered the first part of the Greek "Our Father" (Pater Hemon) despite long time passing1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness and not knowing much more Greek. Figured maybe a function of salience of words as a sort of incantation, plus...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@simplic10 Religious languages somehow seem to have that power. I remember religious fragments of Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon… spooky1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@simplic10 There's probably interesting phoneme shifts involved when languages die except for liturgy.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 That would make sense… know of a specific example? dead languages usually get mispronounced per the local live one, natch1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@simplic10 AFAIK nobody has any idea how Latin was actually pronounced.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@St_Rev @simplic10 That’s not what I was taught 40 years ago… fwiw
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